Week of 20250223 - Ghana Week 50: Plan of Salvation; Septic Tank Dunk!; Fosu; Fosu South; Jukwa
= Sunday, speakers related to our lives the Good Samaritan parable and Moses receiving help from subordinates to hold up his rod. In class, Steph reviewed God's plan for us to learn from our mistakes; repent and be strengthened by the Savior's atonement for us; die and continue to learn and perhaps teach others; and eventually be resurrected to have perfected bodies and live in a kingdom with others who have become the kind of people we have become, our goal being to live with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ again. I spoke on keeping the Sabbath. Steph spoke again on the Word of Wisdom.
= Monday, the weekly meeting had pushed to Tuesday. So, we worked from home.
= Tuesday, the meeting was later in the day than usual. It was just past 6 when we got home. Recent wind had broken a banana tree and the bananas burst as if squeezed. I stepped up on the septic tank to get a better look and perhaps a better photo.
= Without warning, the cover fell to pieces. Then I was in the pit. The water was over my head, but I swam to the surface. I smiled because I was safe. I called for Steph, who put a ladder into the pit for me to stand on. I was still too low to climb out, but the Elders from next door lifted me out. I could have died or been severely injured, but I was fine. My glasses stayed on my face and my camera remained clutched in my hand.
= My sense of smell disappeared for a day. The polytank water lasted just long enough for me to shampoo three times and shower thoroughly before it finally cut off (after weeks of using water frugally). Jug pumps for washing dishes and personal cleaning using jugs of water arrived today! My driving permit was still legible and my Medicare card wasn't affected. Some of the spare camera batteries survived. We gave new meaning to the term "money laundering".
= You can hurt yourself doing anything at all. Be careful, and don’t worry. Bad things will still happen, but if you ask, God will help you to cope with life.
= Wednesday, my sense of smell returned when the mat outside the front door was picked up to clean it; it had water trapped from when I had stood before entering the house the night before. We dropped off items in Fosu. In Fosu South, we delivered a floor fan and another item and picked up a non-working fan for possible repair.
= Thursday, we worked from home; I had neglected to line up an appointment for an apartment visit.
= Friday, we inspected an apartment in Jukwa, then came home early in case a crew came to cap the septic tank. The crew didn't show.
= Saturday, we worked and prepped for Sunday.
To church
In Jesus' Name
Work on it where it quits.
Still Brighting
Notice where he's standing. Also notice the objects to his left. Every road needs drainage ditches; you just need ingenuity to cope with them.
Well-dressed
Football {Soccer}
It doesn't have to be level.
Why drag it? It didn't appear to be moving.
Eggs. (We've see multiple trays of eggs stacked on each other, carried.)
Bags of water sachets.
Some kids get carried.
Recent rain
Children seem small to be walking.
This is where you carry: on the head.
Notice the cutlass in her right hand.
Something is being weighed. Oranges?
Learning.
Learn by watching and doing.
On his head, he's carrying a flat item about the size of a clipboard.
Stopped
Whatever it is, carry it on your head.
Going around the "stove". Steph is wearing sneakers that match her dress fabric; so, she's being extra-careful.
Different destinations
Making a point
We die and continue to learn. After we are resurrected, there are multiple kingdoms of glory that differ based on how we've been willing to live.
- In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [John 14:2]
- There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. [1 Corinthians 15:41]
Normally the class is much larger; I didn't see how this went today.
I'm surprised that this tree is still standing.
They are gathering firewood. Of note is the poster. This individual died in 2018, but services were held in his honor 10-16 February 2025.
What a friend [we have in Jesus]
This person is heading away from town.
Grave preparation
They moved before we got there.
He passed us and is ready to pass again.
You don't need a shop to sell.
Positioning blocks as if for a wall. We'll watch this space.
Nyame Tease {God Lives}
Stairway without rails; nice suit; ladies carry.
The sign says Maa Pee Trading Enterprise
pee = {exactly} or {just [only]}
Football
Football
Highly Favoured
Cattle minding their own business
They are usually skin and bones, but they are big.
Being careful
Psalm 109 Enterprise
30-31 I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude. For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Machine Clinic
rugs
Paying the driver in the middle of the intersection
Walking with kids
This is life as usual for many.
Peace and Love
Egg salad
Jack Mackerel
Looking around
Checking mesh put in place to keep squirrels out
This time, we bought a case of larger ramen packets.
Community water is flowing "small", but not enough yet to reach the outlet of the ground tank.
Colorful
But small, perhaps the length of my shoe from nose to tail. He's outdoors.
One of our banana plants, too tall to cut the fruit from, broke and the bananas spat out.
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I stepped onto the septic tank to get a closer look; I was standing on a square cement cap like the one on the background.
