Trust

Have you ever thought how important it was for Heavenly Father to trust His son to do what He said He would? President Probst shared many insights on Trust with us at our Zone Conference this week. Can the Savior trust YOU to do what YOU said YOU would do?

New pictures

Front row: President and Sister Probst (mission president), President and Sister Ladle (2nd counselor)

Back row: Elders Lewatle,  McGregor, Lindstrom, Umeh, Bangeter, Larrabee and Slabbert

This was our Zone conference  picture taken in May 2011.

Front row: Elders McGregor, Larrabee, Chitora and Lewatle
Back row: Elders Nkala, Lindstrom, Umeh, Bangeter, McDonald and Slabbert
This was taken June 5,2011

We had a quick change today. Normally our transfer day would be Wednesday, but today Elder McGregor left for Cape Town. He will finish his mission on Thursday.  Elder Larrabee left also for Cape Town to serve in another area.
No new elders until we have Visas approved, hopefully this week. Then we will lose Elders Lewatle, Umeh, Slabbert and Bangeter.

As each group of Elders leave, a little bit of my heart goes with them. I hope my heart starts to enlarge, otherwise, I will have to come home.  These are wonderful missionaries and I so appreciate the families sharing them with us.

Welcome to Namibia

Elder Nakala and Elder McGregor

We have waited 7 1/2 weeks to get all the elders here. Two elders without a companion joined together for 2 1/2 weeks and then we formed a threesome. They were great workers and learned a lot from each other. Finally on May 21st we got 3 more elders from Cape Town South Africa Mission. We were so excited when their Visas were approved. I thought you would like to see them.










                                                                                                     Elder Slabbert & Elder Chatora

Elder Umeh & Elder Bangeter (they have been here already)

Elder Lewatle and Elder MacDonald

Elder Larrabee & Elder Linstrom

God Be With YOU

April 27th these wonderful elders: Elder Schneider, Elder Penman and Elder Rogers went to South Africa on another missionary assignment. We expected to receive 3 more elders here, but have encountered VISA problems. That is nothing new, however. We hope that the new elders will soon receive approval to come to Windhoek, Namibia. This is a choice land waiting for the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Penduka means Wake-up

 Penduka was established in 1990 with just a handful of rural women.  They now employ over 100 women. They have learned how to embroidery, do batik and glass beads.

Batik is made with bread flour. This is a 5 step process.

The women embroidery their life history on various items.

They do glass beads from recycled pop bottles.



Okapuka Ranch

We were supposed to cross this river. This was the dry season. So we called and ended up driving up the NO ENTRY area and crossed on a foot bridge. EXCITING.

This was the view out the jeep. I chose the middle seat above the driver. She was the owner of the reserve.

A great family of Wart Hogs. They were all over.

No close up picture here. The rhino was right there. I could have reached out and touched this family.

We were instructed not to SCREAM or touch. So I was obedient.



Yo-Yo Day

I am embarassed about not writing and doing pictures. We have been super busy and had computer problems.

Here is a sample of our Preparation-day. Up at 6:45, walked until 7:38, breakfast, showers, organize go to the church 9:30am to meet electrician at 10. But first go to Katutura chapel to see if the lady next door is home so she can give us the yard clippers to cut down this very thorny bush like tree. She is leaving to take her blind son to the Mental Hospital. He lives with his dad. She gives me the clippers and we put them in the car then go to Windhoek Branch. We put gas in the car. Every 5-6 days we go 300km. How many miles? Who knows, a lot.

We call the electrician at 10:10, he will be here in 20 minutes. Call him in 30 minutes, he will be here in 15-20 minutes or NOW, not NOW, NOW as we would have hoped. We called the elders to pick up the clippers from us at Windhoek. They come and then we explain which bush/tree to cut.

The electrician did show up in less than 20 minutes. We had waited 45 minutes for him total. Take him to Katutura chapel to check out electrical. He says he will be done by 1. We leave him. We go back to the Windhoek chapel for correlation meeting. I wash all the blackboards after meeting. Not quite all, only about 4-5. Back home for a quick lunch, and to pick up the foot board for a stroke member that dad forgot to bring. We go back to Katutura and guess what, he isn't done.  I wash the black boards in Katutura, sand the holes I filled in YW room yesterday and scrub off the black marks on the outside walls some kids drew on the last few weeks. Will have to talk to the primary kids in a week when we have Primary. I also put up announcements and pictures of the YSA activity on the bulletin board.

The electrician is done, but he wants to be paid NOW, NOW. Doesn't he know the church doesn't do things like that. So we go to the nearest ATM give his worker boys $1200N and make them write a receipt. We would go deliver the foot board, but we got a call from DHL with two packages for me, from distribution. Whew. Back home and we just got the packages.

Got a phone call from an investigator who said she was 20km from Windhoek. She doesn't have a place to stay, but trusts God that he will help her.

Now back to deliver the foot board. Doug has been talking with Phkama from Cape Town about purchases for Katutura that we have to get ordered and picked up. I called the painters wife and have the color of paint to get to paint the room tonight before Katutura's correlation meeting at 7. I also have to get the food for a German meal tomorrow as the Elders are coming to dinner and the one being transferred is from Germany. I am fixing chicken schnitzel, cucumber salad, green beans, apple strudel. I am tired already and it is only 2:50pm.

We didn’t paint until Thursday am and it looks wonderful. It will be my last painting in Namibia. The rollers are long thick nap because the paint is like medium concrete to pour. It splatters EVERYWHERE and on EVERYONE.