tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74392333880124659522024-02-18T22:58:01.410-08:00Randall Missions and Family Adventures"A man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race." --Joseph Smith--Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-22229271509587658072013-03-12T23:02:00.001-07:002013-03-12T23:04:53.867-07:00A Visit from Rose<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRverrj1cueWWtNAe5TQpnW91OjcjXP-OfdakytHW7c54rmysM17HDGeICKgbODOXlyqEqfdJZHffd2-TGgKBRPOjZLPQOCSnEqX8o3qLWocRL14IYczHfsCMhna420xuoP9pJiANZhy4/s1600/DSC03695.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRverrj1cueWWtNAe5TQpnW91OjcjXP-OfdakytHW7c54rmysM17HDGeICKgbODOXlyqEqfdJZHffd2-TGgKBRPOjZLPQOCSnEqX8o3qLWocRL14IYczHfsCMhna420xuoP9pJiANZhy4/s400/DSC03695.JPG" width="400" /></a><br />
I saw Rose Wallace at church on Sunday 10 March and she said, "I will come and see you at the office on Tuesday." True to her word, she came and she had her darling little boy, Jeffrey Moroni Wallace, with her. This little boy was named after Elder Holland. Notice how beautiful his mother is, too! She has such beautiful braids woven into her hair. <br />
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Jeffrey Moroni Wallace 3 months<br />
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Rose is the Primary President in the Freetown Ward and her husband, Markus, is the bishop. Rose is also the self-appointed Primary Music Leader because she understands how important Primary music is. I spoke to her about how things are going and she said it is still challenging because her counselors are not consistent about coming. She said she and Markus have done a lot of visiting members in their ward to encourage them to come to church and they have had some success. They have had some "neighborhood Family Home Evening lessons" and those have been well received, too. Rose and Markus are "kingdom builders."</div><div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-56042972643209797972013-02-04T20:52:00.002-08:002013-02-04T20:52:40.036-08:00Our BlogFor those of you who follow our blog, you may begin to be confused as we start to post items that don't appear to be in order. That is because we are in the "repentance" phase of our blog. We are trying to catch up posts from the past in order to have a complete view of our mission. Unfortunately, our "repentance" will be out there for the world to see, but we hope you will enjoy our mission in review. Our daughter, Valerie, promised, as a Christmas gift to us before we left on our mission, to get our blog ready to publish. We are trying to do our part to give her something with which she can work. Thank you for your patience!Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-66674941657899035452013-02-01T17:00:00.000-08:002013-02-13T22:19:02.019-08:00Freetown Sierra Leone Stake Temple Trip<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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The saints know who they are, what God expects them to do, they are happy to do it and to let others know about it.<br />
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Many preparations are made including a quick bath for the baby in the foreground.</div>
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The water in the jugs will be used for bathing. The water in the sachets on the right will be used for drinking. So many other preparations have been made including passports for all, yellow fever shots for all, and paperwork to allow the bus and the passengers to cross the borders into many other countries. </div>
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The baby on her back is only one month old. He will grow up in the covenant and knowing only life as a member of the Church. This day will change many lives for eternity.</div>
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Pure joy at being able to attend the temple!</div>
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There is luggage under the tarps and this is the final step in preparation.</div>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com0Freetown, Sierra Leone8.4841459999999991 -13.2286699999999668.358497 -13.390031499999965 8.6097949999999983 -13.067308499999966tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-82789968471251074102013-02-01T13:04:00.000-08:002013-02-04T20:46:26.389-08:00New Mission Home<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On Friday, 11 January 2013, we came to our office to discover a huge trackhoe there to begin the demolition of the building that has housed four sets of missionaries. We have been anticipating this day for several months. The missionaries had moved out a couple of months ago. This is an exciting day because it is the beginning of a new mission home and senior couple apartments. It is ironic that all of this "groundbreaking" occurred just one day before the official groundbreaking. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nineteen days later all of the big beautiful trees that used to cover the area next to the mission office were down--the price of progress. </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com0Freetown, Sierra Leone8.4841459999999991 -13.2286699999999668.358497 -13.390031499999965 8.6097949999999983 -13.067308499999966tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-67778218614478369282013-01-12T10:00:00.000-08:002013-02-04T12:57:15.360-08:00Groundbreaking for Mission Home and Freetown Stake Center<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsnu_HbYRcCeWKWgCerfZLKeEG9kZmfbVAIdeA-_PG7KB_jE3kwBywj6dsMVU-rL_W-TCVJ3A7DTZAWgRmgpJtqLy9_V0VgdwaR4lkp7uilcLpjmHiKUbEOsG6rapzeOo0qBBTh9hQ9Fk/s1600/DSC03508.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsnu_HbYRcCeWKWgCerfZLKeEG9kZmfbVAIdeA-_PG7KB_jE3kwBywj6dsMVU-rL_W-TCVJ3A7DTZAWgRmgpJtqLy9_V0VgdwaR4lkp7uilcLpjmHiKUbEOsG6rapzeOo0qBBTh9hQ9Fk/s400/DSC03508.JPG" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">On 12 January 2013 two groundbreaking ceremonies were held in the Sierra Leone Freetown Mission and the Freetown Sierra Leone Stake. Before the actual ceremony a news conference was held, sponsored and organized by Sister Mariatu Browne who is the country director for Public Affairs for the church. She invited Elder and Sister Burns to come and tell about many of the humanitarian projects they are involved in, which include wells in many places, supplies and furnishings for a polio orphanage, and some springboxes to capture and dispense spring water. They are also helping with a wheelchair fitting and distribution as well as a neonatal training program. The media was so attentive and asked some very good questions. President Patrick Swarray, Jr. fielded questions as well as President Richard Roggia. </span></h3>
