Thanksgiving Week

This week started out busy with a zone meeting where President and Sister Shulz, along with the assistance to the president came to the meeting.  The President interview each of the missionaries while Sister Shulz and the assistants did training.  We are also preparing for the christmas devotional where the entire mission will be getting together.  Each zone is to present some sort of talent.  The Swedru Zone is going along with Sister Ivie's suggestion to sing "Holding Hands Around the World.  We are substituting pictures of our Elders and Sisters that will be shown while they are sing their song.

Now comes the Thanksgiving fun.  Before we left to travel to the Mission Home we purchased enough chicken breasts, potatoes for each of the apartments to cook up a thanksgiving meal.  Most of the missionaries in the zone are from the US, and it was a treat to share with their African companions and American tradition.  

We arrived at the Mission Home on Wednesday afternoon and helped with the preparations for the big feast.  This is Sister Bybee, Sister Shulz and Sister Ivie

Wednesday evening President Shulz bought  Pizza and we all enjoyed a meal together.  Here we are preparing for the big golf game of cards.  Golf comes into the mix because you play 9 rounds.

Sister Ivie, Sister Crittenden, Elder Crittenden, Then President and Sister Bybee, and President Shulz.

After the card game we watched a Christmas movies in keeping with the Shulz family tradition.

Thursday brought on the big load of food preparation.  The Bybee's had secured a couple of turkeys and we had all of the other thanksgiving dishes, including a new version of monkey bread, it became our African version.  Now if I was really helpful I would include the very perfect picture of Marilee's monkey bread.  Everyone claimed the bread was great even a little crusty.  They were all so nice.

We also had the Lybbert family joins us. They are in Cape Coast working at the Cape Coast University. They are from Davis California.  One of their good friends was visiting form the US and had not expected a full traditional thanksgiving feast.

After dinner Sister Ivie got into the game of football in the back yard. See found out there is proper way to kick the ball and not break your toenails.  It will be better next time. The Brethren were all trying to get BYU/Norte Dame game to play.  Internet was too slow and never did get to watch it.

That didn't slow the backyard game down at all.

And then again in the evening we watched another Christmas movies and had pie and ice cream.  Both a real treat.  They do spoil the Senior Couple.

This is a great video of the kids below marching through town.  Someday I may figure out how to get it to work.

These kids were marching through one of the villages as be were traveling to Cape Coast for Thanksgiving.  Coming from the other direction was a different school with different colors and they looked like approaching armies and marching and swinging their arms.  Of course most of the kids were three or four years old.  They were having such a good time.  And of course Sister Ivie had to get out of the car, take their pictures and wave, and they all wave back, including the teachers.