Category: Temple Experiences

A Hundredth Part

Post author By Debbie
Post date September 24, 2024
Categories In Quotes, Spiritual Experiences, Temple Experiences, The Amazing People Along the Way, Travel Experiences, Visits from Home

The day in, day out happenings of this mission keep us so engaged that it is unfortunately not possible to write about everything we’d like to in this blog. There are many unforgettable people, events, miracles, learnings that will remain forever recorded on the fleshy tablets of our hearts. …nor even in the space of […]

The Temple is Open Once Again

Post author By Debbie
Post date May 6, 2024
Categories In Languages in South Africa, Spiritual Experiences, Temple Experiences, The Amazing People Along the Way, Visits from Home

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 6 weeks is a very long time and we couldn’t be more excited to be back in the temple! Kirk and Sue stayed an extra week after the closure so that they could spend some time with us in the exquisite Durban temple. We were able to fully complete Sue’s father’s […]

First Visit from Home

Post author By Debbie
Post date April 7, 2024
Categories In Love from Home, Temple Experiences, Travel Experiences, Umhlanga. place of reeds, Visits from Home

The temple was fully closed for the last two weeks of March so this was a great time for Kirk and Sue to come visit! We had time off to take them around to enjoy South Africa! A day trip to Tala and PheZulu Village— just an hour away from our apartment—Incredible wildlife!! Sadly at […]

Learning Portuguese

Post author By Debbie
Post date March 29, 2024
Categories In First Wave Temple Missionaries, Languages in South Africa, Temple Experiences, The Amazing People Along the Way

Though the temple is closed, we are invited to come and put the luxury of extra time to good use: We helped Sister Patricia complete the inventory of all items in the temple laundry. We learned all about the TIS (Temple Information System), so we are more fully qualified to prepare schedules etc and serve […]

The Meyers from China

Post author By Debbie
Post date February 26, 2024
Categories In First Wave Temple Missionaries, Temple Experiences, The Amazing People Along the Way

Our new friends, the Meyer’s, from Wuhan, China have been members for 20 years. They live right near where the Covid virus got loose and Esmeralda was in lock down for 3 months away from her children before she was allowed to go home. They come to Durban for a week each year to do […]

Regulars at the temple

Post author By Debbie
Post date February 8, 2024
Categories In First Wave Temple Missionaries, South African Deliciousness, Temple Experiences, The Amazing People Along the Way

After a month here in the Durban temple, we have gotten to see some of the same faces return regularly and have realized there is nothing regular (other than their attendance) about these amazing people. They are a temple-attending people and we love them! Meet the Slabberts, Vanessa and Andre. After a few times seeing […]

A message and dessert with the elders!

Post author By Debbie
Post date February 4, 2024
Categories In First Wave Temple Missionaries, Languages in South Africa, Quotes, Temple Experiences, The Amazing People Along the Way, Umhlanga. place of reeds

We all got together with Elder Durfey, from Highland, Utah, my sister’s next door neighbor, and his companion, Elder Fenn. They are assigned the branch nearby where we live here in Umhlanga. The Elders dazzled us with their ability to speak Zulu, clicking and all! It’s really a beautiful language and a tough one to […]

South Africa gets in to your heart!

Post author By Debbie
Post date February 4, 2024
Categories In Temple Experiences, The Amazing People Along the Way

Aaron Gibbons and his family live in South Jordan, Utah. Brother Gibbons was a missionary serving here in South Africa in 1998-2000. He brought his wife back in 2020 for the Temple Dedication. Last Tuesday he brought his 17-year old son Noah to the Durban temple to do baptisms. They said, we want to do […]

We’ve traded places…

Post author By Debbie
Post date January 26, 2024
Categories In Temple Experiences, The Amazing People Along the Way

We were privileged to assist as this beautiful, poised, righteous young sister received her endowment today! Sister Gamele has received her call to serve in the ….. Wait for it…… Salt Lake City Temple Square mission!!! Be sure to stop by and visit her when you are in the vicinity!! She’ll be there soon!! There […]

A good day in the Baptistry

What a busy and exciting day in the baptistry! This week another large group of faithful Saints took the 13 hour taxi ride from Mozambique to join us at the Durban temple. The church provides a VW bus taxi with a trailer for luggage. We have patron housing on the temple grounds for them to […]