The King & I in Africa: Sharing with the Basotho People

Unexpected opportunity to share the Gospel with the Basotho people

On the very last day of 2013, we had a most amazing experience.

On our drive back to Johannesburg we stopped at the Basotho Cultural Village,
another fun place Chris discovered for us :)

As we got out of the car the parking attendant greeted us and told us where to purchase entrance into the village. While we waited for the next tour I chatted with a man who was making pretty earrings and necklaces. He said to me "When your car came in I saw all this light and so I asked him (he pointed to the parking attendant) 'what is all that light' and he told me it is the light of Jesus Christ." (The parking attendant had noticed our missionary tags.) The man then asked me "Do you have a book? Do you have a bible or something I can have?" I asked him if he reads the bible. He told me yes he reads it every day. I told him that was great and that we had another testament of Jesus Christ that we would like to give him.

Chris went to the car to retrieve the little bag that we had prepared earlier with a Book of Mormon, Articles of Faith card and Plan of Salvation brochure. As he did so the parking attendant asked us if he too could have one. Then a lady came out of a door and asked if she could also have one! I was so very thankful that I just happened to have put 3 books in the trunk just in case someone wanted one! They asked us where the church was and we were able to tell them because we had just come from there.

We toured the village and as we returned to the car we noticed them actually reading! They said to us "see you on Sunday!" :)

We thought we were coming just to learn from them but they wanted to also learn from us and it was beautiful to share with each other.

They make their own beer and pass it around for all to sip from a gourd bowl called a calabash (of course you know we just jumped at that opportunity!)

This lady was grinding roasted maize. It is mixed with sugar or sweet sorghum & salt. The lady put a spoonful in each of our hands and it was very good.

They make fermented sorghum porridge and again passed the bowl around for everyone to sip from (was kind of sour like plain yogurt) and then they gave us a spoonful of maize that had been soaked then baked.

The X is where they would cook. They would build a fire in one of the four areas depending on the direction of the wind. Very clever. :)

Here's picture of them playing music. The handmade drum has little tambourine cymbal things on string stretched between the sticks. He beats the drum and chimes the cymbals. I'll try later to post a video of them playing.