On Thursday the house was more like a revolving door of visitors – it was so much fun! There was an American guy from Draper here to talk to Stephen about a farm he is supervising for him, Stephen’s brother, Doctor Kessee (the man who brought the church from England to Ghana and introduced Stephen to it) and his sons. Those were the first of the morning. None of them even stayed for lunch!
The next of the visitors were Daniel (the head master at Presby/loan recipient) and Christie (the teacher of our first Presby class). They came to us with presents!
Last Sunday, Daniel stopped the guys at church and told him that we all needed to go to the school the next morning to get our “measurements” taken. Joey was convinced it was for our coffins/burial clothes – but it wasn’t! They took Emily and I to a seamstress and the guys to a tailor and had dresses made for us and shirts made for the guys to thank us for the teaching and help we’ve given them here.
In only 3 days they were at our door and ready to present us with the goods! I couldn’t believe they were all done so fast – but I was positively thrilled!
I wanted to try the dress on right then and Christie wanted to see us all in them.
I love it!!!
Aren’t the shirts pretty awesome too?
Here’s Emily and Joey in their African garb.
All of us together with Christie and Daniel! What wonderful people!
Only about 5 minutes after Daniel and Christie left, Stephen Abu Jr., his wife, Sonya, their 2 kids, Ria and Koby, Brother David McKonkie (who surprisingly enough knows my grandma and grandpa Smoot AND Spencer’s dad. Pretty sweet!) and then 3 other farmer men who for all I know were just along for the ride.
Everyone was really excited to be there.
It was quite the full house and again, we had a feast! Sonya and Jr. even brought cake and ice cream and a little present for Stephen Sr.’s birthday. Aren’t these shirts adorable!? I am totally going to make shirts like these for my parents with our kids’ faces on them. It’ll be the BEST!
We had so much fun playing with Ria and Koby too! They were so excited to get out of the car and get right into the dirt. This place is a child’s heaven – they have all the room in the world to play.
Even Yaw loved watching the kids play
Sadly enough, even this visit didn’t last much longer than an hour before they said their goodbyes.
What a good daddy!
Everyone was in and out of this house before 3:00pm and it was eerily quiet again. But what a good day! It was fun to see some new faces and meet so many new people.
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