Dec.14

Dec. 14
In the morning I was sick...figures, but eventually we got up and went for brunch. Kwami drove us to the nativity man in Accra so I could pick up the nativity. While on the phone he failed to mention it wasn't finished so we got there to find out we couldn't pick it up. I'm back in Ghana! Haha it was amazing to see his shop and meet him. He was working on sanding my giraffe when we got there. I can't even imagine how many hours are out into making one nativity by hand. He also had a carving of Noah's ark with 15 pairs of animals, and Noah and his wife. I knew instantly my dad would want that so we will get both when we are back in Accra!

We bought pineapple and homegrown bananas from the lady next door. Oh how I've dreamt of fruit from Ghana for so long. Kenny was amazed by the pineapple...but let's be honest who isn't. Later that day we caught a taxi to the temple. We got there around 6 so it was just barely dusk. The temple has beautiful stained glass windows that were designed to look like kente, and lit up at dusk made them even more beautiful. There were even Christmas lights on some of the bushes out front. Not quite like temple square at Christmas, but beautiful all the same. We were the only white people in our temple session, and their skin against the clothes was beautiful. So many things made my eyes well with tears over the space of the next 2 hours. What a beautiful experience to be able to do an endowment session in the temple now.  Afterwords Kenny and I walked around the temple soaking up the beauty. Perfect start to our trip here in Ghana.

After a series of calls we decided to just go the the airport and hope and pray our piece of luggage made it on flight.  Amazingly enough they brought it, and we found it quickly. What a relief. Most of the suitcase was clothes for Ghana, and it also meant we could get to cape early the next morning. I always feel anxious to leave Accra.  As we were leaving the airport I saw president Judd waiting to pick up the missionaries. He is now the Accra Ghana mission president, but a couple of years ago he was my favorite religion professor at BYU. I took Book of Mormon from him, and it was by far one of my favorite religion classes so I was thrilled to see him again, and Ghana of all places.