August 3, 2012 Missionary Moments

 This may be a strange blog posting.  But, it is still a posting.  The man in the picture above reminds me of an actor.  I asked this man, Bishop Madu, if anyone has ever told him he looks like an actor and he said, "yes".  Can you guess who he looks like to me?  He looks like Cuba Gooding Jr. to me. Can you see it?

I don't know if you can tell, but, there are tons of people in the van.  I had to be careful taking this picture.  I didn't want to offend anyone.  These vans are a major form of transportation.  Many people cram into each of these vans to get from one place to another.  You have a person sitting on top of another person.  If a parent has a child and that child is sitting on the parents lap, the child rides free.  Usually someone is hanging out the sliding door telling people on the street how many more can get into the van and where it is going.  That person gets to ride a little cheaper.

We have a travel employee in the building we work in.  He gets flights, hotels, etc...for those who need to travel.  The church also hires a travel agency to send another person to work with our travel employee.  Tim (Elder Jennings) and I have become friends with the employee from the out of house travel agent.  Her name is Rhoda.  She is only 31 years old.  Has never married, and is a beautiful young woman.  She is not a member, although, someone has given her a Book of Mormon and she has met with the missionaries.  Today, at closing time, she came in to talk to us before she began her long journey home.  It takes her at least 2 hours to just get home on Friday evenings.  We talked to her about God's love.  Elder Jennings enouraged her to read Moroni's promise.

Earlier today, a young man came in to talk to the Bakers and check in.  We got to talk to him.  He is changing his life around for the better.  He told us he is "Repackaging my life".   We had a nice time talking to him.

This evening we had a couple over for a spaghetti dinner.  They are the missionary couple for the President. We sat and visited for quite a while. 

This morning when we were exiting the building we could hear a chorus of young Elder's singing "Praise to the Man".  It was so beautiful!  I wanted to hear them keep singing!  Everyone should have the opportunity to hear the Nigerian missionaries sing.  You, too, would want them to keep singing.