Transfer Monday and Vetkoek

It is “Transfer Monday” evening.  All the Elders who are being transferred will be called at sometime during this day.  If you are becoming a new leader in the Mission (District Leader or Zone Leader), the Mission President will call you directly.  If not, you find out during the course of the day from either the AP's or your Zone Leaders.

We try to have the Elders over at the close of the day because this is our last time to see those that are being transferred.  They use all of Tuesday during the day and all their Tuesday evening saying goodbye to Members and Investigators and in most cases they leave on Wednesday of the week.  In some cases, when they have to fly somewhere early on Wednesday morning, they have to leave Queenstown on Tuesday afternoon and stay overnight in East London.

We have invited them over for scones tonight or in South African language, we are having them over for “Vetkoek”.  We will have them here for only about 30 minutes so that they can get home on time.  We found out that Elder Madson, Elder Kintu, Elder Slabbert, and Elder Kivley will be transferred.  While we will miss them, we are anxious to meet the new Elders who we will be working with over the next couple of months.  Also of note,  Elder Radabe is going home on this transfer.  We wish him well as he returns to Johannesburg.

While they were enjoying the Vetkoek Sister Thomas made, Elders Lekgoate and Elder Lawson were called by the AP’s and told who their new companions will be.  You can see them on the phone getting the information first hand rather than from the mission grapevine, which is prolific.

You can see in the center photo, Elders Lawsen, Slabbert, Ngobeni, Lekgoate, and Pennington in upper right and upper middle are Elders Kintu and Smith.