August 30, 2012

 We spent the night in a flat near the Fowers that can be rented out a night at a time.  They live in a nice area with a wonderful view overlooking a small valley and a lot of trees where monkeys play sometimes in the morning. 

 Unfortunately, not this morning.  We ate breakfast with them, and then headed to the stake center where the conference was to take place at the Amalinda chapel in East London. 

We were inspired listening to the Woods and the Cooks present great information on how paying tithing helps people grow in the gospel.  The members in our branch really struggle with paying tithing.  They just don’t understand how important it is and how much they will be blessed by just doing it. Hopefully, we can pass this information on to them in a different way that will inspire them to do better. 

We had pizza and salad for lunch and took a couple of pictures with the Cooks.  (Unfortunately, they got wiped off of our camera a while later.) As they say here in South Africa… shame. Now this is a really big “SHAME”. (Okay, it was a trial, but I did get over it). We do have a picture of our Elders together with us and one of Elder Dale with the Cooks.

We then all gathered together where Sister Wood recorded our Zone singing the SACTM song.  It was pretty cool. It was a great conference, we left feeling inspired and ready to do better.