Monday visit to the Area 0ffice

Monday we went to the Area office to attend the devotional. Nicolette from the finance department gave a wonderful talk on love.

The Blake's who are the couple who replaced us as Area Welfare Managers asked me to come to their office after the devotional for a visit. While I was there Melvern stopped by. Melvern, works in fleet. Malvern is a wonderful young man who always has a smile on his face. After the devotional we went to lunch with Thabo and Phillip.

Thabo Lebethoa was the Area Welfare Manager when the Lee's first arrived in Johannesburg for their Area Welfare Mission. When we arrived in Johannesburg Thabo was the Self Reliance Manager and Phillip Moatlodi was the Area Welfare Manager. We had several meetings at Mike's with these two good men. So we decided for old times sake we would have lunch at Mike's. Thabo has been the Soweto Branch President but he was recently called to be a Mission President in Cape Town. He leaves in July. Phillip is still the Area Welfare Manager.

After lunch, we took Brent home and Charlene and I drove out to Topsy retail store but the shop has closed. So we  headed to Rosebank African Market. We decided to stop at McDonalds and have our tradional ice cream cone.  

 I remembered I liked the shop at the lake called Mayo so we skipped Rosebank and headed to Zoo Lake. I bought a handbag and two wooden bracelets.  We came back and I tried to lay down for awhile because I had a really bad headache. Then we went to FHE for the Blake's farewell talk. The Blake's replaced us in the Area Office so it was fun to hear about some of the experiences.