When we got home from South Africa there were so many things to do to catch up that blogging was put aside. However, I'm now going to do a couple more blogs about our South Africa stay. The last delay in our coming home to Kinshasa was caused by yet another potential "hot spot" in the road back to "normalcy" in the Congo. So we stayed a couple of extra days.
We attended church in a ward near the temple that is mostly composed of Congolese. It was really fun to be there and made us feel like we were back in the Congo as we saw the beautiful Congolese dresses, hear French spoken, heard singing with voices that reach to the angels, and felt the spirit of this group of fairly recent and relatively poor transplants to South Africa.
They meet in the first chapel constructed in South Africa in the 1980's. At that time apartheid was still in effect and by law only whites were allowed to worship in the church. They say that black believers used to sit outside the windows and listen to the meetings. Now this ward has no white members, except the American missionary area couples assigned to attend this ward.
It was really fun to attend in this historic, old building with these good saints.
1 comment:
How neat. (And what a cute little baby!)
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