Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Colors of Nigeria

Women provide color and style in Nigeria. Whether it's standing at a bus stop or going to market, the women are always dressed in colorful cotton prints - sometimes lace and sequins. And they don't just wear it on Sundays, either! Market Day

Zone Conference Style: Sisters in one apartment picked fabric to have similar traditional dresses made. The other apartment wore black and lime green to the Christmas Zone Conference.

Ikeja Zone leaders bought matching pink ties for all of the Elders as well as for President Jones and Elder Krupp for their Zone Conference.
{Note to self: Never put Africans in front of a dark curtain for a picture. }

5 comments:

Deanne Wilde said...

I think one of my favorite things about Nigeria is the fabric. You will be able to write a book when you come home. Thanks for sharing with us. Love, Deanne and Bob

Sister J. said...

Wow! I didn't know missionaries could be that colorful! And here we are stuck in the basic blahs!

Love your blog, it's so fun to see what is happening a world away!
Love
Shirl & Dew
PS We missed you at our New Years Eve bash!

Laurel said...

Your pictures show that there can be beauty everywhere. What fun everyone has with colors! You're becoming quite the experts. We'll have to put you in charge of some sort of African show when you get home:) Love, Laurel

Tammy Engebretsen said...

Your sister miss. are beautiful! I loved the pink zone conf., it made me jealous, we never even thought of doing that with our missionaries ;-) You two are great, aren't missions wonderful!? I really haven't forgotten about all the trials and hard things, the blessing just seem to outweigh the bad stuff. We ever pray for you, keep at it!!
Hopefully we can make it down to Cedar for lambing again, such fun for us city folks!
Love you

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