Mission Leader Conference and Wild Animals

 

Dakar, Senegal

 Our responsibilities as Execuitve Secretaries for the Africa West Area include planning and organizing Mission Leader Seminars twice a year for 26 Mission Leader couples from missions all over West Africa. Next year we will add seven new missions!

The Mission Leader Seminar this year was held in Senegal, West Afica and included two full days of instruction and one fun day at the Game Reserve and way too much good food.

"The measure of leadership is not what we achieve, but who we become in the process of leading"

Elder Ojediran, 1st Counselor Africa West Area

 "What would happen if the 43,507 members baptized in the last 12 months invited others to attend church with them?  Statistics show that we would have 18,272 new members."

Elder Morrison, 2nd Counselor of Africa West Area

"Build on the work that has been done already.  Move on, don't  criticize what someone has done in the past, they have done their best. We don't have to prove we are the boss, but we support and love each other.  If you see something to improve, just work on it and improve it and the Lord will do the same after you."  Elder Kyungu, President of Africa West Area 

                                                       Bandia Reserve, Dakar, Senegal

TroTros in Dakar are a work of art.

View of the most Western tip of Africa

The African Renaissance Mounument in Dakar

164 feet high, the statue of a man, woman, and child erupting from a volcano which symbolizes Africa's rebirth and it's unity and progress beyong the era of colonialism..

The outing for the women while the men were in meetings.

The farthest western tip of West Africa--the doorway to everywhere.

                                                         The Mamelles Lighthouse

On the hill overlooking Senegal and standing here on this upper platform, Elder Bednar offered his dedicatory prayer in 2017 on the people and land of West Africa.

"He began the prayer in the dark with only the lighthouse still lit and showing the way." (Elder Vinson) As he completed the prayer the "ocean, shoreline and city were bathed in the clear, morning light of the risen sun".(Elder Nash)

The experience reflected the "symbolism of the gospel bringing Senegal out of darkness in to the dawning of a new day." (Edler Vinson)