Friday, March 23, 2018

A Visit to a Lesotho School and Weavers


My daughter and I brought suckers to hand out to the kids at this school. We made the mistake of not having them line up first. We were both mobbed, and nearly trampled, as we tried to hand them out! Luckily, no one was hurt!

Despite our mistake, we loved visiting the school just as it was getting ready to dismiss for the day!



 My grandchildren were swarmed by kids wanting to touch their hair and ask them questions!

 The people of Lesotho, whether young or old, are very loving!

 President teaches the children the song "I Am a Child of God" and "Popcorn Popping"

 The children wanted to ask my grandson a lot of questions!

 Teaching the kids songs with President, my grandsons, and daughter.


 My son-in-law taking pictures of the children singing!



 The school children were intrigued by my grandson's hair!


 Fist bumps!


 We went inside a classroom!

 The teacher of one of the classes teaching my grandson's words in Sesotho!

 I am especially surprised that the children and the teachers did not know of the United States, or any of the states like California or New York!


The weavers

These women spin yarn, dye the yarn, and make beautiful tapestries with it!

 We stopped by the weavers - their building is literally made out of soda pop cans! (see a previous blog from last year)
These women sing for us, and then the boys shared a couple of songs for them!

Singing "I Am a Child of God"

We felt blessed to have my daughter and her family here to visit!
They got to teach with the missionaries and had amazing experiences, as well as attend a Zone Conference, a baptism, and attend church at Umbhadula Branch and Ilovo Branch!

Their visit went by too fast - but we will treasure the time we spent together in South Africa and a day in Lesotho!

Very Special Zone Conference in Lesotho


The Lesotho Zone Conference in Maputsoe

Our oldest daughter, her husband, and their four boys came to visit us for a few days!

The Lesotho Zone was kind enough to gear the first couple of hours toward teaching the boys about missionary work! They did such a fabulous job, that all four boys wanted to go to another zone conference! I call that a great success!!!


 The boys in front of the meeting house! It is literally a house, converted!

 Our oldest daughter, her husband, and grandsons!

 Before the meeting started and while waiting for the remainder of the missionaries to come, the boys throw a football with some of the missionaries!


 My wonderful son-in-law, and Elder Knutsen

 A morning snack before we begin!

 Getting ready to start!

 Elders Lewis, Hauck, my oldest grandson, and Elder Harris (ZL)
Thank you for making my family feel so welcome!

 My grandsons with Elders Mnisi, and Wendel

 Elders Mnisi, Wendel, my grandson, Leckie, Knutsen, and Walker

 Elder Thompson teaches!

 The boys lead the zone in a song "Book of Mormon Stories"

 Elders Walker and Lewis

 Elders Leishman, Mnisi, and Wendel

 Elders Walker, Lewis, Hauck, my grandson, Harris (ZL), Chiromo (ZL)

 The Lesotho Zone

 Elders Hauck and Thompson

 Elder Knutsen helping my grandson!

 Elder Whiting and my grandson

 Elder Walker, my daughter, and Elder Harris

 Elder Hauck talked about some personal experiences

 My fabulous son-in-law!


 We took a break for photos!
After a couple of hours, we took my family to a nearby orphanage!

 The missionaries were so kind to the grandchildren! They left a huge positive impact on them - motivating them to be missionaries even more than before!

 The morning instruction was intended to be for the grandchildren! Those who taught did a remarkable job!

Our oldest grandson was impressed with the missionaries and said he can't wait to be one!

THANK YOU Lesotho Zone! You did a marvelous job!

After we left, the zone continued!

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Hillcrest and Richards Bay Zone Conference

 Elder Pantoe, Elder Holmes

 Elders Burlaka, Speranza, Harp

 Waiting for Zone Conference to start

 Elder Isooba (ZL) conducts

 Elder Macapala (ZL) teaches us

 Elder Parisot (ZL) instructs us

 Elder Parisot, Elder Warner

 Elder Abel 

 Elder Parisot greeting Elder Harbertson


 Elder Ah Sam

 Elders Huff, Nuusa, Groesbeck

 Elder Pantoe

 Elder Bodnar

 Elders taking down tables after lunch!

 Elder Abel

 Elder Bernard, Elder Youngman

 Elder Morales

 Elder Holmes is with us for a short while until he goes to his mission in Zimbabwe


 Elders Isooba, Moyo

 Elder Warner

 Elder Nuusa (ZL) is amazing

 We played a matching game to learn and improve good manners!

 Elder Maukavele

 Elder Speranza playing the matching game

 Elder Morales gets a match!

 Elder Parisot got a match!



 Elder Burlaka 

 Elder Flake finds a match!

 Elder Pentz gets a turn

 Elder Groesbeck found a match



 Almost finished!

 Elder Harbertson found one!

Elders Flake, and Brown

We had a very successful Zone Conference with both Hillcrest and Richards Bay Zone's!