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President Roggia wields a shovel in the groundbreaking for the new mission home. It will be located right next door to the mission office in a nice large compound which also includes a church building which houses four wards. It should be completed by September, a few months after the new mission president arrives in July. The mission home will also have two apartments for senior couples located below it.</h3>
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This is the large lot on which will be built the new Freetown Sierra Leone Stake Center. It will also house the Congo Cross ward, with the hope that more wards will follow in the future.</h3>
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President Roggia and President Swarray shared the honor of digging some of the first shovels of dirt for the new stake center for the Church's 3000th stake, the Freetown Sierra Leone Stake. They have been partners in the progress of the church here for the past 2 1/2 years. President Swarray was called as District President in August of 2011.</h3>
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After the groundbreaking for the new chapel, many of the media representatives were invited to tour the new Hill Station Chapel which is under construction. The rock you see in the foreground is a tiny representation of the rock which completely covered and filled the lot where this new chapel is built. Some of the boulders were taller than a man. The workers build fires on top of them so they can be broken into pieces and hauled away. The groundbreaking for this building was held over a year ago. It has been a painstaking process to clear the ground enough to build the building.</h3>
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This is a good view of the construction and you can see our two trusty mission vans in the background. The gray one is old and will soon be retired. The white one was purchased for Elder Holland's visit in February 2012 and has hauled many missionaries on transfers.</h3>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com1Freetown, Sierra Leone8.4841459999999991 -13.2286699999999668.358497 -13.390031499999965 8.6097949999999983 -13.067308499999966tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-23796772984727911632013-01-01T21:10:00.000-08:002013-01-07T21:11:50.498-08:00New Year's Day Hike<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We met this little boy at the first of our hike. He is carrying his breakfast. The sticks in the background are used in construction to provide support for cement floors while the cement hardens. They also build scaffolding with them</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We found some beautiful gardens growing in the valley close to a small creek. The creek will run until March so the people are growing all they can until then.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you look closely, you will see the bananas growing on this tree. Many of the banana trees look as "messy" as this one. The old leaves are allowed to drop around the base to compost and provide nourishment to the tree.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are many unusual fruits that grow in Africa.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking a moment to relax and enjoy the scenery.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A home dating back to the colonial period. This house had wood siding. The newer African construction is all done with cement blocks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Children pause for a "snap." They always want to see what it looks like after you take it. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We found the children playing near this slide, the only piece of playground equipment at St. Andrews School across from the church.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is newer African construction. They are quite skilled at building with concrete. They love their brightly colored homes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A beautiful cabbage patch growing alongside equally beautiful lettuce. We are grateful for gardens such as these that provide the produce we enjoy her in Sierra Leone.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A big thank you to our good friends, the Lauritzens, who took us on our New Year's Day hike. </td></tr>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-42762967723814236732012-12-29T14:00:00.000-08:002013-01-08T20:52:48.513-08:00Young Single Adult Activity<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were invited by the Young Single Adults from the Lumley Branch to attend the activity they sponsored for the YSA's of the whole stake. Marian Campbell, who was on the organizing committee, asked us to judge their "quiz competition." She had written some questions about the Church and its doctrine. Each branch who attended had an opportunity to answer the questions. We kept track of whose turn it was and kept score. <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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We awarded the certificate for highest points to a young
