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.
Mary played and sister Thulo led the music.
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.
 
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.
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.
Talking of the Relief Society sisters practicing their song brought back many memories of coming into different RS meetings. Of course, none of the meetings had a keyboard, so the sisters would begin singing the prelude music. In my mind, they could have called off the lesson and just let them sing on – such deep wonderful voices. Some of the Pacific Islanders have similar voices and so I try to position myself during Relief Society so I can feel of those strong voices and spirits.
Thanks for our Tembe fixes!!
Yes the islanders really know how to sing but so do the South African saints. When we were in Richards Bay on our mission we would go to a branch in Enselini where a choir of 6-7 young men and women would sound like our ward choir back in Provo…As to the Tembe pictures – I think there must be a shortage of water there because the hole is shrinking and more and more elephants and other animals are always around. I am thinking that some of the usual watering holes have dried up and so they are all coming to this one. Today there was a herd of at least 20 elephants there along with a good size herd of nyalas.