We hold Church in a school in Ikageng. The branch leases two rooms for our full time use. One has a branch presidents office and a dividable RS room that we use half for a clerks/class room and half for RS. The other room is divided into three rooms. Two are used for Primary and the other is a store room for all the equipment and supplies. On Sunday we have use of a large classroom that can be divided into four rooms but on Sunday we use half for a chapel and half for a class room. The chapel room is used by others during the week so on Saturday afternoon it has to be swept, mopped and waxed for it to be suitable for Church. Different groups are assigned to clean each week but it usually falls to just a few faithful saints to do the work. This week it was sister Ratema and president Kwaikwai. Bill helped out for part of the time and the Institute students helped after their class.

Sunday was a beautiful Sabbath day. It was so nice that the Primary went outside for the second hour.

Other than the children and this one picture of President Kwaikwai with sister Brummer, all the other photos I took were of sisters in the ward. When I took the photos of sisters Thulo and Mothobi I did not notice they both had stripes.

When I snapped the photo of sisters Kwaikwai, Thulo and Mothobi I did know that the outside sisters had on stripes but for some reason it did not register that sister Thulo also had stripes in her sweater…it was not until I edited the photos that the pattern clicked. Two of the lovely YSA in the branch – sisters Neo and Ratema did not have any stripes.

  

However when I started looking at the photos of the day I noticed that there were stripes in two more of the photos. First there is the three YW and the child with her mother. Sister May is a recent convert.

The last photo is sister Lekebe who is carrying a container of sister Mary’s famous fresh achar – a spicy vegetable preserve that probably was introduced to South Africa from India. Most people do not realize that there is a large Indian population in South Africa. The majority live in and around the city of Durban making it ‘the largest ‘Indian’ city outside India.