{"id":6852,"date":"2014-04-29T02:56:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pierfamily.com\/wordpress\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2019-08-21T14:27:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T21:27:55","slug":"catching-up-5-the-knowles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pierfamily.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/29\/catching-up-5-the-knowles\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up #5 – The Knowles"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the great blessing we have had on this mission was the fact that elder and sister Knowles were serving here before we came. They are a great couple who served as branch president and relief society president. They had the daunting task of finding a new place for the branch to meet and then getting it in shape for meetings, storage and offices. I am sure the Lord knew that this was not something we would do very well so sent the Knowles here first.<\/span><\/p>\n

They lived in Johannesburg to be near her ailing mother and so they drove about 4 hours each day to work in Potchefstroom and Ikageng. In working with them for about a month before they went home, it was easy to see how much they loved the members and how the members loved them. They are truly a hard act to follow but we will try our best.<\/p>\n

\"Knowles<\/a> \"Knowles<\/a><\/p>\n

The Knowles with elder Bird who served here as district leader. Then with Lolo who is the humble woman who runs an orphanage with 13 orphans. I will write more about this a little later.<\/p>\n

\"Knowles<\/a> \"Knowles<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the last activities the Knowles organized was a temple trip where 6 members received their endowments and a couple was sealed for time and all eternity. Before they left the branch planned a farewell party. \u00c2\u00a0It was all done by the branch with almost no help from us.<\/p>\n

\"Knowles<\/a> \"Knowles<\/a><\/p>\n

At the party members of the branch expressed their thanks and gave them presents for them to remember the branch. You could tell the expressions of thanks came right from their heart. Just a couple of weeks before they were scheduled to be released sister Knowle’s mother passed away. It was a tender blessing for sister Knowles since her mother had been ill so long.<\/p>\n

\"Knowles<\/a> \"Knowles<\/a> \"Knowles<\/a><\/p>\n