Today was our LAST Friday in Swaziland and our LAST District Council and District Leader Council in Manzini.  They chose "God Be With You Till We Meet Again" for the closing  hymn  and I  couldn't even sing...  It was SO hard  to say good-bye to all the elders  in Swaziland and also to Tip Top, the groundskeeper at the Manzini Chapel, who has  become our good buddy... 

Our  Swaziland Elders

(Crazy  pose..)

District Leader Council  

Elders  Earl and Rea ~ Manzini Fairview Branch  

Elders Lee and Hlatshwayo ~  Nhlangano Branch

Elders  Behunin and Nielsen  ~  Mbabane Sidwashini Branch

Elders  Van Thiel ~  Mbabane  Branch

Elders  Leterme  and Smith

Tip Top, our buddy (after he took the photo of all of us) Ü 

After the meetings this morning, we went to the mall in Manzini  and got prints made at  Sun Express  Photo and said good-bye  to my  Korean friend  who works there.  We also stopped at Clicks and ran into Elder Mayisela's mother! It was fun to get a pic with her to send to him!  

We were excited to wake up this morning to photos of Tigist Ayele's wedding yesterday, to a cute Swedish missionary, Mattias Ridell, who served in the Ghana Kumasi Mission with her!  They were  married in Ethiopia today so that  she can get a visa  to be sealed in the temple in Sweden! His parents were there from Sweden!

Beautiful Bride and bridesmaids! 

Both sets  of parents

Thuli Fakudze has been staying in Ntondozi since December, taking care of her dad.

We decided to drive out to see her yesterday.  (She is staying 45  minutes  away ~  past Malkerns and Luyengo!)  Her baby, Siphosethu, turned 1 this month. 

It was SO fun to see her!!  

It was a very pretty drive but the roads were bad!

I like these white birds that hang around the cows and other animals.

I have never seen one this close! 

We  stopped and gave these two cute kids a lollipop...

His eyes were the biggest and most amazing I have seen!! 

Last  night we had our last lesson with the Mahlalela family. It went  well.  The elders  will keep  things going with them after we leave.... They  are  going on Tuesday to do service  at  Bheki Mahlalela's school, where he is headmaster. We had to get  a  picture before we left...Bheki, Nelisiwe and Philo (almost 11)  Their older kids were away at boarding school and our of town. We have  been  teaching them  with the elders and by ourselves  for about a year...But they have  still never made it to church...   She rarely gets  a Sunday off work  (Woolworth's) and when she does, they go "home" to their parents'  homestead almost to the Mozambique border!! 

(Haha! You will see in the next post that after seeing these photos, I decided I HATE the "no bangs" look on me, so I woke up the next morning and chopped my bangs!!)