A cool start

Miss Vanilla at the ice skating ring

A great way to start off 2014, as you know Judgeworry is famously known as boring broke and back to reality. While some of us started with a head of rush by cooling off with an ice-skating.

The Kwa-Thema ward  along with Benoni and Daveyton joined together to cool off with a breeze, meet and greet and welcome others to the Young Single Adult family. We spent three full hours of fun at the ice skating ring in the East rand in Kempton, catching up and dancing. While others skate as if their lives depend on it, others could not even skate to save their lives. A few bruises, splits and and singing is all the fun we needed to welcome the new year. To those who missed out ...there is no next time, but you are welcomed to join us on our next activity.*WINK*

Fun People getting ready to skate for their lives.

 



"Live everyday as if it were your last"

Recap

                                      Let’s recap

While some of you were couch potatoes and stinking bored, here’s a quick update of what you could’ve, would’ve or should’ve done to end your year with a bang.

The Kwa-Thema FUN YSA

We sometimes need to escape reality and get a summer cool breeze which allows us to connect with our inner person. As we headed to the tranquil mountains of Makgalisburg in KONKA, where there’s little network but peace and tranquility is the best. The minute your feet touch the ground not only can you feel, but see that our land is filled with fertility and the waters, naturally blessed with great loyalty. It brings comfort as this is the place to be. For a minute I felt like I was in a foreign country, surely others would agree with me. I kept on wondering what is behind those mountains ...and guess what; it was more bliss, peace and an obstacle course. This is why we ended up looking like that.

 

 

Two piggies after the obstacle course...

Kwa-Thema Hi 5 team spirit to win the race.

 

The Mountains of Makgaliburg where the sunrise and the dawn breaking. I heard a carol of song as the sky grew blue coming from a throat of the birds that are awaking. As I watched outside my window the trees branches swaying, tossing, twisting, bending the gentle breeze it reminds me of the peace bounding in the heart God’s love filled within us.

The activities were extra ordinary. My sister and I took part in every activity; I even have the scars to prove it. We went from Super models to pig models, smelly and dirty. I felt pity for the ladies with new weaves and nails done. The dance was more of a movie star night in MARVEL entertainment, from superman, zombies to witches and the pirates (me)  .The superhero vs the villains, what more can I say.

The time spent there felt short as you all know “Time fly when you have fun”. Sunday it was time to kiss and say goodbye. This Young Single Adults camp has brought many closer, shared and created new memories. This year prepare yourselves to creating new memories, laughter and fun as your JOURNEY unfolds. COMPLIMENTS TO THE NEW YEAR.

 

 

"THE LADIES OF THE MOMENT"

Left: Miss Licious Mlangeni, striking a pose.

Righ: Vanilla, cool as a breeze.

Bottom: Miss Helly Makhanya along with Vanilla, laughing creating new memories.

 

 

 

“A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

 

 

 

Make everyday a World Rose Heritage Day

(Rose poems) Make everyday a World Rose Heritage Day



Proud Zulu Woman!  http://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/2013/02/zulu-people-africas-warrior-people-from.html

Make every day a world
Rose Heritage Day!
Too many War commemoration Days
Dot the hearts of too many people
Who should be making love instead
Of shooting each other

In the streets and the jungles!
Clear our skies of those warplanes!
We don't need your warships in our seas!
We don't want your tanks pointed at us
In the world that God gave to us as His
Eternal gift! Are you listening MR. President?
Make every day a Rose Kissing Day
Make every day a Rose Beauty Appreciation Day!
Relax mister president we come with messages of love!
Remove your tanks from our streets!

Let the imaginary enemy sink your warship in the sea
It's alright with us we have the rose to protect us
From gunships of the enemy
Wake up you politicians you have lied too often to us
You're beginning to believe your own propaganda!
Wake up lovers make the world free place
For the rose to roam free and fill the hearts
Of the lovers with pollution free passion!

We demand it! It is our birth right! We're tired of war!
Let the lovers meet anywhere where they like under
The laughing approval of the happy rose!

BanishedFairy (a.k.a ngaka motaung)

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rose-poems-make-everyday-a-world-rose-heritage-day/

Empower your mind

 

                       Empower your mind

So often we lack self-motivation and allow our family background to determine our future. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints also known as the Mormon Church, has taken a step in empowering young minds to build their stable future.

your back round doesn't determine your future, by powerful motivational speakers 

“My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow beyond personal responsibility. The more people that learn to be fully accountable for their lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and the more fulfilling all of our lives will be.”

