A
Day of Celebration
A
Photo Essay
Text by: Maurine Jensen Proctor
Photography
by: Scot Facer Proctor
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PART
SEVEN
At
long last, Kwaku, arrives in Ghana where he sees the beautiful
temple and realizes that he cannot keep all these good things
for himself, but must spread them all over the world.
The
missionaries from the Ghana Accra Mission gathered to sing “Called
to Serve.”
Then
surging from a gate of the stadium came 700 primary children dressed
in white as if ready for the temple.
This
is the future of Ghana, a people of purity and promise, whose
children will grow up with an inheritance of eternal blessings,
scarcely understanding the hardships that came before them.
Dressed
in robes of purity, they will lift themselves and their land.
As
they sang, “I love to see the temple, I’m going there someday,”
the audience frankly wept. Elder Nelson and Sister Hinckley wiped
their eyes because the Spirit was so strong.
Their
beautiful African faces contrasted against their dazzling white
costumes, and few had ever seen a sight more stunning.
The
missionaries gathered with the children to sing the song and affirm
the message, “I am a Child of God.”
It
was not only A Day of Celebration, but also a day of promise and
hope and most of all love.
