Church services on Sunday were enlightening. We arrived late
because we couldn’t find the chapel—another senior missionary couple was
driving us since we haven’t had any “driving lessons” yet (left side remember)
and they hadn’t been to that chapel either. We were very, very impressed with
the speakers in sacrament meeting (since it was fast Sunday, a number of people
get up to speak.) The many young people who came up to share thoughts were
especially so. The Sunday school and Relief Society lessons were equally
excellent, not only the teachers themselves, but also the comments from those
being taught. My daughter Rachel and Las Vegas friends will understand when I
say it was like having a whole ward of Lynette Sorenson’s (Lynette is my very
intelligent South African friend who is so knowledgeable of the scriptures and,
of course, sounds just like these guys J
Some of the members here come from families that have been in the church since
it was established in Johannesburg in the late 1800’s but many, many more are
first or second generation members because the church is growing so rapidly here
and in all of Africa.
The meetinghouse is a beautiful brick building with lots of
wood in the interior. The grounds are also beautiful with lots of subtropical
foliage surrounding it. Like the neighborhoods, security is tight at the
chapel. A tall secure fence surrounds in and each incoming car is allowed
through a rolling security fence only by punching in a code. Sunday afternoon
was spent organizing a little and just relaxing, trying to convince our bodies
that the light outside meant that one o’ clock was not bedtime J
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