PART SEVEN

A Day of Celebration
A Photo Essay

Text by: Maurine Jensen Proctor
Photography by: Scot Facer Proctor

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.

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