Tasara visit and YSA Center

On May 27th we picked up Brother Tasara Makasi from the Airport - He is our direct manager but lives in Zimbabwe.  We were able to be at the first Johannesburg YSA Sacrament meeting in their new chapel complex.  There were about 170 young adults and friends there.  We may be able to work from there in a little while. Here Tasara is talking to some of his Returned Missionaires - young men who served under him as Mission President.
Tasara teaching about BYU Pathway - we brought masks and phone holders to hand out after the meeting. There was also a Self Reliance and PEF presentation for the saints.
We sat on the back row - there were two overflow rooms full also!!  
This is Keiley Makasi, Tasara's niece.  She is leaving next week on a mission to Democratic Congo - she goes to the MTC in Ghana to learn French!  We have no young sisters in our mission so I told her she would be my adopted sister missionary - since my other missions I have loved the sisters so much.
Tasara and other church leaders he came to meet with - BYU Pathway is amazing.
Keiley had just been to the Temple and was so much fun to chat with!  
Tasara, his sister and Keiley - such wonderful people we get to meet and serve with!!  
 

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