man from Goderich Ward and the certificate for the “Best Quizzer”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to a young 11-year-old girl, Virginia, from Congo Cross Ward, who
answered 3 questions—all of them fairly difficult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She quoted 1 Nephi 3:17 for one of the
answers! The YSA’s had an opportunity to bear their testimonies and then they
had a dance, complete with loud music out in the courtyard of the Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We left just after the dancing started, but
we could tell they were all ready to dance and celebrate.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our young friend, Marian Campbell, who helped organize the activity. Not long after this activity she received her mission call to the Nigeria Enugu Mission. She will be the first sister in the Freetown Sierra Leone Stake to serve at age 20.</td></tr>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com0Lumley, Freetown, Sierra Leone8.454894 -13.2765440000000588.329245 -13.437905500000058 8.5805429999999987 -13.115182500000058tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-69829717090750478572012-12-25T23:21:00.000-08:002013-02-05T20:35:17.620-08:00Christmas in Sierra Leone<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We decided to do something for Christmas in Sierra Leone that we could not do at home. We decided to have a barbecue. Elder Lauritzen offered to be our chef. The Roggias had brought a barbecue grill with them and had only used it one other time, the Christmas after they arrived, so we asked to borrow it. Elder Lauritzen filled it with the local charcoal that the locals cook on and it performed beautifully.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hamburgers are not traditional Christmas dinner fare, but lots of things are different here in Sierra Leone, including that water tank you see in the background. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is our happy group, including Sister Cathy Burns, Elder Ron Burns, Sister Marlene Lauritzen and Elder Mike Laurizen. We had hamburgers, potato salad, deviled eggs, pasta salad and lemon bars, coconut cookies and ice cream for dessert.</td></tr>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-63153545243329821702012-12-24T19:00:00.000-08:002013-02-05T20:34:32.984-08:00Christmas Eve with Basma and Nadia<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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We were invited by our landlord, Mohammed Basma, and his wife, Nadia to have dinner with them on Christmas Eve. It was a lovely occasion. Nadia cooked most of the day to prepare our food. We had three different kinds of meat, including some whole fish, all of it prepared so well. There were some Lebanese vegetables, some hummus and Lebanese flatbread as well. We enjoyed some lovely pastries and ice cream for dessert. Best of all, Basma, who is Lebanese, but who was born here in Sierra Leone, told us a lot about the history of Sierra Leone and some of the progress that is being made. We discovered that he is a good resource for people to help us, such as a good mechanic to fix our cars. He lives next door to us and has helped the Church find properties to rent for apartments and chapels for many years. He is Muslim, but is a good "friend to the Church."<br />
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com0Freetown, Sierra Leone8.4841459999999991 -13.2286699999999668.358497 -13.390031499999965 8.6097949999999983 -13.067308499999966tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-79035492421832471772012-12-20T13:00:00.000-08:002013-02-05T20:57:48.936-08:00A Visit with the Haws<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
We had a visit from a couple serving in Ghana on 18-20 December 2013. They are Elder Greg and Sister Debi Haws. They are assigned as auditors and they travel around to each of the ten countries in the Africa West Area and train the local auditors to conduct the audits of the church units. They will see a lot of West Africa before their mission is over. We love meeting new couples and the Haws were no exception. We enjoyed a lovely dinner with them at Country Lodge and had a nice visit in the two days they were here in Sierra Leone. We took these"snaps" on Lumley beach on our way to the hovercraft which took them to the airport.<br />
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com0Lumley Beach Road, Freetown, Sierra Leone8.4746752 -13.283310499999978.4118542 -13.363991499999971 8.5374962 -13.20262949999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-92090195567507695702012-12-16T16:00:00.000-08:002013-02-06T23:12:55.456-08:00"Primary Day"<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sunday, 16 December, 2013
was what the members were calling “Primary Sunday.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a tradition in the Freetown District
(now Freetown Stake) to have all of the Children’s Sacrament Meeting Presentations
on the same Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have been serving
for several weeks in the Belliar Park Branch (now Belliar Park Ward) and so I
decided to try to attend all four sacrament meeting presentations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We started at 8:30 with the Freetown
Ward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had a simple program but it
was beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two young girls gave
talks (probably at least 5 minutes each).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One of their Primary teachers spoke and then they had a group of about seven
children sing two Christmas Primary songs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At 10:30 we attended the Dwarzak Ward presentation and it was picture
perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was so proud of Sister
Pieh-Sharkeh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had asked me how to
organize the program and I had shown her how to do it, but she had written it
