General Conference Shout Out to the Assards and the Affoues - Pioneers in Cote D'Ivoire

"The miracle of the Church in the Ivory Coast cannot be told without the names of two couples: Philippe and Annelies Assard and Lucien and Agathe Affoue. They joined the Church as young married couples, one in Germany and one in France. In the 1980s, Philippe and Lucien felt drawn back to their native African country for the purpose of building the kingdom of God. For Sister Assard, who is German, to leave her family and allow Brother Assard to leave his work as an accomplished mechanical engineer required unusual faith. The two couples met each other for the first time in the Ivory Coast and started a Sunday School. That was 30 years ago. There are now eight stakes and 27,000 members in this beautiful African country. The Affoues continue to serve nobly as do the Assards, who recently completed a mission to the Accra Ghana Temple." (Elder Andersen, April 2015 General Conference)

This week the Ghana Temple was packed with faithful saints from Cote D'Ivoire.  They do more family file work than members from any country attending the Ghana Accra Temple according to our family history couple, Elder and Sister Watson.