Mission Home

This is our second day in Mozambique ,Sept 22, 2013.  (We finally got a nights rest and shower.  If felt great after traveling for three days - Friday the 19th to Sunday the 21st.)  We are in the Mission Home with President (Paulo) and Sister (Adrianna) Kretly.  It was good to be with them again.  They worked with us our two years in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the CTM (MTC).  He was in the CTM Presidency with President (Don) Clark and she was in the RS with Sister (ZaZa) Clark.  We had a wonderful, ful week there with them in Maputo.

 This is Sis Kretly and her housekeeper Isobel.  She was a delightful lady and was so happy when Sister Kretly got her several uniforms to wear at work.  She wants to be baptized, but her husband(?) won't get married so she is waiting.  This is very common in Mozambique.  The custom is a Bride Price (usually quite a lot) and an expensive party and no one can afford it,  so they just live together.  Her daughter is in Provo now at the MTC preparing to go to Madagascar on her mission.

 This is the view from the Mission Home deck.  Much building happening in Maputo (great for the country) and that is the Indian Ocean.  They hope that the apartment building being built right behind them is not going to completely block their view.  The Mission home is on what is called Embassy Street...about 10 countries have built there.  Not the US, they are in several blocks and kind of a non-nondescript building.  We didn't dare take pictures of it all because we didn't want to get hauled of to jail.