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Meet the Sisters Who Have Just Been Called as Area Organisation Advisers
This new position in the Church allows sisters to counsel with priesthood leaders and train sister-led organisations in stakes, districts, wards and branches.
Three women in the Africa South Area were recently called as international area organisation advisers.
It is a new position that has been added to the organisational structure of the Church. It calls upon these women to participate in leadership councils and mentor, train and support sister-led organisations throughout the areas.
Read on to learn more about the three sisters that have been called to fill this brand new role in the Area.
Sister Amalia Malidadi lives in Beira, Sofala, Mozambique.
Before this call, Sister Malidadi was serving as the stake Young Women president in the Beira Mozambique Stake. She has served in several church callings, including branch Relief Society president and FSY couple director in 2017.
Sister Malidadi has a PhD, an MBA, and a masters in human resources. She works as a business management university lecturer at the Catholic University of Mozambique, where she teaches marketing management and financial management.
As she juggles her various responsibilities, Sister Malidadi says her family inspires her. “I want to be a good example to them and everyone around me,” she says. She has been married to Solomon Malidadi since 1999, and they have three children.
She is looking forward to “learning a lot and growing spiritually, intellectually and especially emotionally,” in her new calling.
Sister Malidadi says her personal purpose is “to empower women and show them that we are capable. With a little push, we can overcome anything.”
Sister Theresa Tshidi Chokoe was serving as the stake Relief Society president of the Roodepoort South Africa Stake prior to this call.
She has served in several church callings including stake employment specialist, ward Relief Society counselor, Primary counselor and FSY leader in 2018.
Sister Chokoe works for the Gauteng Department of Education in South Africa, where she currently holds the title of deputy chief education specialist in psychosocial support.
She is married to Mpho Chokoe. They are the parents of three children and have three grandchildren. She resides in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, South Africa.
As she takes on this new role, Sister Chokoe aims to “participate in the Lord’s work by living the gospel and taking care of the needy.”
Ministering and “serving others with love and empathy” are guiding principles that inspire her in her life. As she takes on her new calling, Sister Chokoe says she is looking forward to “being guided by the Spirit as I serve with humility and embrace diversity.”
Sister Tarirai Mhonda resides in Harare, Zimbabwe. She is the owner of a tourism consulting and leather business. She has worked for various government parastatals including the Zimbabwe Tourism, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe National Park. She also enjoys small farming with her husband, whom she married in 1988. She served as the Harare Zimbabwe South Stake Relief Society president for the past seven years. She has served in a number of Church callings, including stake Relief Society counselor, ward Relief Society president and ward Relief Society counselor.
Sister Mhonda was baptized in Salzburg, Austria. She is the mother of three children.
She sees the role of the area organisation adviser as one that will help to link the Area Presidency with the sister-led organisations in the Church.
As she serves in this new role, Sister Mhonda says she is “looking forward to more participation by sisters in their council meetings as a result of them feeling loved and knowing that their roles are important for the Church.
“All sisters should be motivated by President [Russell M.] Nelson’s message in October conference of 2019: that the roles of women are equally important in the gathering of Zion in preparation for the Second Coming of Our Saviour, Jesus Christ,” she says.
As she goes about her life, Sister Mhonda is inspired by the scriptures, conference talks and articles in the Liahona. She draws strength from leaders who “remind me that even if life is full of adversaries and tribulations, there is always positive outlook for everything,” she says. “Hope and faith will get me through the toughest times.”