all herself and handed out all the parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Each child had about three speaking parts and the Primary as a whole
sang six of the eight songs for the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many of those songs they had learned just in the last six weeks because
Sister Pieh-Sharkeh had not known before what the Children’s Sacrament Meeting
presentation entails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has been a
member less than a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She spoke at
the end of the presentation in a well-prepared talk, praising the children and
encouraging parents to teach their children the gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop Oneil closed the meeting with a
wonderful address thanking the Primary leaders, but especially Sister
Pieh-Sharkah. At 12:30 I attended the Belliar Park Ward Children’s sacrament
meeting presentation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were about
four children with parts to say, then two children with well-written talks
prepared and then the children sang five songs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was well-done and I was so proud of Sister Charlie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She gave a wonderful talk at the end
highlighting many of the gospel principles she has taught the children this
year in sharing time (she has taught the Valiant Class and taught Sharing Time
and Singing Time all on her own this past year; she has a counselor who teaches
the CTR class.) Bishop Sesay spoke at the end praising her and her counselor
and saying that he has seen changes in his own daughter this past year and
knows that the Primary leaders have played a big part in those changes.</span><br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dwarzak Ward Primary before their Children's Sacrament Meeting Presentation. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dwarzak Ward Primary </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dwarzak Ward Primary Leaders</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This girl and the one below both helped direct the music for Dwarzak Ward during the Children's Sacrament Meeting Presentation</td></tr>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com0Freetown, Sierra Leone8.4841459999999991 -13.2286699999999668.358497 -13.390031499999965 8.6097949999999983 -13.067308499999966tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-82981930475179138552012-12-15T07:00:00.000-08:002013-02-07T13:49:18.206-08:00On Our Walk<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This woman is carrying a building block on her head. This is a common sight near any building under construction.</td></tr>
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We walk every morning, six days a week for about 40 minutes. We walk up around the American Embassy. Most mornings it is too dark to take good pictures, but on Saturday mornings we go a little later. These are some pictures we took on our morning walk.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Adama plaiting her daughter, Zainab's, hair. She has another daughter, Mariama, and a son, Ibrahim. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is Zainab's happy, smiling face!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this is Mariama.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can carry anything on your head in Sierra Leone.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just had to have a snap of this little beauty.</td></tr>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com0Leicester Peak, Sierra Leone8.4497222 -13.224722199999974-17.0723123 -54.533316199999973 33.9717567 28.083871800000026tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-2629213027389716382012-12-11T21:41:00.000-08:002013-02-07T21:45:02.932-08:00Christmas "Carolers"<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
They have an interesting twist on the traditional Christmas carolers in Sierra Leone. A few days before they plan to carol or play (if it is a band) they drop off a letter announcing when they will be coming by. This informs you that they will come to entertain, but it is also understood that you will hopefully have a little money available to them. This band followed that procedure. They were affiliated with the police. The Lauritzens invited them into the compound to play and they were actually quite good. We enjoyed it so much and it really brought the Christmas spirit. (They are standing just inside the gate of our compound.) Both couples gave them a little money for their performance--when in Sierra Leone, do as the Sierra Leoneans. <br />
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com0Freetown, Sierra Leone8.4841459999999991 -13.2286699999999668.358497 -13.390031499999965 8.6097949999999983 -13.067308499999966tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-3256028504974964962012-12-02T21:28:00.000-08:002012-12-28T22:23:41.925-08:00Freetown Sierra Leone Stake Creation<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The weekend of the stake creation was a time to gather with old and new friends. We met, for the first time, Elder and Sister Kirkham who are serving in Liberia. We email back and forth to each other about mission concerns, but had never met face to face. Markus and Rose Wallace are our good friends here in Freetown. Markus was ordained a high priest and called to be a bishop. Rose had her baby five days later and they named him Jeffrey Moroni Wallace. Elder Holland had Rose stand in the meeting and pointed out that she had waited to have her baby so she could be there for the stake creation. Elder Holland announced that his birthday was the next day and if the baby was born then, he encouraged them to name him Jeffrey. Jeffrey Moroni doesn't share the same birthday, but he does share the same name.