April is Time for President's Interviews!

Sister Nyawe and Sister Owusu

Elder Rochester (goes home after two years to Texas April 15) and Elder Etuk

Sister Brown and Sister Awuoche

Elder Nwaokonko (DL) and Elder Serafine

Elder Donkor and Elder Tawiah (It is really hot and dry right now; hence, the hats.)

Elder Bogh, Elder Gherkins and Elder Jest

Elder Aluka and Elder Otubu, our Office Elders, working on recording baptismal records.

President Roggia set apart Br. Bangura and Br. Aligie from Bo as full-time missionaries. They were leaving for the Ghana MTC and then will serve in the Nigeria Port Harcourt Mission.

Assistants and Sister Lauritzens making sure the tickets, passports and yellow fever cards are together for the Pre-MTC missionaries leaving to Ghana.

Sister Lauritzen, President Roggia, Elder Otaniyuwa and Elder Wuthrich saying goodbye to the Pre-MTC missionaries.

Sister Attiobge and Sister Apiyo serving in Bo

Elder Weller and Elder Clawson reading a letter from the former Elder Svongwa and enjoying it! (Elder Walker watching)

Missionaries in Bo coming and going after interviews with President Roggia

Pretty star flower outside of the Njaiboimba Chapel.

Elder Jones showing pictures of a possible new missionary apartment to the Schlehubers. (Elder McDonald and Elder Walker behind chairs)

Watching the video of the Miracle in West Africa.  

Elder Flament and Elder Sumrak

 I really like this picture. Elder Sumrak is helping a convert with a tie. (He was so tender and careful.)

Elders Hovley, Penia, Mukwaira, Stanford, Flament and Sumrak in Bo.

A Wonderful Easter Weekend in Bo

Elder Mills and Elder Fonokalafi (right) and two baptismal candidates.

Elder Woodhead and Elder Weller and two good souls.

Elder Gyewu-Appiah and Elder Turner with a brother and sister waiting to enter the waters of baptism.

Elders and President Roggia.  Busy day prior to the Easter Program in Bo.

President Roggia and Elder Penia shaking hands.

Love it! Gathering everyone.

Sweet.

Elder Arikpo and Elder Chigede with others.

Elder Weller

Elder Hovley and Elder Penia and another baptismal candidate.

The Baptismal Service was delightfully crowded with members and baptismal candidates. Several weeks prior to baptism, they are taught the lessons about the gospel of Jesus Christ .  It is called the gospel of Jesus Christ because the Atonement of Jesus Christ is central.  Those who desire baptism develop faith in Jesus Christ, repent, are then baptized by one with priesthood authority, receive the Holy Ghost and endure to the end.  Continued faithfulness is called "enduring to the end."  Seventeen were to enter the waters of baptism.

Listening intently to a question after baptism...

Sunset in Bo near the Njaiboima Chapel

Easter Sunrise in Elder and Sister Schlehuber's compound and off to Kenema.

Elder Barth, Elder Chemhuru, Elder Hales and Elder Richardson in Kenema Easter morning at the Simbeck Branch. (sitting on the stairs into the outside baptismal font)

Freetown East

This sister's dress was made in Ghana while serving a mission there.

 A little closer look...

Elder Edwards and Elder Symons after Freetown East District Conference

Elder Donaldson talking with District members.

What faithful missionaries! left to right: Elders Symons, Purcell, Losee, Evans, and Richards.

Elder Baffoe-Appiah

Elders singing to the recent converts and investigators.

Enjoy!

Elder Adah and Elder Symons

Elder Nickle and Elder Lokpo

Elder Narteh

Elder Richards and Elder Ekpo

Elder Liufau and Elder Aniabre

Elder Coffie and Elder Dyngee

Elder Wooton and Elder Losee listening intently

Elder Hill 

Happiness all around...

Beautiful Saints!

Elder Burns with Elder Edwards and Elder Symons

Elder Evans, Sister Burns and Elder Purcell

We love each other!  What a wonderful experience these three years have been! Time is flying! And how special it is to know these faithful missionaries and people!

July 1st. New Mission President

Rachelle and David B. Ostler
David Boyer Ostler, 55, and Rachelle Taylor Ostler, six children and two foster daughters, Chennai 1st Branch, Chennai India District: Sierra Leone Freetown Mission. Brother Ostler serves as a counselor in a branch Sunday School presidency and is a former stake president, counselor in a stake presidency, stake Young Men president, bishop, counselor in a mission presidency and missionary in the Japan Fukuoka Mission. Retired executive vice president, OptumInsight. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to O. Don and Barbara Boyer Ostler.

Sister Ostler serves as a counselor in a branch Primary presidency and is a former stake Primary president, ward Relief Society president, ward Young Women president, counselor in a ward Primary presidency, seminary teacher and regional public affair committee member. Born in Eureka, Calif., to Noel Morgan and Eleanor Rae Croshaw Taylor.