Part 2: Last Days in Abomosu, Ghana

Monday is P-Day for the missionaries and Elder and Sister Terry. We had asked the Terry's if they wanted to go on an adventure together for their last P-day with us in Abomosu. They were so excited and started making plans for what we could do. They drive around a lot to check up on all the branches in the district and they said that they saw this big factory and wanted to find out what it was. They found out that it was an Oil Palm Processing Plant. They went there on Saturday and asked if we would be able to take a tour on Monday and setup an appointment for us. Monday afternoon the Terry's picked us up and then we picked up the Elders and started our drive out to Asoum. It is such an amazing factory. They extract two different kinds of oil, which honestly I'm not sure I understand what they are for.  I think both are use for cooking (one definitely is and looks just like vegetable oil).  They also get fatty acid stuff that is used to make soap. They are trying to go entirely green and use the nut casing that contains the oil as biofuel to run the plant.  

Ready with our Hard Hats

Steam Room

Rail-Carts with the Palm Plant

Rail-Carts going into the Steam Chamber

This is the off-season for Palm

The Processing Plant

The many different products (from left to right: cooking oil, fatty acid used for soap,  stuff used for biscuits, ice cream, etc, another more pure cooking oil, and another product used for soap.

The last day we spent saying all of our goodbyes. Here are some pictures of us playing with the children for the last time. Thanks to Laura and Ember for the bubbles, the children really loved them.

Some of my favorite village children

We blew bubbles with them as our goodbye

I love their faces.

I hate to pick favorites but she chose me!

I absolutely love this girl!

Finishing off the rest of the bubbles

       The children made a song about us. Obroni means white person and Obibini means black person.

George was such a cutie.

Amanda, her mom had her bring out this picture to show us. We weren't sure if we were supposed to keep it or not so we just took a picture instead. She is so adorable and has the most beautiful smile, I wish you could see it.

George and his sister we called her Beautiful Face because we could not understand her name. Also many other children we love in the background.

As a goodbye from Esther she made us Golden Chicken, fried rice, salad, and brought us Alvaro (Joey's Favorite)

Where is this bird?

This was on our way to Accra. The driver gave us an orange and this is how you eat it. You cut off the top and then squeeze the juice and drink it.

This is Stephen Jr's Daughter, Rhea and a girl from an orphanage that is in the process of being adopted, Elizabeth. They are adorable. We spent our last night in Accra with them.

The bird is in a glove box. One our way to Accra we were riding in a Tro-Tro (a van) and this man opens the glove box and grabs this bird out and asks if we like it. He ended up putting it back in the glove box until halfway to Accra when he asks us to grab it for him. We think that he sold it to one of the other passengers because we never saw it again.

We really enjoyed Abomosu and we have set a goal to return in the next 4 years! We have definitely learned and grown a lot from our experience there. Thank you to everyone that helped make this summer possible for us. We are very grateful.