PINCH ME PLEASE

We were asked to share a presentation to the Huruma Branch on how a Branch Council Meeting can be used to generate ideas on self-reliance for branch members. We introduced many of the Branch Council members to the Handbook 2/Administering the Church as well as the talk by Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Providing in the Lord’s Way from the Oct Conference. Elder Babcock handed out a design plan for making a Solar Dryer. The idea of drying fruits and vegetables in the sun was a new concept for the members. We offered to help the Elders Quorum set up a dryer inside the Huruma Branch compound. Poles for the dryer were needed so Elder Babcock and our guard, Koskei, spent a morning obtaining a permit to cut poles (small trees) in a Kenyan forest. The next day Bruce, Koskei and I picked up the Kapsaret District Forest Manager, Gurro, and headed for the Kapsaret Forest. We obtained our poles, had three Kenyan forest guards come to help, and shared a missionary lesson with the guards. What a day! Pinch me please –did I really find myself in a Kenyan forest, with three Kenyan guards, cut down poles, and teach the guards about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?