A White Christmas Early

This is a first Airport experience, for Francis Kioko & his little family!!

The flight in the plane was a real treat for them.

President Robert Egunza had flown before, but not Sister Victoria his wife or any of the other children.  They all very much enjoyed it!

We all arrived safe and sound, none the worse for the flight.  The Johannesburg International Airport, was in itself a  wonder as they walked thru it to the baggage claim and then to wait for our transport to the Temple!

All of these wonderful members were very humble at the Temple, and thought the grounds were beautiful.

 

We are very grateful for the blessing to be with the Saints from Changamwe Branch, Mombasa, Kenya.  It may be the only time they will attend a Temple, but they now have the "spirit of the temple" in their hearts; they said they will ever be grateful for this experience.

 

 

The Egunza Family:  Grandfather Frederick in the back middle. Robert ( to the left) is the Branch President of the Changamwe Branch.

The complete group who attended. (Back,left to right) Francis Kioko & wife Sarah, Victoria & Robert Egunza, Herbert & Grandfather Frederick Egunza, Martha Mutia, Maureen & baby Adams, David Kamau.  (Front row)  Three Egunza girls, Valentine, Lillian, Neema and us.  Baby Rachel Kioko & Nicole Kioko.

This is our dear friend Martha.  She cleans our flat.  She was sealed to her husband who passed away many years ago before she even joined the church.  She is so happy that she now has a "marriage certificate" and she bought a silver wedding band in the distribution center that she treasures. She is now very proud to show that she is a married woman.

Bro David, Sister Maureen and baby Adams Kamau.  A Wonderful family, now "for time and all eternity".  They said they could not be more happy.  They had a baby daughter "Angel" also sealed to them, it was beautiful.  Sister Scott served as proxy for Angel.  Angel passed when she was 8 mos old.  David says now that he is at peace with her passing knowing that they will always be a family.

 The Francis Kioko  family traveled with us, they are from Athi River Branch just outside of Nairobi, he is President. A sweeter couple you'll never meet.  He said that his experience left him "smiling on the inside" the entire time he was in the temple.  I watched him & he was smiling on the outside as well.

Bro Michael Miller with his wife Bron and baby girl Carmen.  He served as a missionary in Kenya when we served in 2006-2008.  They have come to visit us each time we visited the Temple.  They live in South Africa about 40 minutes from the temple.  His parents are temple workers.  His father did the sealings for our group.  We love this little family!!!

Icing on the cake was visiting with Elder Ross & Betty Bishop while in Johannesburg.  They serve as Office Couple for the Johannesburg Mission.  They spent the entire afternoon in the temple helping us with sealings, and endowments.  We so appreciated the time spent with them while in Jo-Berg!!  We are grateful they took some time off to be with our group.  We now have another couple that we can talk to about the "Africa Experience"