Progress

The highlight this week was our Stake Conference.  It was excellent and the building was filled to the brim.  Many local members gave great talks and Elder Matswagothata, an Area 70, spoke.  We were challenged to be better parents and examples, serve diligently in our callings, minister to others, share the gospel, seek to attend the temple, and draw closer to Christ.  Sorry no pictures of conference. 

  This week we visited many ongoing and potential projects.  

Lupani School building continues to rise.  Hope to complete in early April. 

 

Mazyopa school now has walls and a roof.  Cement floor and plastering is next.

Community men digging a Latrine at a health clinic where the church is providing medical equipment
 

One class at a community school.  These community schools struggle to get consistent teachers because they aren't government supported.  We are hoping to help them finish a small two-teacher house.  They have made all the bricks and have the sand and gravel already. Once completed, the government has agreed to send paid teachers. 

This community has already dug the foundation for the teachers house.

We were also impressed that they have a school garden to provide some food for the students and teachers.  But cattle keep coming in and destroying their vegetables and plants.   So we hope to get them some fencing.  

This school also has a grove of banana trees that they provide to the students.  Too often they only get one meal a day so growing food is very important to them.  They also want buy 200 chicks to raise then sell for meat to provide funds for the teachers.  They would use some of the proceeds for buying more chicks.  Sound like a great sustainable effort.

We Washingtonians are fascinated by these banana trees where the bananas grow upside down.

On our travels we see a lot wild orange sunflowers growing. The bushes and trees here have beautiful colored flowers too.

These seem to be just like our yellow sunflowers but they are orange.

Look, a two headed goat!  Ok, not really but we do see a lot of goats around.

This week was International Women's Day.  To celebrate here they had a big parade with many, many women's groups participating.  We had a better video where you can hear each group of women singing but it was too long for the blog, sorry.  

A recent convert family just had a new baby, Lehi, with his older brother and sister looking on. So cute!

The Musonda family, recent converts.  They are so faithful and growing so much in the gospel.  He was just called as the Sunday School President.