The new Ghana Kumasi Mission officially began on July 1, 2012, and our new Mission President Holmes arrived with his wife from their home in South Africa. He called for all of the missionaries to come to Kumasi (President Thayne's most unfavorite place) to meet them and have an introductory conference. The new senior mission couple, the Palmers from Arizona, have also arrived and will be working in the mission office.
We took three of the Sunyani missionaries with us in our little truck, and put the remaining seven on the Metro (bus). The drive was horrible as always and uneventful--just long, hectic, and the usual chaos. We met the Zolls and the bus from Sunyani at the Metro Mass Station in the middle of Kumasi, loaded all of the Elders into the backs of both of our trucks, and drove to the stake center.
The conference lasted a few hours. The Holmes were very nice. The microphone didn't work and the building was filthy. It made us even more determined to have all the meetinghouses in Sunyani cleaned and in pristine condition. We took pictures, had a light lunch (the usual fried rice), and headed back to our little Sunyani as we wanted to arrive home before dark.
The new mission will of course be going through some growing pains in the next little while, but it will truly be better. We will miss the Shulzes but we will have a Mission Home and a Mission President about three hours away instead of eight hours and hopefully we will be able to have better communication and assistance. We know this will be a great step forward for Kumasi and Sunyani and the area we serve here in central Ghama--West Africa.
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