On Christmas Eve in 1792, Christian Kühnel, Daniel Schwinn and Henrik Marsveld, three Moravian missionaries, arrived at Baviaanskloof and were shown the ruins of Schmidt's house and the hamlet in which no one lived anymore. The missionaries found Mother/Moeder (Magda) Lena, one of Schmidt's first converts on a farm near Sergeants River.
In 1792, three Moravian missionaries, Christian Kühnel, Daniel Schwinn, and Henrik Marsveld, arrived at Baviaanskloof to find the ruins of Schmidt's house and an abandoned hamlet. They discovered Mother/Moeder (Magda) Lena, one of Schmidt's earliest converts, living on a farm near Sergeants River.