After a moment, without warning, I was inside the tank; the lid had disintegrated. The water was over my head, but I swam to the surface, still holding my camera, grabbed the hole to the next compartment so as not to have to tread water, and and called for Steph. At first, she couldn't find me. Then Steph brought a folding ladder that I stood on as if on the top of a stepladder, but I was still up to my waist in water and too low from the edge to raise myself. *I'm on the ladder in this photo.* She went next door for help. (Yes, I asked her to take photos; I don't plan to repeat this experience.)
Elders Vasco and Whitlock live in an apartment in the same compound. Elder Vasco cleared junk out of the way so they could work, and then Elder Whitlock and Elder Vasco pulled me out so my knees rested on solid cement.
I'm out, unharmed (except for a few scrapes). Elder Vasco is in the background.
And that's Elder Whitlock.
Money laundering; document drying
The item on the jug is a jug pump; it's easier than washing items one-handed while you pour from a pitcher with your other hand.
Sister Dimmick provided Command Strips to put the map back up.
Very busy
Double-height
The vehicle quit right there.
The lady in the background is a mannequin.
Men carry, too.
Aseda nka Nyame {Thanks be to God}
People move goods.
Good Master
Weighing palm oil fruit clusters
Nana Koom Affordable Caskets
Living life
Nice place
Heroclean [Heraclean], requiring the strength of Hercules
Palm oil fruit clusters
Still - Hustlers never sleep.
Note the American Eagle logo.
Busy spot. Taxi stand at left.
Independent, blessedly
Flags from U.K, U.S., Ghana, and possibly Canada
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We produce healthy day-old chicks.
Motorcycle carrying a bicycle
- {A good helper is God} [ne with falling pitch]
- {A good helper and God} [ne with rising pitch]
The written language is not specific by itself and tries to accommodate Asante Twi (widely spoken), Akuapem (similar to Asante, a target for translating scriptures) and Fante (less-widely spoken): one reason perhaps why Ghana has chosen English as its official language.
The purpose of some machinery is beyond my knowledge.
Prince of Peace
[You see Him in the upper corners of the sign.]
The bottom-right corner says..
Opposite Latter Day Saint Church
Indeed, it is across the street from the Fosu South Stake Center.
Fake lover's will never succeed
Good advice indeed.
We're parked on the driveway to the Fosu South Stake Center [a large chapel]. The gap between the fence and the next building over gets a fair amount of traffic and is the route we have followed on foot to reach a missionary apartment.
A gazebo in a graveyard? Logical if so.
Nudwin Pigs - Mill your maize and rice here
Bisa Ewurade {Ask the Lord}
I don't photograph artwork in shops, but at this low resolution you can get a very tiny hint of what is available in tourist traps (and sometimes places that offer help in getting a passport, etc.): realistic art, exaggerated art, and modern art. I'm surprised to see it here.
Heart-shaped headstone toward the back of this view. Portraits.
Steps big enough to sit on
Nhyira nka boafo {Blessed is the helper}
Ewuardze behwe wo {The Lord will smite you}
The red van says "Jesus is Lord"
The dead are near us in spirit.
Yɛnka Nkyerɛ Wo {Let's Tell You} Boutique
Mmoa Hia {Animals Need} Enterprise
[There is no doubt; this is really what it means. Odd to use for a place that seems to sell beverages.]
It's not clear what the medal device is.
Nhyira {Blessing} Phones Repairs
Robed men usually expose one shoulder; he has not.
Some of these caskets are exposed to the weather, and there's no sign nearby to try to sell them.
Isaiah 41:18 - I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Let my people go
Nyame Nye Me Boafo {God Is My Helper}
Grace decoration and cake making centre
I guess so!
Daakye Asem {Future Word}
[I've seen this one before.]
This is the lid I didn't stand on. I should have noticed that these lids were thin.
This spare camera battery didn't make it. I left it in its wet case too long.
Color ran from new blouses (but didn't bother the other clothes or themselves).
Missionaries from the "big house" next door.
Buy an aboboyaa or KK here.
Wide load for an aboboyaa
The last kilometers for delivery
Same fabric, but doesn't look like a school outfit
Busier than on Sundays, when we pass here weekly.
Activity at the square. The sedan says Blessing.
Put cash on your phone (for calls; for Internet; or to buy things).
We can't do that; we use mission phones. (Our personal phones aren't smart enough.)
They didn't notice each other.
Every meeting needs chairs.
Logs big enough for small seagoing canoes
Empties, to fill with water
Texting, heading for the Mfuom apartment.
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The gate near Steph's feet keeps goats from wandering into the hallway. The darker opening to the right is where the landlord lives.
(Steph received a medical call.)
Marketing near Aponsem Square
She died last year. She will be buried March 1st.
Easy walk between the STC bus station and KFC
Light purple, perhaps, on this tree.
Definitely pink on this shrub.
Ready for Friday night Netflix..
But it was still early; so, we listened to Sunday on Monday (scripture discussion) first.
Loosely covered scene of the accident.
Activity
Looking at the phone
Machine Clinic
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