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">President and Sister Roggia, Sister and Elder Dickson, Africa West Area President, and Elder Freebody Mensah, Area Seventy. Note the beautiful transfer board that Sister Lauritzen designed for President Roggia's office. Elder Dickson had just honored the couples by telling us in advance that the Freetown Sierra Leone Stake would become the 3000th stake of the church. It was a secret we were happy to keep until Elder Holland made the announcement.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The hovercraft coming in with Elder and Sister Holland. Note that dog in the foreground. He stayed there until the very last minute. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because the hovercraft rides on a layer of air it can come right up on shore on this cement pad, but it always blows a big cloud of sand ahead of it. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">With five of the seven couples in our mission gathered for the conference, it was an opportunity to socialize and rejoice together with President and Sister Roggia. We met at the Mamba Point restaurant. Elder and Sister Schlehuber had arrived for this dinner and added the fifth couple. They serve in Bo where there are not any restaurants like this. Elder Schlehuber said the next day that he dreamt all night about eating yummy food in a good restaurant.</span></td></tr>
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Elder Holland and Elder Dickson with the new Freetown Sierra Leone Stake Presidency--Abibu Charles, 1st Counselor, President Patrick Swarray, Jr, Stake President, and Theophilus Minnah, second counselor. An article in the Church News appeared in the afternoon after the stake creation saying, "A historic milestone was reached today (Sunday, Dec. 2) with the creation of the 3,000th stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve organized the Freetown Sierra Leone Stake, the first stake in this nation in western Africa.'It is part of the latter-day miracle, evidence of our "marvelous work and a wonder" that the Church has grown to the point where its 3,000th stake is in far-off Sierra Leone,' Elder Holland said to the Church News. 'What is particularly poignant for me is not only that this historic stake is created in a distant land for a people who have only relatively recently had the gospel brought to them but it is also created in a war-torn and tragic land where there has been so much bloodshed, so much violence and vice in an earlier time.'"<br />
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On a personal note, this was a very special occasion for us. We have been working with the Freetown District offering training for district and branch leaders since we arrived in the mission. We are happy to have placed our small layer of service on the foundation laid by so many other couples before us and rejoice to see this wonderful day arrive for the saints here. This is only the beginning of many more stakes to come in Sierra Leone. <br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">In June of 2012 the mission was fortunate to have the arrival of another couple to serve in Freetown, Elder and Sister Lauritzen. We were so happy to welcome them. They have stewardship for the Freetown East District and the missionaries in that area. In Ecclesiastes 4:9 it says: "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor." We are so happy to have two couples in the office. Everything is easier with another good couple to share the load. It really is true "two [couples] are better than one."</td><td style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNavQK9wVvxNtHJtfA6x1xwUkFO6y9-PRAxTKC17N-LKOM-41Osm84qewFHmXDJ0_EVL6EzatFEtMnEUrKFL8XQz_QfPrafgNEUkUStoAajwKD88j2lvZ5J0YHYoYMjTRmL-pK0Cim1CE/s1600/DSC03107.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNavQK9wVvxNtHJtfA6x1xwUkFO6y9-PRAxTKC17N-LKOM-41Osm84qewFHmXDJ0_EVL6EzatFEtMnEUrKFL8XQz_QfPrafgNEUkUStoAajwKD88j2lvZ5J0YHYoYMjTRmL-pK0Cim1CE/s400/DSC03107.JPG" width="300" /> </a></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder Lauritzen demonstrates his novel way of making sure a key does not get lost. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister Lauritzen is the self-appointed "fire boss." We burn all of our paper trash. City trash pickup is "small, small."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A super P-day with the Freetown Zone gives everyone time to relax.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Occasionally the "kingdom builders" get a little dirty in the work.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder Lauritzen knows how to use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. Note the giant hole in our burn barrel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder and Sister Lauritzen volunteered when they first arrived at the mission to do a very sorely needed dirty job. They cleaned out the storage area under the mission. As you can see, manuals are not in short supply in our mission. Now we have a good view so that we can find what we need.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-58300346430148883502012-11-26T21:24:00.000-08:002012-11-26T21:24:04.860-08:00Thanksgiving 2012<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How good it was to be with good friends, the Lauritzens, Roggias and Burns for the Thanksgiving holiday.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Each of us commented on what a wonderful meal we had with the culinary contributions of all. None of us have time or energy to make such a meal just for the two of us, but we enjoyed coming together and sharing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thank heavens for holidays so Elder Randall can enjoy BOTH chocolate and coconut cream pies on one plate!</td></tr>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-69057068633055200552012-11-07T20:47:00.000-08:002013-02-03T11:18:25.490-08:00Sister Burton and Sister Dalton Visit Sierra Leone<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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The evening’s activities were so spiritually inspiring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sister Mariatu Brown had arranged to have the
