South Africa Johannesburg Mission: November 2019

Thursday, November 28, 2019

2019 Nov 28 MLC

We had our Mission Leadership Council at 10 am to 4 pm on Thursday at the CES classroom next to our mission office.

All our zone leaders are in attendance with our Eswatini ZLs joining us by video conference.

After MLC, President Leavitt and I drove to Klerksdorp to have our interview dinner with Elder and Sister Rees. They had fixed a Thanksgiving lunch with the elders in their district and we feasted on the great food for dinner at the Rees' flat as we had a wonderful visit until 9:45 pm. They are doing great things there. Unfortunately, I didn't think to take a picture at dinner.

Elder Molteno and Elder Sommer (APs) teaching with our Eswatini zone leaders, Elders Hess and Willison, on the video screen and President Leavitt listening and I moved around to take photos of everyone and the stats and goals slides as presented.
We have 11 zones.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

2019 Nov 13 Transfer

Wednesday, 13 November 2019

We had six elders leaving and no one coming until a taxi driver at the airport was trying to take Elder Ncwocha, who flew in from California, somewhere and looked up the church name on his tag and miraculously called the mission office at 6 pm and Sister Truman was still there working and answered. The office elders went and picked him up last night.

Elder Green and Elder Smith picked up Elders Kisembo, Manzini and Matayaunga at 5:45 am and drove them to the OR Tambo airport to fly home.

Elders Flood, Forward, Mpapa, and Ncwocha (who arrived yesterday at the airport without our being notified) ate breakfast with us. They all had interviews until 2 pm with President Leavitt. The APs came and took Elder Mpapa to meet his family at the temple at 12:30 pm. He is going home with them. Elders Green and Smith picked up Elders Flood and Forward at 2:15 pm to the airport after we all had lunch. Elder Ncwocha went to the office for orientation and stayed with the APs until he joined his new companionship.

The Centurion/Midrand and Rabie Ridge elders came to the mission home for interviews and training.

Two other sets of companionships came in for special interviews with President Leavitt.
The APs came to the mission home. They went with me to KFC to pick up the chicken twisters I ordered for tomorrow's interviews at 9:15 (as I don't like to go alone after dark). We worked on the transfer (because of Elder Ncwocha's surprise arrival) until 10:45 pm.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

2019 Nov 12 Departing Interviews and Dinner

On Tuesday morning, the Eswatini elders ate breakfast and finished some interviews with President Leavitt. They stopped at McDonalds (there isn't one in Eswatini) for a late lunch on their journey back to their areas.

Starting at 2 pm, President Leavitt conducted departing interviews on Tuesday for Elders Kisembo, Manzini, Matayaunga and on Wednesday for Elders Flood, Forward, Mpapa.

All the elders were dropped off and they and their drivers could eat chicken stew and rolls if hungry. Elders weighed luggage, made memory pages, signed journals and visited.

The Eswatini Zone finished interviews and training with Sister Leavitt before leaving for Eswatini about 2 pm.

Before sitting down to our departing dinner at 8:45 pm, we received a call that a visa waiter was waiting at the Joburg airport. We hadn't been informed he was coming. Our office elders, Elder Green and Elder C. Smith, picked up Elder Nkwocha and brought him to the mission home. After greeting him, he ate with the office elders in the kitchen before retiring to bed while we finished dinner and held our departing meeting.