Elder Badoo, Elder Fefegula and Elder Wheelock.  Elder Badoo and Elder Wheelock are the AP's.  Elder Fefegula is the other Elder I helped get his US Visa.  We are waiting on his Mozambique visa and hopefully he will be able to go to the Provo MTC.  He is temporarily assigned to our mission while we wait for his Visa. 

 9 November missionaries from Sierra Leone going to the MTC.  Elder Pessima, Elder Turay, Sisetr Bangura,Elder Katta Elder Newton, Elder Safoi, Me and Brent.  Below is Brent and I with Elder Newton.  He is one of the missionaries I helped get his US Visa.  Now we are waiting for travel to get his Mozambique Visa.  He will start at the Ghana MTC and hopefully be able to go to Provo to learn Portuguese.  He is a wonderful young man and has been a joy to work with. 

 11 November 2017 Our investigator was baptized.  Her name is Salumata Salina Conteh.  She is the sister we talked to on the street outside of our church building and we told her we were going to church and she said she would come with us.  Elder Cluff and Elder Amoah-Baafi pictured with her below taught her and she got baptized.  Elder Amoah-Baafi is holding her little boy.  She lost her husband to Ebola. 

 Sister Carly gave me some fabric last year for my Birthday and we had matching skirts made.  I had to get a picture before they left.  They returned home 12 November 2017.  I really miss her. 

Elder and Sister Carly, Ali Kargbo, Me and Brent outside the office the Friday before the Carley's left.  They will be missed. 

2 November 2017 Eating supper at "The Hub" a restaurant connected with a hotel.  This is our good-by dinner for the Carley's.  They return home on 12 November.  We will miss them!!!  It was a lovely evening, good food, good weather and wonderful company. 

More pictures of birds for Mom.  Last week there were around 50 big hawks swooping around the mission office.  They usually stay up really high but this day they were low and right outside the window.  I went outside and took a picture of them.  This happened one other time last year.  The small dots you see were small swallows flying around with the hawks.  I'm not sure what the ritual is, but it was fun to watch.  It lasted about 30 minutes and then they left. 

 We have beautiful sunsets here.  Not every night but often.  These were taken out the window of our apartment. 

 George Pratt is one of our guards in our compound.  This is he and his wife, Elizabeth and their new baby. They are so tickled to get her.  Elizabeth had another baby about a year ago, but she passed away a few days after she was born. 

                                    She really is a beautiful baby and has a ton of black curly hair

 17 October 2017 Transfer day.  We didn't receive any new missionaries or send any missionaries home.  That is a first since we arrived.  Sister Soja was here though and we had our picture together.  She is heading to Makeni.  I do love this Sister.  She is the sweetest gal and a wonderful missionary. 

19 October 2017  SL missionaries leaving for the MTC.  Elder Mustapha, Sister Dauda (from Kissy Stake) Sister Conteh, Elder Bayoh, Elder Allieu, me and Brent.  The missionaries from Kissy Stake still come and leave with our missionaries from the mission. 

 A couple of days ago I went out to empty our wet garbage, which is the peelings and I just dump the bucket in the banana grove for compost and then go to a faucet out back and rinse my bucket.  I went to step off the sidewalk and saw this toad just on the edge of the grass.  He was pretty big and he is the first one I have seen here.  Kind of neat looking.  I thought the grandsons would like this. 

 Coming home from church last Sunday.  People ride in trucks like this all the time here.  It would be illegal at home, but it is really common here. 

 Also coming home from church last Sunday, we saw these men doing cement work on this building.  They were passing bowls of cement from one to another and the last man would put the cement where they needed it to go.  That is how they do cement work here. 

 Sister Carly with some kind of a fruit.  This was given to her and Elder Carly for a Thank you.  Don't you love her African skirt?  Behind her to the right you can see our snowboard guy.  Elder Kay drew this when he first arrived, about a year ago and we have kept it.  I will take a better picture of it this week and post it.