Pulsipher Zambia Mission: Mission Wide Baptism

Last week we had our Area welfare manager come from Johannesburg to see several of our projects.

While checking on Kaminembe School, we visited their community milling station. All the families in the area bring their maize here to be ground. Some goes to feed cattle but the fine stuff goes to feed their families. Usually they harvest enough to sell about 3/4ths of it but this year because of poor rains, it will mostly be used by the local families.

While checking on the Chainda Clinic, they were having a handover celebration for an internet/satellite system
that China had donated to the community. This was their school band.

At the Nchute school where we just finished getting water piped in,
the students were planting a garden for their science project.

At the Mugurameno clinic the church flushed out this borehole and a lot of mud and rocks came out.
So now the new solar pump that we bought can be inserted to provide the clinic with good running water.

This is for our Grand kids to show them how bananas grow upside down in clusters. This tree is at our Mission Office.

The church is providing the Jolly Horizon school that serves about 200 kids here in Lusaka, with materials for them to make desks. To get the wood, they took us to a wood-shop where they planed the wood with large machines.
OSHA would have a fit.

5 high stack of sawdust sacks being carried by a worker on his head

The wood for the desk tops and seats being unloaded at the school.

Father's Day cinnamon rolls! Yummy! The picture had to wait until we ate a few.

The highlight of this week was the Mission Wide Baptism. These pictures were from the Lusaka zones but similar numbers were baptized in Kitwe, Ndola, Blantyre, and Lilongwe districts.

It was an exciting day!

Members and Converts arrived on buses to participate. The faithful Musonda family from our ward.

Just a portion of the crowd for the baptismal service. It was held at the mission office.
You can spot Grandma standing by the bush in the very back.

The Stake President and his wife seated with all the baptismal candidates.

President Kupu spoke. This is their last event and he was quite emotional.
After 3 great years they are headed home to Tonga next week.

What a sight! There were 19 baptisms. The few extra were the baptizers.

Many young adults but a wide variety. A 71 year old man who was a refugee from Angola was baptized.
When he came up out of the water, he said "Praise God". He said had waited a long time to find the church.

These are some of the pioneers of the church here in Zambia.
They will be amazed at how blessed they are as they continue to be faithful.

Two of our referrals were baptized with this group. Martin on the left has a shop around the corner from us and Grandpa has had several meetings with him to answer questions and read the Book of Mormon together. Josphat Banda on the right is our guard. His wife and children are also being taught but she doesn't speak much English so it is hard for her to understand. We were very proud of these two. Mr. Banda's son Joseph (4) is also shown.