Ross Parmenter Anthropologist

 

A survey was compiled in Kwa-Thema a local community in the East of Gauteng, whereby a big number indicated a lack of reading, lack of education and information which results to an increase of unemployment teenage pregnancy and teenage drug and alcohol abuse.

 

 Sister Maggie Mlangeni and Sister Helen Makhanya from the Mormon Church organised the career workshop, with the aim of assisting high school students to receive a clear guideline in furthering their studies and gaining necessary skills. I must say this is a good initiative that needed that will bring change in the local community, as we know knowledge is Power.

Companies such as ABSA, Nedbank and the institute of the University of Johannesburg, took part in this initiative. Students were addressed on student loans, bursaries, internship and           some information which was passed on included saving and spending money and investing it. For a first attempt the career workshop went well, with a welcoming number of students which came through.

Students were pleased with the career workshop and all the information they received, that is the feedback we received. Thanks to our guest speakers which were young, entertaining, vibrant and motivating. I must say, your background doesn’t determine your future and the two ladies did an outstanding job.

It was decided that the workshop will be hosted annually. We hope more companies will take part in joining us for the career workshop. To empower ourselves as the second and third generations we need to instil the culture of reading and empowering ourselves.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), July 12, 1880

“My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow beyond personal responsibility. The more people that learn to be fully accountable for their lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and the more fulfilling all of our lives will be.”

Ross Parmenter Anthropologist

Why Women are so special

                What Makes Women so Special Anyway?

 

Women Unite

This month we celebrate National Women’s Day in South Africa. Men’s noses are often out of joint, around this time of the year, “What makes women so special that they get their own public holiday” some say, or “If there is a women’s day, then why can’t we have a men’s day too”, our usual response to these questions would be “But its men’s day every day of the year, you don’t need a special day” or “When was the last time you gave me flowers!”

 

So it got me thinking, how many of us actually know why we celebrate this day, as it’s not just, women being recognised for their strength, beauty, intelligence and  sensitivity (although, that would be enough), there has to be another more important reason. After a bit of research, I discovered, that there is-

9th August commemorates the national march of women, when in 1956 they petitioned against the legislation that required African persons to carry the “pass“, special identification documents which curtailed an African’s freedom of movement during the apartheid era.

On this day, women stood silently in protest outside the Union Buildings for 30 minutes, many with their children on their backs. The women sang a protest song that was composed in honour of the occasion: Wathint’Abafazi Wathint’imbokodo! or: Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock! In the 54 years since, the phrase or its latest incarnation: “you strike a woman, you strike a rock” has come to represent women’s courage and strength in South Africa.

So, now you know. Next time when a man asks you why women are so special,  you can ‘tune‘ him, that women played a small but vital role in the process of eradicating the apartheid regime in South Africa… oh and where are my flowers?.

http://www.phuthu.co.za/2009/08/07/what-makes-women-so-special-anyway/

We Blessed

 We Blessed

We mourn and groan about what we don’t have, yet we forget to count our blessings. Brothers and sisters we are blessed daily. Waking up in the morning is a blessing, being able to see and to write is a blessing. How often are we grateful for these daily blessings which at times we take for advantage? 

  Do you sit and think to yourself for the blessing which our heavenly father had granted you for the day? For one I know  that I am grateful for all the blessing which heavenly father has blessed. Mostly I am grateful that

can share my thoughts, testimony, and creating memories with the Young Single Adult of the Kwa-Thema ward . For every commandment we obey we are blessed for it. One of the greatest blessing we can offer to the world is being Christ like. There is always more to do and more to accomplish in this life time.

“Don’t take away your future happiness by taking shortcuts instead of applying sound gospel principals. Remember : little things lead to big things.  Insignificant in discretions or neglect can lead to big problems. More importantly, simple, consistent good habits lead into a life full of bountiful blessings.” Elder Richard G. Scott.

 

Believe, feel , love, be, create, inspire

Strength to Forgive

                                               Gain strength to Forgive

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being. Says Elder James E. Faust of the Second Counselor in the first Presidency. 

 

Day by day we share a good laugh, put a smile on someone else’s face, and ask for strength to conquer our daily challenges. How often do we say “I forgive you” and “I love you”, to those who hurt us? As Brothers and Sisters we all have stories to tell on who hurt us, when and how. Sadly we continue to laugh though we don’t forget but we treat them with kindness to heal our wounds and to love them more.
 

Dr. Sidney Simon, a recognized authority on values realization, has provided an excellent definition of forgiveness as it applies to human relationships: Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harbouring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves.”

