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Here is a photo journal of this past week....
 
On Sunday, February 2nd we visited a family in Dondo. This is a photo of Mom 

and I with the parents in front of their home.

Also, this past Sunday we visited this family in Munhava. The daughter on the far right is the new seminary teacher for this year. Her name is Teresa Marcia Machate, she is 19 years old. The girl with the purple braids in her hair is a 15 year old cousin who is not a member. The father has been less active but told us as we were leaving that he and his family are coming back to Church.

 

 

We visited another family in Munhava and sat outside. Here are some of the neighbor kids who came to see what was happening.

 

All of these kids are gathered around Mom as she shows them the photo she took of them.

 

 

The man in front is Tasara Makasi. He served as a stake president in Zimbabwe for 8 years and now serves as the director of Seminary and Institute for South East Africa. He is very soft spoken and humble. He is one of the great leaders in Africa. The white man bending over is Richard Hawks. He is an area director of Seminary and Institute and serves as a bishop in Orem. We enjoyed the training we received from these two good men.

 

 

The elders in Manga have been without electricity for about a week. Without A/C it is very hot at night and hard to sleep. We know because we went to a hotel. They received permission to sleep at the Church in Beira because it has a generator.

 

 

On Tuesday, February 4th we picked up Elder Kelly from Austin, Texas. His companion was not told of his arrival and when we made it to their apartment it was 11:15 PM and everyone was sound asleep. Elder Kelly had to scale the pole to reach their apartment and after pounding on the glass for about 10 minutes was able to wake his new companion.

 

 Elder Kelly on the outside balcony.

This good man is Miguel Fernando Fombe. He is 27 years old, married with two children, and was baptized on December 1, 2012 and in May, 2013 was sustained as the Branch President of Munhava. On Thursday, February 6th he gave me the Temple Patron Assistant Fund Form on behalf of his family and two other families. He has a strong desire to go to the temple and be sealed to his family. In his left hand is his copy of True to the Faith that we gave him last Saturday in a training meeting for the branch presidents. This photo was taken just outside the business where he works.

 

The fruit market we visit also had these two women preparing a goat !!! By her feet are the parts she has already cut up.

 

 

This is Fazelito Basilio Vontade he is from Munhava 2 and has received a mission call to Lisbon, Portugal. He is 23 years old, and the only active member in his family. 

 

He lives by himself in a small home without electricity. He does not have a watch and his phone was without credit. His branch president told me to meet him at 7:30 AM at the Church while he told Fazelito to meet first thing...gratefully, we arrived within 20 minutes of each other. I help out by driving the prospective missionaries to the various immigration departments.

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