Daily Archives: February 26, 2009

A Few Pictures

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Here are the first three of many pictures about our mission experience. The one on the left shows the kind of roads but also the beautiful views we have here in Ezulwini. The middle picture is Mary with one of the Young Single Adults from the Ezulwini branch who is all dressed up for a YSA Valentines dance. The last one shows Mary with a woman who teaches 1st grade students at a small school. She has almost nothing to teach with or from because it is not a state school but is for poor children.

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These pictures are about the first baptism that we were able to be a small part of in Swaziland. The left hand picture shows Bill at the small stand that brother Nahti has along the road where he sells onions, squash, snacks and sometimes pineapples. Sister Wilson wanted to buy a pineapple so they happened to stop at Nahti’s stand. About the first thing Nahti said to them was he needed them to teach him about faith. So they and the missionaries – Elder Eddy and Makono – did just that. The middle picture shows how many lessons are taught at homesteads in Swaziland. Mary and I were there also but the story is really about the Wilsons, the missionaries and Nahti.

The last picture was taken just before Nahti’s baptism service started and shows the Wilsons, Nahti, elder Makono and elder Eddy.