We are in Makeni for the weekend. Tomorrow Makeni will be made
into a District. We had leadership training this morning for all the
leaders in the 3 Branches that are here. There is a lot of excitement
about becoming a District. This evening we had our 8 young
Missionaries over for dinner and then a district meeting. President and
sister Clawson arrived on Friday shortly after we did and we had a taco
dinner and spent the evening together. That was sweet. Tonight they
shared with the missionaries the things they learned in Ghana from
their Mission President's training they attended last month. They also
told us that the Kissy District (in Freetown) is going to be made a Stake
on June 18th, the Freetown Stake is going to be split into two Stakes
before the end of the year and there are two other districts getting real
close to becoming a Stake. By this time next year there will be 5 Stakes
in Sierra Leone. Right now we have one. Our full compliment of
Missionaries is 160. We are currently at 133. We will reach 160 in
September. President Clawson has requested 50 additional
Missionaries bringing our full compliment up to 210. The reason for
this is that it was discovered that there are some self-established home
groups in the outer provinces. There is one that has 4 members and
their average attendance at their Sunday meetings is 78. This particular
group is 4 hours north of our closest district that can support them.
There are also two other groups within 10 miles of each other that
didn't even know the other one existed and these groups are south of
Kenema. Kenema is 4 hours from Freetown. The growth of the Church
in West Africa is phenomenal!
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