All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord. But because it happens, it must be endured. President Howard W. Hunter said that “God knows what we do not know and sees what we do not see.”

                                                                                                                          



Don't get stuck in the past, set your self free from your burdens of pain.

A father and his son lived together, the teenage was known as a person who bottle things up to himself and get angry with himself, with his father, and start questioning Heavenly Father for the pain and all the emotional suffering he was going through. One day his father said to him, “son every time you get angry, take a nail and a hammer and nail down that nail on the wooden wall in our yard.” The son did so for half a year. As the wall was stuck up with nails and its beauty could no longer be recognised, the father asked his son to take out the nails one by one. Taking the nails out was harder than putting them in. By the time he was done he was tired and the wooden wall was left with holes and it looked ugly. Moral of the story is, it is easier to be angry at another person and when we are angry we damage ourselves mentally, emotionally mostly spiritually. Anger only brings bitterness and loneliness.

I pray that we may speak the same language, and not just English, but a language of caring, a language of community, and a language of service. And, yes, a language of forgiveness.

 

https://www.lds.org/youth?lang=eng

Kwa-Thema YSA: One Cu...

Kwa-Thema YSA:                                             One Cu...:                                             One Culture   Beautiful XiTsonga group. Nakhensa. In South Africa we have diverse cu...

One Culture

                                            One Culture

 

Beautiful XiTsonga group. Nakhensa.

In South Africa we have diverse cultures that include our heritage, music, dance and food.  Most importantly we as LDS we have one culture, a culture to love, be charitable and lead others with kindness.

The PTA stake organised a Cultural  YSA activity, whereby we were joined by Centurion and Johannesburg stake. The main aim of the activity was to introduce every individual to different cultural groups.We were joined into groups and began our tour to different cultural groups. The first group was the Xitsonga group whereby we ate amasonja (worms) and they tasted nice, and we danced till our waists lines were loose. We visited the Indian group where we  met one of the Gupta’s the never returned home ‘’LOL’’. We tasted the spicy rice and samosa. Hmmm that was delicious. Then the Indian dancers gave us an exciting performance. The atmosphere felt like we were in India. Our next stop was in Botswana, where we met the king and the we ate pap and meat. That was some real food to a man’s stomach. We dropped by in Swaziland and met all the King’s wives and they performed a traditional dance for us. Chillie was our next stop where we learned that it is a small country with delicious food .We also sang “I am a child of God” in Spanish. Our last stop was Hawaii , it looked like a small Garden of Eden, the place had leaves and fruits as part of the decorations. It looked peaceful! The activity was a success and it was exciting!

Lets go Bollywood

Look to God and Live

                                Look to God and Live

The Young servants 

As young single adult we face different trials and tribulations within the gospel and in the world, yet we stand firm and not allow our faith to be shaken. As we attended the    East Region YSA Fireside in Centurion Stake Centre last Sunday (28 April 2013). We received delightful messages brought by Elder Carl B.Cook (of he seventy)accompanied by her companion Sister Cook. By looking at them we received more inspiration on the importance of temple marriage, missionary work and principles of the Gospel.

As we look up to our Heavenly Father we will gain strength, courage and wisdom to live by His word and endure to the end. Our Heavenly Father loves us and we must never forget that He loves us. This is a tip to the ladies By Sister Cook,if a brethren wants  you to get married to him he should say “ Do you want to progress with me towards exaltation?” Ladies get your manicure ready for that ring. Thank you to all YSA’s who came and participated. Till we meet again.

Dating Activity

                Thema YSA in Bedfordview 

Journey to the Promised Land

 

 

 

The Kwa-Thema  Young Single Adult on our way to Berdfordview dating activity, on the 13 April 2013. What a long journey it was for us to get from Thema to Joburg, as things got worse when we go stuck on the N12 for half an hour. At least we got there in time, with our make-up on. As soon as we got to the Church the Priesthood were given numbers for different females to ask out on a DATE! The aim of the activity was to mix and mingle and to go on a date with our pears within the Church.

Yes, now we know that we can still have fun on date without spending a penny. The aim of the activity was to bring together the East-rand YSA  and go out on date. There were more than five activities and lots of snacks to enjoy. The ladies raised concerns about the Brethren not approaching them because their looks might be too intimidating. The Brethren response was the some ladies are DIVAS!  

 
The following dating activities were included:

• Kareoki
• Couples Questionaires
• Ping pong/ Table Tannis
• 30 Seconds
• Dancing Class

 Thank you all Eastrand YSA's for your Participation. Dating leads to Temple Marriage.