At 7 pm, the missionaries gathered on Zoom to hear from our special speaker, Dennis Freire. Dennis is battling the effects of cancer and treatments. The missionaries enjoyed hearing from Dennis in the past and had asked how he is coping. Dennis gave a wonderful presentation. Listening and caring for Dennis strengthens the missionaries and Dennis. After Dennis spoke, President Leavitt and I shared our departing testimonies.
President and Sister Nielson are to arrive Thursday night, 29 October 2020, and we are to depart for home the next night.
Note:
I am writing this the night the Nielson's were to arrive. They found out Monday that their passports with their new visas were either lost or stolen when the South African Embassy employee deposited their passport and papers in the FedEx Box in California to be returned to the Missionary Department in Salt Lake City, Utah. FedEx doesn't have any record of the passports and papers.
Stay tuned....we won't be flying home Friday night. It looks like we are staying into November! We will start transferring missionaries back to their permanent mission assignments in Africa beginning next week, and continuing through November and December. Of our current 55 missionaries, 25 are our permanent missionaries, one of which finished 5 September, but is from Fiji and hasn't been able to go home.
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