Dedication of Cameroon

We were privileged to be able to witness the dedication of the country of Cameroon to the preaching of the Gospel. Cameroon is the northern-most part of our mission. Our North American missionaries serve here. We also have two senior couples here.  The four local branch presidents all attended this ceremony along with our area president, Elder Paul Koelliker and his wife.

A Special Houseguest

We just concluded our week with Elder Jeffrey Holland. What a thrill it was to witness his dedication of the country of Cameroon and then bring him back to Kinshasa where he stayed with us for 4 days!

An apostle visits Cameroon

After the dedication we visited the home of President Bala, a local branch president. There, his son played a hymn he learned while taking piano lessons from Sister Edith Baker.  We were all touched by this tiny sweet home which was filled with the spirit of the Lord.



We also visited a site proposed for the first chapel to be built in the country of Cameroon. There are four branches in the city of Yaounde, one missionary couple and 8 North American missionaries.



There was a member meeting that afternoon. Around 400 church members came to hear Elder Holland address them. They had a chance to shake his hand after the meeting.

The Streets of Kinshasa

A visit to St. Joseph's Hospital

The Moody's took me to St. Joseph's Hospital where I met Dr. Ngoie. He is a local OB doctor who has learn neonatal infant resuscitation through the Church's humanitarian program.It teaches doctors and nurses how to save infants lives as they are being born. (Through the proper techniques of clearing out the mucas in their throats, etc.) Dr. Ngoie has in turn taught this technique throughout the DRC and has reported back that literally thousands of babies have been saved that would have previously been considered dead.



This baby was resuscitated minutes before we toured this facility.



This baby was a minute old....now being weighed as 7 of us parade through the delivery room. They offered to have us watch the delivery if we had wanted to!



This autoclave unit was repaired by our own Elder Moon and they now are able to sterilize their instruments. (That is a very good thing to do in a hospital! What did they do before it was repaired????)

Camp Luca Baptism

A new area was opened about 8 weeks ago in one of our Kinshasa stakes. The existing ward was too large and the boundaries so vast that many of the members had difficulty getting transport to the chapel. At the suggestion of the stake president and concurrence of the local bishop, a small branch began to meet in the great room of our missionaries' residence. Their repeated requests for chairs caught my attention. Now, some 6 weeks later there are over 120 people meeting under the direction of the local ward. The four missionaries have had 68 baptisms in the first 6 weeks of their new assignment. I attended this baptism on August 9 where 25 souls were received into the fold. Here is their photo.