Minister of Social Welfare, and Gender and Children (I know I haven’t
remembered that title correctly) and the Director of SLANGO (Sierra Leone
Association of Non-Governmental Organizations) who is also a woman, come to the
dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were introduced before
dinner and then given an opportunity to speak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Minister of Social Welfare said that she had actually joined the
church in Liberia, but had not been able to find it when she moved to Sierra
Leone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She knows where it is now, of
course, and had actually been encouraged by Elder Holland when he was here to
come back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was very complimentary of
the Church and all we do for the people of Sierra Leone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Director of SLANGO says she has wondered
many times why the Church does not publicize more about the humanitarian
projects that it does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also
mentioned that she knows of our youth and really wanted to know what makes them
so different from others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has
noticed something about them that she cannot find in other good youth in Sierra
Leone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wondered what it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all smiled and knew that those young
people have the Holy Ghost with them and the joy of the gospel shines in their
eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Previous to her speaking, Sister
Dalton encouraged everyone at their table to recite the Young Women theme for
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was quite impressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>President Roggia spoke next and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mentioned many of the humanitarian projects
that the Church has coordinated in Sierra Leone including bore holes,
wheelchair distribution, neo-natal resuscitation training, measles immunization
campaign as well as others that are in the beginning stages through the work of
Elder and Sister Burns including helping a polio camp orphanage, a blind school
and a deaf school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said that the
Church does not publicize a lot of the projects because that is just not our
way, but that we are so grateful for an opportunity to be of service to the
people of Sierra Leone. Both ladies were presented with a For the Strength of
Youth pamphlet and a Personal Progress book.</div>
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Both Sister Burton and Sister Dalton had an opportunity to
introduce themselves along with their husbands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We were inspired by what the husbands said about their wives and we could
see such a great example of valiant marriages that was inspiring to us and will
be to the Sierra Leone saints. Elder and Sister Sitati each gave some remarks
and I was impressed with what they said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sister Sitati just told of the daily habits of family prayer and
scripture study as well as weekly Family Home Evening that had helped their
family to grow and mature in the gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Elder Sitati said that when they joined the Church many years ago, their
oldest child was 9 and the youngest was 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The branch they were in had 19 members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was no one to look to for guidance about how to integrate the
gospel into their families so they just listened to all that the prophets said
and tried to follow their teachings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Elder Sitati said, “We began to have family prayers, scripture study and
Family Home Evening ‘because the prophet said so.’” I was so impressed with his
example of a willingness early in their church membership to follow the
prophet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Minister of Social Welfare</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Director of SLANGO (Sierra Leone Association of Non-Governmental Organizations)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder Joseph and Sister Gladys Sitati</td></tr>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com0Freetown, Sierra Leone8.4841459999999991 -13.2286699999999668.358497 -13.390031499999965 8.6097949999999983 -13.067308499999966tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-46914231753373651612012-11-07T13:59:00.001-08:002012-11-07T14:00:58.800-08:00Mission Blessings<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are senior mission blessings where there are no words. What could be better than being blessed with the presence of Sister Linda K. Burton, General Relief Society President and Sister Elaine Dalton, General Young Women President! The senior couples were privileged to be among a group who had dinner with these inspiring sisters and their husbands.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder Randall hands a prospective missionary his mission call. All of the mission calls for missionaries who leave from our mission come through the mission office and Elder Randall sees that they get to them. He is responsible for processing all of their applications including making sure that everything is complete on the application before it goes to the Area Office. Once the call arrives, he keeps a checklist of ten things that they must obtain before they can enter the MTC, including a resume, a copy of their call letter, a copy of their acceptance letter, 10 passport photos, a police clearance letter, passport, yellow fever immunization card, and others. He also requests our helper in Ghana to make the travel arrangements for these missionaries, for those going home from our mission, and also tracks those who are returning to our mission, occasionally picking them up at the wharf. It's a huge job to keep track of all of that. