It was a very beautiful day in Ikageng but while the rain kept people home last Sunday, the school holiday kept the numbers down today. The students all went home and other families went traveling – some for fun and some for funerals. Hopefully in a couple of weeks things will be back to normal.

This was elder Liera last Sunday for serving in the Potch branch – he got his transfer notice of Friday evening. The rest are assorted pictures from the day – most taken between meetings and before the baptism.

It was an exciting day for the branch as Joshua and Adrian Gerber were baptized. Adrian is a big 14 and Joshua is a joyful 12 and they will add greatly to the AP in the branch. After he was baptized Joshua wanted to know how soon he could help with the sacrament – I told him he would probably receive the PH next week. Elder Liera baptized Joshua with family – their father came to watch the baptism. Their sister spoke about baptism and their mother about the Gift of the Holy Ghost.

 

Adrian was baptized by elder Alvial and then we took a group picture of all present. I am hoping for a picture from elder Alvial’s camera that will include me.

Elder Alvial showed himself to be an expert on emptying the font so no one got wet. I think everyone had a wonderful and spiritual morning as we all shared the sunshine, the spirit and the fellowship that is so prevalent in the branch.

Today was elder Liera’s mother’s birthday so I made a sign for him to hold while we took his picture and then posted it on FaceBook for his mother. We also had elder Alvial take our picture with him since he will be leaving the district on Tuesday. He served here with honor for 6 months.

Later we went out and tried to visit members but because of the school holidays and work most of them were not home so we had little success.But we enjoyed visiting with the couple who were home. At the Mogapi’s I tried to help set up their new TV antenna but I was not much help. In fact I thought I had really messed it up but finally got it back to the way it was. I am certainly not mechanically talented.

We then went to the chapel for a combined YSA/Youth activity that was scheduled to start after Institute. You can see how everyone reacts when I bring out my camera. Sister Ratema stepped in front of the the YW. Brother Lebona shows the victory sign, Omphile sticks out his tongue and sister Ledo looks kind of embarassed.

President Kwaikwai used the time to clip his nails…others posed in front of the schools colorful signage.

There was lots of good food – I ate very sparingly – and then it was time for games. After some rousing games of Book of Mormon Bingo, we said goodbye as the rest continue with UNO and Go Fish. After the fun and games everyone who was left pitched in to clean and set up the rooms for tomorrow’s meeting. We came home an collapsed!