Its a Boy

Last week monday after we had returned to the apartment we were cleaning some small things when we got a call from our mission president. It threw me off and I was not prepared for it at all. I answered and he wanted to speak with me and my companion on speaker. He told us that because of the situation in Liberia we need to make room in the mission for 7 missionaries coming from the MTC so my companion went on emergency transfer and I was called to train. He told us we would be leaving on Wednesday to travel to Kumasi. 

Tuesday we prepared to leave by saying goodbye to some members and my companion packed. We stayed the night at the Zone Leaders to get up at 4 the next day to get on a bus to Kumasi. 

We arrived in Kumasi and went to the stake center of my last area so it was nice seeing it again. I met my son there and we arranged for everyone to travel to their areas. With my area being 7 hours away we stayed at the mission home for the night. MLC was the next day so they do a big sports night for all the missionaries going to MLC. We were able to go to that and have fun with a lot of missionaries. 

We woke up at 5 Tuesday to get on the bus to come to Tamale. I traveled a total of 14 hours over the two days. We got back to the apartment around 4 PM and I was dead so we stayed in for the rest of the day. 

So now I have a son. His name is Elder Kokiantali but that is his first name so we will get new tags with his last name so he will be Elder Mpani. He is from DR Congo and is learning english. He speaks French so we are working on his English now. We will be together for the rest of this transfer and two more after so a total of 2 1/2 transfers.