Mission Tour Lesotho Zone

Lesotho Zone Conference!

Elder Hamilton taught so many powerful things - but one thing he taught about leadership was that there are no ladders of hierarchy in the church. No calling is higher than another! We are all on the same path, but we just have different responsibilities, and those responsibilities get mixed up and shuffled throughout our lives...but being a Bishop vs. being a Primary teacher has no bearing to getting into the celestial kingdom. Despite our callings, we all have exaltation if we are faithful.

 Elder Beck's last Zone Conference - we got to hear his powerful testimony!

 This is also Elder Fransen's last Zone Conference! He also bore testimony!

 Elder Schraedel (ZL) also bore his testimony!

Our Zone Leaders, Elder Shraedel and Elder Hicks with the Hamiltons.

 Our Elders are good participants!

 Elder Hicks (ZL) conducts our meeting

The Lesotho Zone!

Area President Mission Tour in Bloemfontein

Area President, Elder Kevin Hamilton and his wife, Sister Claudia Hamilton start our mission tour in Bloemfontein!

The Hamiltons will travel the entire mission with President Thompson and I for one week, and have the opportunity to meet all of our missionaries during a marathon of Zone Conferences.

Day 1 Bloemfontein

Day 2 Lesotho

Day 3 Phuthadhitjhaba (in Bethlehem)

Day 4 Newcastle (in Ladysmith)

Day 5 Durban, Hillcrest, Richards Bay (in Pinetown)

Day 6 Durban Stake Conference Adult Session

Day 7 Durban Stake Conference

 We start in the Bloemfontein Zone!

Elders Hamilton and Thompson, and Sisters Hamilton and Thompson were the presenters at

the five Zone Conferences

 Elder and Sister Hamilton were impressed with the Bloemfontein Zone

(and so were we!!!)

 We have new Elders, and seven that transferred from Madagascar as that mission was closed due to the bubonic plague in that country.

We are thrilled to have all!

 Elder Lahue

Our New Office Couple

Introducing the Hampshires!

Elder and Sister Hampshire are our new office couple! So glad they are here!

Elder and Sister Wood

Our wonderful office couple, Elder and Sister Wood, have returned home!

We miss them immensely - and thank them for their wonderful and valiant service!

We love you!

Elder Smith

Goodbye Elder Smith - we love you!

Our departing elder!

Running the Mission

We have some fabulous couples! 

We could use more! If you know of anyone that would like to serve with us, let us know - we can request them!

 The Dransfields serving in Lesotho, The Porters serving in Bloemfontein

The South Africa Durban Mission Presidency

Terry Johns, Kip Thompson, Elwood Brown

Lot's of Catching Up!

We discovered a virus on our camera card that has our latest new missionaries photos! We are attempting to recover those photos...but in the meantime, I'm going to try to catch up with the last couple of weeks!