Daily Archives: March 15, 2015

Sunday – Angels Singing and Cosmos Blooming

The RS sisters are scheduled to sing in sacrament meeting next week so they took this opportunity to get in a good practice. Once they had finished going through the song they have chosen to sing, they just kept sining other songs together. It was lovely to stand and listen to their beautiful voices as they sang with the same spirit that I hear when I listen to the Tab Choir.

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Mary played and sister Thulo led the music.

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The YSA sisters stood in the back as did brothers Lebona and Mhike…I just noticed Jacque Kruger was also back there. I think from looking at the picture below the YSA sister took a couple of seconds away from singing to pose for my picture.

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Last year, soon after we arrived in Potch, elder Knowles drove with us out to Parys. Along the way he had us stop along the road so he could take pictures of us among the large field of cosmos blooming along the road.

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Since we dropped one of our riders off only a couple of kilometers from that field we decided to duplicate the experience . We found that the area we were in last year was almost barren of blooms but just a few hundred feet down the road there was another field. Since elder Knowles was not along only Mary got in these pictures – I call it my beautiful rose among the cosmos.



Sunday – Big Turnout – Small Room – Great Spirit

Due to an election that was supposed to be held today during our normal block time, we held just a sacrament meeting in the Relief Society/branch president’s office area. We were able to put seating for between 45-50 people in the main area and another 14-15 in what became the over flow area. By the time the last person had come to our meeting, there were 71 in attendance. By small children sitting two on a chair and elders Alvial and Liera standing, we managed to get every seated for the hour meeting.

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Sister Disney Thulo just got a new job that will take her out of the branch and up to Johannesburg – the Florida area. We will miss her as she has been our diligent YW president for over a year. Brother Tinashe Mikhe joins the lovely Disney for a photo.

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Two of our beautiful young primary sisters. Lorato is one of Mary’s best piano students.

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Two of our lovely YSA sisters. Elder Alvial has no trouble lifting Joshua Gerber. It is nice to see that Joshua has the cast off his foot and is again playing cricket. He wants to be a professional cricket player.

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Antoinette and Simon Tlotleng (pronounced something like klukling) are one of the great couples in the branch. Brothers Adam Lebona and David Rampai with sister Meisie Ratema – I see brother Simon smiling in the background.

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We have great youth in our branch. Papa Thulo – his actual given name is Keamogetse but I can not get my tongue around that and everyone calls him Papa – among a group of the YW. Jacque Kruger is the teachers quorum president and my home teaching companion. He is another of Mary’s piano students.

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Shavonne Kruger, Nasi (Nthabeleng) Williams and Millicent Tloteng pose for a picture. As does sister Thulo in another of her beautiful dresses.

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As I was going out to the car I saw sisters Bummer and Mothobi are discussing RS business. Neither seem happy when they notice I am taking pictures…sorry sisters I am a candid camera type.