Off to Nigeria!!!!!!

January 19, 2017 we headed to Nigeria to train some Area Family History Advisers for two areas in Nigeria.

Eye Test

How many Caucasians are in this picture at the Accra, Ghana airport, waiting to go to Nigeria.

We flew to the Lagos, Nigeria international airport, caught a taxi to the regional airport in Lagos to fly to Owerri.  From Owerri we were driven to Aba where we stayed in the ancillary building on the Temple grounds.

Motor bikes abound.

Beside the road from Owerri to Aba.

We had a driver to take us around where we needed to go.  Elder Moore was sure glad of that.  This was some of the most aggressive driving he has seen.  When we were driving from Owerri to Aba we counted 8 check points.  At these check points the soldiers and police were armed with machine guns.  We didn't even want to cause trouble at the check point.  To make it even more fun the road had large pot holes, or as our driver called them manholes, I guess they are manholes because a man could fall in and have trouble getting out.  When a manhole was encountered we were driven on the side of the road because it was smoother than the pavement.

Elder Moore is still a truck driver at heart but says he doesn't want to drive a truck here in Africa.

Another shot of what we saw on the side of the road.

These little yellow 3 wheel taxi's are everywhere in the towns.  We were told that people left there traditional crafts to drive these to make money after they were introduced.

We were treated real nice.  This was the bed in our self-contained flat (apartment).

The living area.

Not sure if the bars were to keep us in or keep intruders out.

I looked out the window and what did I see?  The view of the Church of Jesus Christ Temple in Aba, Nigeria.

The cattle egrets enjoying the meal the water from lawn sprinklers bring up.

Here we are at the training session for the Area Family History Advisers.  We had two from Owerri and two from Port Harcourt.

The group photo with the Temple in the background.

Left to right: Ifeoma C. L. and Benjamin C. Okoro, Frank Sam and Augustina Ndideamaka Wariso, Sister and Elder Moore, Richard Paapa Dadzie.

We also had a training meeting with a young man who is on a service mission and will be working as a Family History consultant.

Left to Right: Richard Paapa Dadzie, Jesse Promise, Elder and Sister Moore.

Sister and Elder Moore outside the Aba, Nigeria Temple.

Richard Paapa Dadzie, the Africa West Area Family History Manager, and us outside the  Temple.

We felt really secure in our room.  We had bars on the windows and the door was over 2 inches thick and heavy.  Just look at the bolts to lock the door, 3 at the top, 3 at the bottom and 4 in the middle.  To lock the door we had to rotate the key 4 times to get the bolts all to engage.

The ancillary building on the Temple grounds.

This was the sight we saw just after getting on the street to drive to Owerri for a meeting.  Kind of reminds me of cattle drives out west.

This was the "cowboy".

At the restaurant where we ate one day.  I think it is self explanatory.

In Owerri we saw the Hand of God.

This monument was build because it was said that the road could not have been built with out the "Hand of God".

One of the many markets we saw beside the road.

Do I need to explain this?