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the smallest denomination of bill in Sierra Leone. It is worth about 25 cents. It gets used a lot and so most of the ones we see are pretty dirty and used, but the bank gave me this package of 500 new ones one day when I replenished my cash working fund. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is typical of the money I get from the bank when I replenish my cash.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of our assignments when we first arrived at the mission was to furnish a couple apartment for a new senior couple. It was challenging because we were still so new ourselves. This is the furniture we had made for the Schlehubers. We even went to the fabric store to choose fabric. We also had dining room furniture and bedroom furniture made as well.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We spent several months looking at apartments and homes to find this one for our new humanitarian couple, the Burns. It is a beautiful new home, but the road to get to it is challenging, to say the least. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Elder Randall's most recent projects is to get prepaid electrical meters for the mission office and the chapel next door. Each of these is loaded with an amount of electricity which is paid for in advance. You can check the balance at any time and purchase more electricity. We have had trouble with the electricity being disconnected because bills are not delivered in a timely way (they are not mailed, but hand delivered) and when either the chapel or the mission gets too far behind in the bills, the electricity for both is disconnected, and it is a long process for re-connection. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even with the prepaid meters, there are many days when there is not enough power for the city of Freetown, so we have two backup generators to provide power for the chapel, the mission office, and an apartment for 6-8 elders. Elder Randall keeps an eye on the two new generators we recently obtained to provide backup electricity. </td></tr>
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about how to record expenditures in their district funds. I have nine
district leaders who send me a text once a month with their expenditures
in four different categories. I put money in their bank accounts based
on those figures to replenish their money so they can pay for diesel
fuel for their generators, propane gas for cooking, dishes and cleaning
supplies for their apartments, repairs on refrigerators, and medicine
for sick missionaries. It's amazing that young men can learn these
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There are lots of assignments in a mission--some you would not expect. Sister Roggia is always anxious to help our assistants, as they are her. Elder Barth has some pliers keeping the hose on the water connection while Elder Appleby works to fill the jugs for our water cooler at the mission office.</div>
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Every apartment uses a three-stage filter (in this picture in the bottom right-hand corner) to make sure our water is safe. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Siaka helps with the maintenance of the grounds around the mission office. He sweeps the whole compound with that broom in his hand. He has planted a small garden on some vacant land behind the office. There are many banana trees at the office and he makes sure to cut the bananas at just the right time. We are so grateful for his help to make our mission office grounds beautiful.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Markus is the do-it-all man in our mission. His official title is Mission Physical Facilities Supervisor (I think) but he does everything for us. He runs errands, he looks for missionary apartments, he furnishes missionary apartments, he contracts for carpenters to make furniture, he delivers cooking gas to missionaries, he picks up people at the wharf who have come to Freetown, he pays bills, he monitors security, he drives guests all over the mission, he registers all our vehicles, he helps people get drivers licenses, he works with immigration on visas and residence permits, etc. etc. His gentle optimistic spirit keeps things on an even keel in the office; he never seems stressed about anything. Every mission president deserves a "Markus" in their mission. We are so blessed to have him in our mission.</span></td></tr>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-81674150730390263802012-10-01T22:00:00.001-07:002012-10-01T22:05:58.586-07:00An Evening on the Beach with the Couples<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We have a nice place to eat on the Lumley Beach in Freetown. It is called China Town BBQ House. The restaurant is across the street from the beach, but they have built a cabana on the beach where you can sit and eat. The waitress carries your food across the road to serve you. We took advantage of the time while the Gredings, a short-term humanitarian couple, were here, to have dinner together. Gredings have been here for ten days training our new humanitarian couple, the Burns. They have driven all over Freetown and Bo looking at well projects which the Church has constructed. From left to right: Burns, Lauritzens, Gredings, Elder Randall</span></td></tr>
