On Saturday the Potchefstroom, Klerksdorp and Jouberton branches youth got together at our building and had a wonderful dinner dance. What made it unusual was that the YM were responsible for everything – the food, decorations, serving and clean-up. The YW got to watch “Meet the Mormons” while the room was getting made ready. Then they were escorted by the YM and seated at the tables. The three courses and drinks were served by the YM and all enjoyed the meal. After dinner was finished, the YW were able to go out and take lots of Selfies while the YM took down the tables and chairs and made the room ready for the dance.

As you can see from the pictures not all those who enjoyed dancing were quite YM or YW age but they all had great fun and worked up a nice sweat. I think everyone had a great time and there are plans being made for future tri-branch youth gatherings over the year.

I will write more about the pictures below when I have a little more time.

            lace Marker for lots of pictures…

Today I get to post about two of the beautiful women in my life…Last night while we were visiting a family this young lady fell asleep in Mary’s arms. She knew a grandmother when she saw one. Also yesterday we found out that our daughter Cindy Mitchell was chosen as the UELMA Teacher Librarian of the year. When I went looking for a picture of Cindy I came across this one with her, Mary and our granddaughter Gentry Bartholomew who will soon be giving birth to another of our great-grandsons!

    

I know that I post about our district and zone development meetings every Friday and that there is little new to write about , but it gives me a reason to post pictures of the missionaries in our district and zone so that their parents can see their sons and learn a little more about what they are doing. This week was rather special because it was elder and sister Dummer’s last Friday and therefore their last DM in South Africa. They are going to leave the mission next Tuesday and the two branches they have been so diligently serving, the missionaries in Klerksdorp and Jouberton, and ourselves will greatly miss them and their talents.

One funny thing happened before the meeting started. Our Ikageng elders were late getting to the meeting and so everyone started calling and texting them to find out where they were. We all got in the action so they received calls from the other elders and the senior missionaries.