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1928
After the confirmation in August we travelled to Elim for
a visit. This journey was nice and very pleasant, we were welcomed everywhere with much love.
So we stayed in Brits and served the congregation in Bethanie. Then the congregation openly expressed the desire to again join a missionary association during my lifetime and then also without me and it was decided to return to Hermannsburg. We approached Superintendent Jensen who in turn approached
the Mission Director Schomerus who was in Africa at the time and he then came in August 1828 [1928?] and admitted the congregation and the congregation got Missionary K. Buhr from Phalane and got him as a pastor. He first stayed in my old house, later got the house of Cousin August and his parents moved into the house of my sister Christine. We lived in love and friendship with Mr and Mrs Buhr until 1943 and the congregation had an active man in Buhr. I still held sermons often in Bethanie and we took Holy Communion there. The brass band and choir often came to Brits for our birthdays and contact with Bethanie remained good until 1939.