Mission Tour with Renlunds June 2012 -Part 2

  

Pointe Noire was the next destination on our mission tour with the Renlunds.  We held zone conference with the missionaries in the Wheatleys' home and then had a wonderful brunch provided by the Wheatleys.  There were four missionaries in this group whom we had only seen once just a few days after they arrived.  We could see tremendous growth in them in just a month.  Missions are such a maturing experience.

Jamesons, Renlunds and Wheatleys

 After another good four-hour conference with our dear missionaries, we went to  the Hotel Le Fez. One never knows what one will find when going to an African hotel. Price doesn't even tell you what kind of a place it will be.  We approached the hotel in the middle of town on a small dirt side street and wondered what we would find. It was probably the most unique place that we've ever stayed in our lives.  It was, as the name implied, very, very Moroccan.  From the minute the doorman opened the door,we felt like we had stepped into the movie "Casa Blanca."  We almost expected Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart to be sitting around the corner in the restaurant.  

  

 

       This mosaic displays were quite amazing. fountain was magnificent. The whole place was beautiful in its own kind of lavish, gaudy, over the top way.  There was certainly plenty to occupy the eyes in the cultural flair at the Hotel ,  .

Everybody was busy preparing on their i-pads for the next project . What would we do without technology?

Early the next day we were on our flight to Cameroon where we had gathered the Yaoundé and Douala missionaries for their zone conference with all the Cameroonian  elders and the Nuttals and Evansons.  After the conference we had a nice meal provided by the Nuttalls. Our senior couples do so much. 

They are the backbone of the mission. 

 

At the end of a busy week-long trip, the Renlunds headed home on the seven-hour red-eye  flight to Johannesburg.

We spent the night in the Hotel Bano Palace, one of the better hotels in our mission, and began our preparations for our next adventure- our first trip to Bangui, CAR.