Mission Tour

A mission tour is when we do a round of zone conferences accompanied by a General Authority, in most cases a member of the Area Presidency.  We recently had a mission tour with Elder and Sister Renlund.  We started out crossing the Congo River to attend a stake conference in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. We did leadership training  for Priesthood leadership and auxiliaries, attended and spoke at the adult conference session on Saturday and then attended conference in a large parliament building on Sunday. After conference we toured the Brazzaville ward buildings all afternoon.

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Neighbor Girls

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We were supposed to go to Douala, Cameroon the next morning, but an unexpected strike there forced us to call it off so we headed back to Kinshasa instead.

On Wednesday we returned to Brazzaville to conduct a zone conference with all the missionaries. Our Pointe Noire missionaries took the short 45 minute flight to join us in Brazzaville. We returned back across the river that same afternoon.

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We had a day of R&R and then conducted Kinshasa zone conferences Friday and Saturday.

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Renlunds left for Johannesburg and we prepared for a quick 2 night visit in Pointe Noire. We flew up Monday and returned Wednesday, making our 3^rd river crossing in 10 days!  We enjoyed spending time with the Baxters, who leave in just 2 weeks.