Hall's African Mission

Thursday brought excitement and a little anxiety.   In an attempt to bring interest and improve the image of the church, we held an open-house at the Kyambeke Branch on Thursday.  To prepare for the open house, sacrament meeting was focused on families and the family night program. Speakers introduced the blessings and promises that have been made by our prophets about family night and the responsibility parents have to teach their children.  I gave a talk sharing our plans to start a family class as we had done in our other branches.  We encouraged the members to invite friends and neighbors to attend the class, emphasizing; “Strong Families, Build a Strong Village and a Strong Country”.   Large posters were hung in the village market and we gave the members some small flyers to hand out advertising the date, time and purpose of the open house.   The missionaries were ready for questions about the church and the Mission Public Affairs Couple (E/S Pugmire) came to support us.  We started at 12:30 and there was a wonderful calm spirit.  After a song and prayer we showed three short videos made in South Africa about African families.  The last video gave information about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  In closing we invited everyone back for family class next Thursday and the missionaries came to the front and said they would be happy to meet with anyone that wanted to know more about the church.  After the closing prayer we had refreshments.  It was well worth the effort and I think it helped others to realize that we are a church that loves and believes in families.

President Onesmus covering the windows so we could show the family dvd's from South Africa. Elder Pugmire and Daniel had extra cords and wires to work with but it finally worked out.

We put up 5 posters in the village market.  Each one shared a strong message about "Families" and how we could make our families stronger.

We had 11 investigators and about 35 members attend.  Even if it changes the opinion of 1 person in the village it was well worth it.