Wild, Wonderful Weekend

This has been a wonderful but exhausting weekend.  I arrived home on Thursday afternoon on the same plane as President and Sister Kretly.  What follows are pictures of our zone meeting, weddings, baptisms and the re-organization of the branch leadership in Quelimane.  On this Easter Sunday, we have had a lot of emotions as we prepare to leave in a week.  Here are some pictures that show the wonderful growth of the church here and our great missionaries.





This is zone conference on Friday.  Lots of good training about the growth of the mission, importance of rules in the mission and teaching skills.



Darling girls all dressed up for their parents wedding on Saturday.



No she isn't a child bride, Nadia is actually 21, but it was a little hard to believe
that in this dress.  Marta, in blue, speaks some English and had glitter make-up on
and was so excited about getting married.



President Kretly married these two couples and an hour later, we held their baptisms.
Thanks to a missionary mom for rings and new ties for the grooms!



This is our new and improved baptismal font.  It is a swimming pool and this model has been sent
to all the branches in the area.  The stairs are much more stable, but we sort of miss
the old tank with which we had an emotional attachment.



This is the biggest group baptism in Quelimane history. A family with three kids,
a young couple, and the nephew of a new member.  It was fabulous!

Our new branch presidency.  Center, Abel, branch president.  On the left, Rui is
the first counselor, Elder Guanuna on the right is the second
counselor and Rocha remains the secretary.  We also had an entire
presidency for the Elder's Quorum sustained as well, with Amizade as President.




The branch Primary has really grown and in order to facilitate actual
learning, we called two nursery leaders a couple of weeks ago.
Tinoca and Pascoa are wonderful with the kids and Primary runs more
smoothly without their noise.  We moved kids 5 years and younger
into this new class.