Cape Town Mission Field 

29 January 2018
Day 51
Monday


It seemed like a rather normal day today. Mostly just catching up on items around the office. We are getting prepared for transfers this week. We are gaining two new missionaries but losing three. One vehicle in the East Cape had the wind blow the door out of the elders hand while opening it up and it damaged a car parked next to him. Ah, the joys of being the vehicle coordinator.

We did open up our ldschurch.org email accounts (which we normally don't use) and found a couple of real nice emails from Brad Burgess and Michael Wright from our home ward in West Jordan (Welby 1st Ward). Their messages were really touching and timely. We loved hearing from them and appreciate their thoughtfulness.

It was a very difficult day for Elder Keetch though. He is one of the Mission AP's (Assistants to the President) working in the Mission Office with us. His father (Elder Von G. Keetch) passed away last Saturday very suddenly from a brief and sudden illness. There is a short announcement about his passing on the front page of the LDS.ORG website. He was 57 and had been serving as an area Seventy, specifically as the executive director of Public Affairs. President Palmer, a councilor in the Area Presidency, flew in from Johannesburg with his wife to meet with Elder Keetch and express the love and concern for him. Elder Keetch has decided to complete his mission assignment, before going home, even though he only has a couple months left on his mission. Elder Keetch is a wonderful missionary with a beautiful spirit and we feel very sorry for his loss at this time. Elder Keetch's father wrote him a letter, a real letter with postage stamps, every week of his mission. He asked Sister Courtright to hold on to any more letters that may come in the mail for him from his father and give them to him when he is ready to read the last letters from his father.

Elder Von G. Keetch of the seventy

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