The baptismal font in the courtyard of the chapel in Owerri Nigeria. 

This is President and Sister Stone (Dana Lyman's parents) of the Port Harcourt Nigeria Mission. We stayed with them in the mission home and traveled with them for six days in Nigeria on a mission tour and a series of stake leadership training that we did this week. They are doing great and prospering in Africa. 

This is one of the zone leaders in Owerri standing with a ward missionary who attended our zone conference. As they talked, they discovered that it was this elders sister who taught and baptized the ward missionary when his sister was a missionary in Lagos Nigeria a few years ago. The fruits of missionary work are everywhere. 

After a mission conference with the elders in Owerri, Nigeria (Port Harcourt Mission) we took a photo in the courtyard of the chapel in Owerri. They were terrific! 

On the day we left the Nigeria Uyo Mission to head for Port Harcourt, we took a photo with the elders working in the mission office, standing outside in the office compound. 

These women were standing outside this little chapel deep in the jungle of the Nigerian delta where we went to church last week. They all walked to church from their villages in the bush down a rutted, sandy road, but were dressed in their beautiful African clothes for the Sabbath. 

Last week we attended church at this chapel which is five miles down a dirt road in the jungle of Nigeria. I found this little girl going into the building and couldn't resist taking her picture. I think she is about 5 or 6. 

These young women (and their advser/translator in the green dress) attended Mom's auxiliary training session deep in the bush (at a very nice chapel). The one on the left is 15 years old and she is a counselor in the ward YW presidency. 

These three + the photographer were the entrepid crew that plied Makola Market today. The other couple is Kirt and DeAnn Krieger. They are from Park City and live just down the street from us. He is the Church's General Counsel (attorney) for Africa. DeAnn is a world-class African shopper and guide. 

Mom bought some fabric from this lady at the market today and she asked me to bring her a copy of this picture. So I will. This fabric is all hand made (colored) and is called batik. The colors are so beautiful and the dark African women look so beautiful in the vivid colors. This is Africa. 

The three women in this photo (you can't see them all very well) are carrying a load of cassava on their heads. Cassave is ground and pounded and boiled and makes up the principal food of West Africa...foo foo! In the USA we use it to make tapioca. 

Mom loved this trader's hat. She is cooking plaintains (like bannanas) and fish and selling small bags of ground nuts (like peanuts). 

This girl crossing the street today had her TV on her head (along with a few other things). 

This one doesn't look heavy but it sure is convenient. 

She is carrying heavy cans on her head and getting along just fine. The women have an uncanny sense of balance to do this and it gives them a wonderful graceful walk. 

African women carry everything on their heads. They could never carry this much in their arms. 

In the 1 1/2 hours we wandered we saw about 10% of the market. This is a shoppers paradise...if you are an African. 

You can find anything in the world to buy here...if you are an African. Today there were tens of thousands of shoppers, traders and hawkers. 

The Makola Market winds around streets and alleys and is a beehive of activity every day, especially Saturday. 

Today, Saturday Aug 27th, we spent an hour and a half at the Makola Market in downtown Accra with the Kriegers, our neighbors.