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Every time we come, we comment on how much it rejuvenates us to be here. This evening there was a gentle breeze blowing and the weather was perfect. </div><div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-51935999220829745712012-09-30T22:05:00.000-07:002012-10-21T21:59:30.565-07:00Hill Station Branch Primary<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the Hill Station Branch Primary gathered for Sharing Time. There are 38 children in one tiny room. A new chapel is being built for them, only the third chapel constructed here in Sierra Leone. The children know the gospel and are learning the Primary Songs. They have a sweet childlike spirit about them. At least one of the children says "Thank you, Auntie" after I finish teaching them each Sunday.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The two little ones on the mother's lap are twins. She brought them in to the Primary so the children could sing Happy Birthday. We sang and then I taught them "You've Had a Birthday" to sing as well. After Primary, each child got a little bag of popcorn to take home as a birthday treat. When we finished singing she tied the little girl on her back with a cloth and she promptly fell asleep. She carried the little boy in her arms. The only strollers we see here are those used to push around things to sell. The sister in the corner is signing the ledger they use for a Relief Society roll.</td></tr>
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This group is our largest since we came on our mission and we have been anxiously awaiting their arrival for several months. New missionaries add such a spirit of dedication and enthusiasm to a mission and these are no exception.</div>
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There's lots of luggage with new missionaries and Elder Barth and Elder Appleby are always anxious to help.</div>
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President Roggia meets, greets and directs. </div>
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Sister Roggia publishes a fabulous blog, mostly for the "mammas" at home who are anxiously awaiting news of their boys. She always has a camera in her hand. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were disappointed to receive word on the day of arrival that Elder Penia got all the way to the airport and it was discovered that he did not have a Sierra Leone visa. Our helpers in Ghana went to work and he was able to obtain a visa in time to fly to the mission four days later. He was able to serve those four days in the Ghana Accra Mission. We are so happy he has arrived so the group is complete.</span></td></tr>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-74128621295187352682012-09-22T19:30:00.000-07:002012-10-21T21:56:15.752-07:00Feimata's Baptism<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder Randall was asked by Sahr Doe if he would baptize his wife. Brother Doe has gone to BYU-Hawaii to go to school and was not able to do it himself. They have been married for over two years and she has been investigating the church for about nine months. She told me she was embarrassed at being the "oldest" investigator in her branch. At first I did not understand because I could see the man on the left in the picture below and knew she was not older than he. When she explained how long she has been an investigator, I explained who Brigham Young was and told her that he had investigated the Church for two years before he joined.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are the baptismal candidates for 22 September 2012</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder Purcell is a missionary from Samoa who has been teaching Feimata. She has had several missionaries teaching her. Brother Turay, on the right, is a branch missionary assigned to Elder Purcell for one transfer. He will leave to serve in the Ghana Khumasi Mission on 19 October.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Feimata bore a powerful testimony after her baptism. Because she has taken time to investigate the Church, she knows well of the truthfulness of the gospel. She began by saying how grateful she was to Sahr for introducing her to the gospel and the Church. She said, "He is the pillar and backbone of our home. Without him, I would not have found the true Church. this is a new beginning for me--the beginning of enduring to the end. I pray to God that he will give me the strength to endure faithfully. I know this is God's true church on earth."<br />
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She began by saying how grateful she was to Sahr for
introducing her to the gospel and the Church. She said, “He is the pillar
and backbone of our home. Without him, I would not have found the true
Church. This is a new beginning for me—the beginning of enduring to the
end. I pray to God that he will give me the strength to endure faithfully.
I
know this is God’s true church on earth.”</div>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7439233388012465952.post-31932057395854098972012-09-14T23:10:00.000-07:002012-09-14T23:18:31.268-07:00Sahr Doe<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is our good friend, Sahr Doe. He has been working in Facilities Management here in the mission. It is a huge job with responsibilities for all chapels and the mission home. Recently he informed us that he has been trying to get a visa to go to America to go to BYU-Hawaii. It is a challenging process and he has tried two other times, but this time he was successful! We wish him well in his new adventure, and congratulate him on his desire to grow and improve as a husband, father, and son of God.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sahr has some of the flashiest clothes and shoes of anyone we've ever met. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sahr helped us look for an apartment for our humanitarian couple. We were so grateful for his help! He has also been invaluable in negotiating with landlords for missionary apartments. We will miss him in many ways! </td></tr>
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Gayle J. Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17623289590712108609noreply@blogger.com1