16 August 2009 – Sunday
Our normal busy Sunday from about 7:00 am until 2:30 when we get back to our boarding. We picked up brother Nwayo and his son on the way to Esikhawini. President Malinga came to PEC and we had a majority of those who should be in attendance there for a change. Hopefully some day we will get a full group.
The only thing that was different for the day was that elder Musemare taught the adult SS class and I taught the adult Priesthood class. Brothers Percy and Malando had the Aaronic PH conferred on them and were ordained Priests. President Nyawo did the ordinances with the help of Elder Vance holding his white handbook turned to the right page.
After the meeting I was able to get a couple of problems solved and then spent some time training President Nyawo to be a counselor. We had a good talk and I tried to show him why it was important that they hold a weekly Presidency meeting before having PEC. While I was doing that, Mary had a couple of piano students.
On our way to dropping president Nyawo off, I stopped at brother Nkosi to see why he has been missing church. We had a short but good visit – president Nyawo is his home teacher – and I told him I would pick him up at about 7:30 next Sunday for PEC meeting. Hopefully he will be ready and we will be really close to having a complete PEC. After taking president Nyawo off we finally wended our way back to our boarding.
We made taco salad using the meat Mary cooked last night for dinner. I cut up the tomatoes, lettuce and grated the cheese. The salads turned out to be very good and we broke up the left over crisp shells and used them like tortilla chips in the salad.
I guess I should explain that while we can not buy corn tortillas nor plain corn tortilla chips, we can buy a taco kit that has 12 pre-formed, pre-fried corn tortilla shells along with an almost decent seasoning mix and a not very decent salsa.
After lunch I crashed and woke up a couple of hours later. We then started packing for our trip to couples conference tomorrow before we left to go to the B’s boarding for Sunday dinner with the missionaries. We celebrated Elder Richey’s 21st birthday and had a good time as usual. It is a nice way to end each Sabbath day.