Today is transfers! Elder Smith and Elder Francis fly home tomorrow and Elder Mtyobile and Elder Musumhi have been transferred back to Johannesburg. So two trucks with 6 elders left yesterday morning for Johannesburg!  It is going to be different from now on with all Johannesburg elders here in Swaziland!  For the past 16 months, we have had elders from the Mozambique mission here and for 6 months had Madagascar elders here too.  None of them could get visas to serve in South Africa, so they all remained here.  Now the elders will be transferring back and forth much more often! We had 3 new elders come to Swaziland TODAY!  The 4th new elder, our new zone leader, will come tomorrow after he and Elder Sinclair attend MLC (Mission Leadership Council) in Johannesburg.

Elder Mbaki from Cape Town is serving with Elder Souza from Brazil 

in Manzini Ngawane Park

Elder Clawson from Preston, ID is serving with Elder Daybell from Utah 

in Manzini Fairview

Elder Behunin from Laverkin, UT is serving with Elder Dos Santos from Brazil 

in Mbabane Sidwashini

Elder Reneer from Lindon, UT is our new zone leader with Elder Sinclair.

Three weeks ago, Elder Smith took Elder Chikoore to Johannesburg to fly home mid-transfer! He had this photo taken with his last FIVE companions, who all served with him as zone leaders in our Ezulwini Branch!  How we LOVED working with these five elders! 

Left to Right: Elder Treasure (Idaho), Elder Sinclair (still here for 6 more weeks), Elder Smith (Ogden), Elder Cox (Australia) and Elder Chikoore (Zimbabwe)

FRIDAY, NOV. 2nd

Pres. Sithole called us just before 12:00 to say that a missionary from Fairview Branch, Elder Simon Sebuliba, was at the airport and needed to be picked up!! For some reason, there was a miscommunication and NO ONE knew he was coming in today!? So we picked up Pres. Sithole in Manzini and drove to the airport to get this cute elder! His parents are divorced. His mom is living Uganda and his dad who lives here is in South Africa right now.  So we took him to Matsapha to get something to eat at Galito's 

and his older brother, George came to meet him!  

 

George took his luggage and went back to work and we took Simon to the Manzini chapel to meet President Simelane to get released.... 2 1/2 hours later.... at 6:30 pm! So we spent about 7 hours with him! He is a great young man!