Miscellaneous stuff we get involved with

Cheryl is presenting the award for the Cleanest Missionary apartment to Elder Obadiah from Nigeria and Elder Cea from the Philippines. It was breakfast ingredients of bacon, eggs, sweet rolls and orange juice.  We didn't have much to do with the contest other than we delivered the prize to the missionaries who were in the branch that we are assigned to. Elder Obadiah has never had bacon before. 

This is the branch President, President Darius from the other branch we are assigned to.  He is registering online for the BYU pathways program. The pathways program is a big thing here. It is one of the few college opportunities that many can afford that is available in the country. For Liberia the church only charges $3.80 per unit. He was not able to register on his own because he does not have a credit card, only a debit card. The church only accepts credit cards. Not many have credit cards in this country because of the high monthly service fees. He paid me cash in exchange for charging it to my credit card.

This is Thomas from the Dolo's Town Branch. He asked if it was okay if he sent me a copy of his business plan to review. He needed an outside reviewer as part of his college assignment.  I told him that instead of me looking at it I would forward it to Elder Hanks, one of the other senior missionaries in the mission for review. Elder Hanks just retired as a business professor at Utah State University.

Thomas completed his first two years of college in the pathway program.

 We met once again with the management of the Redemption hospital. This time we brought a solar contractor with us.  It was fitting that the meeting was in the dark.

The solar contractor received a tour of the hospital. They needed to know what systems were critical to be powered by the Solar system. This is the operating room. It is on the critical list. I asked the operating room nurse when was the last time they performed an operation here. She said they just performed one in the morning and they had to use headlamps and cell phone lights so they could see.

On our way to church we stopped by the Boys Town ward to meet with Brother Richardson Larquellie.  Brother Larquellie Applied for and won the lottery for a work visa to the United States for him and his family. He patiently turned in all the needed materials. On the final interview his wife was not able to read at the level the interviewer thought was appropriate for the family visa requirements and he rejected the visa application.

Brother Larquellie is appealing the decision and has asked for my help to complete the appeal. I'm not quite sure what that involves yet. Fortunately most of it is online.