We will give the blog another go to see if we can get it to upload the pictures any faster. This is on the road into town from our apartment. There are lots of little shops like this all along the road. See the mother with the baby wrapped to her back. They do this until they are about 3 years old. Sometimes the mother carries something on her head as well. The driving in Ghana is very unorganized. They just honk and go. They have very few stop signs (which they ignore) and very few lights. They have round-a-bouts which get extremely congested. You could say that the entire area is one big market place, because there are small shops and stands and people selling things everywhere, but there is a main market circle in the center of Takoradi. It is about 4 SLC blocks in size. It is packed with every kind of food and item that is for sale in this city, you just have to hunt for it, and then buy it because the item or the shop may not be there the next time. This is one of the shop owners little girl. She sits in a basket on the floor while her mother tends the shop.We met the Zone Leader's in Takoradi on Sat. morning so we could meet the Elders and Sisters in their zone and then go out so several of the Branches. When we got the the Chapel Hills meeting house, we discovered that our tail lights had been stolen during the night. The truck has an alarm, but it did not go off. We spent the day getting new tail lights sent from Accra, so we were unable to do much driving, so we did not get out to the Branches. We went to church on Sunday at one of the Takoradi wards. They did not have an organist, so I asked if they would like me to play and they said yes. It was a great experience. The meetings were great, but they do parts of their meetings in Fonte (which is their native language) so we miss parts. After meeting, some of the youth in the Ward talked to us about learning to play, so we are going to set up a time when we can start to teach them the keyboard. The Church has a great program for those who are willing to learn music. There were 5 or 6 that were interested. Today was the Elders and Sisters from both Zones (24) joint "P" day, so they held an activity over at the stake center. We met the missionaries (22) there and took them lunch that we had made. We had a great visit with them and I think they enjoyed lunch, of chicken salad sandwiches, potato chips, cookies and drinks. Some of them had not had potato chips since they left the states and others from Africa had not had potato chips or chicken salad sandwiches.
This is a picture of Daniel (and wife) and the twins (and mother) that were baptized last week. (it would not download to the blog last time), and the ZL's from Secondi. That about takes care of our activities for the week. We still have a few leaks to be fixed and a couple of other things in the apartment that have to be done, but we are making progress. Like we said before, Ghana works on a very layed back time schedule, and a very non-modern process of fixing things. Till later, Elder and Sister Bybee 
