23 & 24 August 2009

23 August 2009 – Sunday

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Missions are about people. I thought Elder Mokopotsa  looked sharp today. Thobani Chirwa also looked good. Later he would go with his younger nephew to the free clinic. The smiling face on the end is of our friend Thembe who has a baptism date set for the end of September and who often attends our English classes in Port Durnford.

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Sunday night was our last supper and the elders had a great time eating, talking and sending in reports. But the day was long and they worked hard so elder Mokopotsa and elder Torgerson decided to get some rests.

 

We picked up the Esikhawini missionaries, picked up presidents Nyawo and Nkosi, attended PEC at Esikhawini, attended church in Port Durnford, took two of the Chirwa boys to the free clinic in Esikhawini, Mary taught piano at Esikhawini, came home to take a nap and prepare for the missionaries coming over for dinner, dinner with the missionaries except for elder Mbhiti who was heading for Durban, cleaned up the after dinner, and went to bed. It was a good Sabbath day. It would have been better if sister B was out of the hospital.

24 August 2009 – Monday

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Monday’s gray, wet morning sky. We went to the Richards Bay boarding and found it clean and the elders settling in for a relaxing P-day. Elder Peterson shows off his Gordon B. Hinckley guitar and Elder Hoosier join him for a duet. Elder Torgerson is just going with the flow. Elder Muthoka decided to go into another room – was he being critical of the quality of playing?

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Elder Muthoka on the exercise bike that is missing a pedal – that makes it interesting to ride for 30 minutes. The last pictures of the four together. At this time they had guessed that elder Hoosier and elder Torgerson would be leaving but I don’t think they realized they would both me made zone leaders. We will miss them here in Richards Bay.

 

Another rainy P-day but that was OK because we had things we needed to do around the house that we have kept putting off. But before we could start on them, we went and expected all three of the elder’s boardings. We do that the last Monday before transfers so those who will leave will have cleaned up any mess they helped to make. All of the boardings were fine except a couple of them needed to defrost their fridges. The Esikhawini one looked like they were trying to get enough ice to make a snow man – I am sorry I did not get a picture of it.

After we had finished with the inspections we went to the Barts boarding to deliver some mail. Sister B is still in the hospital and elder B is doing a good job of being a bachelor until she can come home. We then went to the mall so we could have some lunch, pay some bills, and do a little grocery shopping.

As I said at first, the day was then devoted to periods of house cleaning, going through piles of accumulated pages of church related material – we truly are pack rats when it comes to some things- and general house cleaning. When not doing that we were taking care of e-mail – I sent out a letter about our week. We enjoy getting them from other missionaries so I am going to try to send them on a regular basis.



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