Daily Archives: December 4, 2014

A Trip to Botswana to See the Taylors…

With the permission of our mission president we took a three day trip to Botswana to spend some time with our special friends elder and sister Taylor. We served with them in Indonesia and they spent the first few months of this mission in the Joburg mission before going on to the Botswana mission where they were actually called.

dec14 - Bots - Welcome dec14 - Bots - us and Taylors in BotswanaThey have some major problems with immigration and so there are only 7 young missionaries serving within Botswana at this time. The mission president and his wife live there but the Taylors have only a few days left on their temporary visa and then they must leave. Hopefully their appeal with be granted so they can stay for another year.

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Elders Antonou and Basima are the only elders serving in Gaborone – that is pronounced Hab-a -roan-ee. Up north in Francis Town there are two elders and three sisters. Please pray that the government will allow the Lords missionaries to have visas so that they can bring others unto Him.

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Unusual Big 5 Carving…I do not imagine there are any senior couples who serve a mission in South Africa who do not come home with at least one carving, painting, or sculpture of the big 5 – that is cape buffalo, black rhino,leopard, elephant, and of course the mighty lion. We have seen many different ones but I think this is the first I had ever seen the big 5 carved on a large fish! It is carved front and back, 24″ long, about 5″ tall, 3″ wide in the middle and cost a whole $15 US! All the animals are great looking except for the leopard.

The carving is actually hollow at the bottom so we are thinking about how to add lights to make it even more interesting.