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But the water often became so bad to drink that especially
the children became ill and died of dysentery and I asked the government for a borehole. Good water was found near the mill and since then dysentery stopped.
Lissy got engaged to the young Mr Franz Roos and married him in 1919. I did the wedding. Initially I was against this marriage. But Lissy has a good husband and we like him.
A subsidiary of Saron, Monamara distanced itself from the congregation of E. Penzhorn and asked to be admitted by us. We rejected this.
Then the residents of a subsidiary of Mosetla could not
reach agreement with Missionary Haske from Mosetla on church construction and asked to be admitted by us. I sent
the disputing parties to Superintendent Behrens and wrote to Missionary Haske. We also rejected this request for admission. Then in 1926 there came a deputation from Rama, subsidiary of Poloria and told us their entire tale of woe with the young Missionary Mahnke who had now excommunicated about
50 fathers of families. After we had tried everything to bring about reconciliation and after everything had failed, we decided to serve them in Rama from January 1921.