3-4 February 2018 Mbabane District Conference

3-4 February 2018 Mbabane District Conference

Saturday, 3 February 2018

President Leavitt met with the District Presidency and went on member visits during the morning. Sisters Leavitt, Willis and Foxx and Elder and Sister Wold joined President Leavitt for the Mbabane District Priesthood and Auxiliary Training meetings from 2-3:45 pm at the Manzini Chapel. We all led the training for the organizations in different rooms.

At 4 pm, President Leavitt and I spoke at the Mbabane District Conference adult session.

(On Friday night at the Manzini Chapel, the SAJM Presidency, President Leavitt and President Simelane, 2nd Counselor (who lives in Swaziland), and President Wagner, 1st Counselor, (joined on video camera from Johannesburg) had a meeting with the Mbabane District Presidency.)

Sunday, 4 February 2018

We all traveled to the Mbabane Chapel for the Mbabane District Conference where President Leavitt and I spoke. Dane's brother, Mark and his wife, Jana, had just finished with a tour group. They drove down from Hazey View in Kruger Park, arriving just before the meetings started.

This is how everyone was greeted as they entered the chapel.

Mark and Jana followed us across the border and on to Ermelo, where we stopped to teach a family whose father has joined the church in America while doing his doctorate. His family wanted to be taught the gospel. There is not a branch and we have no missionaries in Ermelo, but we all pass their house and their small school on our way to and from Swaziland. They are wonderful people. We taught the Restoration Lesson and left materials for them to read and learn from. If they all join the church, they can use the Family Guide Book to worship for now. We arrived home just after 10 pm.

Here is a picture of us in front of the mission home taken during the week they were here. Each day they went and discovered things to do and see in this area while we worked with the missionaries. They joined us for our departure meal and meeting on Wednesday evening. On Friday, before dropping them at the airport for their flight home, Mark arranged for us to tour a diamond mine.