Cute Family!

This is the Boadu family. Benjamin, Theresa, their two daughters, Mary and Lydi (the baby). They are so adorable! They actually have another daughter that we met tonight who is older than Mary. Her name is Florence. I can't get enough of their kids!



Benjamin came over today for a business consultation with the guys. He wants to start planting sugar cane, and apparently he can make quite a bit of money on it. Sounds really promising from what he's told us.

Anyway, his wife and two youngest came over with him today, and we had so much playing with them! Mary sat down and Emily pulled out our "Big Book" of ABC's for our program. She sat and wrote all of her ABC's with us. Then we took her out to see the puppies (which are 3 weeks old today!). She loved them!



It's funny though, it seems that the animals here are never exactly domesticated. They never pet their dogs or hold their cats, and anytime we go to play with the puppies everyone gets worried that the mother is going to attack us (which she hasn't done yet). So we just kind of laugh. I'm very grateful that they have the puppies who haven't grown to fear the humans yet, so we can hold and pet and play with at least some of the animals on the farm.


The guys taught another business class tonight. It went really well tonight! People were really participating and hopefully understanding what's important in starting a business. They felt really good about it. The turnout was great too. They've weeded out the people who just wanted to check it out, and now those who come really want to be there and want to learn something.

Most of the information I get about the lessons has to come from Spencer though because the second we walk up to the church there is a whole crowd of children that come with us. They are hilarious! We not only have the members' kids, who are attending the classes, but we also have the neighborhood kids follow us there so that we'll play with them. It makes it rather difficult for Emily and I to sit and listen to the lessons when the kids follow us, with their loud voices and laughter in and out and everywhere we go. It's hilarious, but they're worth it! Such cute kids, and we have fun getting to know them.

Margaret (Sister Abu) talked to me today and said that one of the girls who always comes to the church to play with us is the daughter of a less active member. Her mom apparently stopped Margaret today and asked her to thank us for loving her kids and then told Margaret that she wants to come back to church because of it. That makes playing with and loving the kids a whole lot more meaningful! But I think the coolest thing about hearing that was having Margaret be so grateful. She and Brother Abu are the ward missionaries and have been working non-stop with the less active members for the last 2 years, so I know that she's thrilled to have one of the ladies come back to church. Having her thank us so sincerely for loving the children (which is NOT hard AT ALL!) was really cool. It's good to know that we really can help the people here.