Wow! After much work etc. we are here. I will tell you where here is a little later.
I still don't have internet service so I am on somone elses computer and can't post pictures, hopefully next week there will be some pictures . We spent two week ends in Salt Lake ,with Larry's sister and her husband Jack they were bookends to our week in the MTC. I mean the bookends were the week ends not Golda and Jack. On those 2 weekends we were able to watch the live broadcast of the "Mormon Tabernacle Choir" It was wonderful.
Jack and Golda dropped us off at the MTC on Monday morning,Oct.31st. We met alot of couples going to many different places in the world from Mongolia to Chuk an island in the South Pacific. They put us through our paces for 5 days. What a sight to eat three meals a day with 3000 missionaries.
November 7 we boarded a plane in Salt Lake bound for Johannesburg, South Africa!
It is a long long plane ride! It was so exciting to be Johannesburg again. Everything was beautiful. The Jacaranda trees are all blooming so the city is colored purple.
We even remembered our way around the city, on the left hand side of the road. We were in Johannesburg a week and we were able to visit church in Kagiso on Sunday.
This is the ward we served in ten years ago. We arrived early so we could greet everyone as they came in. There were many hugs, kisses and tears. I just sat through Sacrament meeting and cried it was so wonderful to be with those people again. many of the people we taught were there. It was so good to see that they had made it through the early stages after baptism to activity, temple endowments, and callings.
I felt like I was having a wonderful dream only it wasn't a dream! One family we worked with before is not active, that is the Cummin family. But there son who was 13 when we were there before has a job that takes him away on Sunday. The Bishop told us he puts on his white shirt and tie once a month and walks to the church to give the Bishop his tithing.
We have been assigned to Gaborone, Botswana, they flew us here and we are still living with another couple until this coming week when we can move into our own flat.. Our assigment is to work with two branchs. The Labotse Branch and the kanya Branch. Today we were able to be be in the Labotse Branch. It is a small Branch, there were probably about 50 people. We were able to attend the baptism of two men after church. Their baptismal fount is about a 6 foot circle 4 ftt deep tub placed under the trees in the church yard..
Our blog was haply named "Moss Tales From the Bush" who knew that we would truly be in the bush in Botswana. so far our only animals have been Baboons which are along the roads and byway's. In Botswana we will be working with Elder and Sister Kimball and Elder and Sister Rand. Some of you who read this will know who they are.
We are very grateful to be here. what a wonderful opportunity to serve the Lord as missionaries. What a blessing to have the time to focus completely on the work of the Lord for a season.
Elder and Sister Moss
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Gaborone, Botswana
