05 October 2009 – Monday

We started the day by watching the Sunday afternoon session of conference. After elder Holland’s talk on the Book of Mormon everything else was rather anti-climatic. I am need to go back and listen to the other talks again to mine the words of wisdom that I am sure are there.

Our plans for our p-day was quickly changed when we got a call from President Mann asking us if we could come into Durban on Tuesday. We said sure, called the B’s to arrange to go with them, made a reservation for a B&B, and then spent part of the day doing things we were going to do on Tuesday today.

One thing we did not change was Mary going to the pharmacy for her monthly supply of medicine. The lines are often out the door – as I believe I have mentioned before it must be a very profitable business – but today she only had to wait about 30 minutes. We then went to Port Durnford so Mary could write a letter for sister Chirwa. She was turned down for her medical pension because they said she was healthy enough to work. She isn’t so she is appealing the decision. We then went to president Machaka’s tuck shop so she could print the letter and have the president take to sister Chirwa when he goes home. We had made arrangements to take sister Tembe to physical therapy on Wednesday and since we did not have a phone number for her we stopped by to make other arrangements.

After getting everything cleared up, I dropped Mary at our boarding and went to get the car washed. Because of the rain that seemed to come on any day when I had time to get the car washed, it had been getting dirtier for over 2 weeks. Today’s trip to the Chirwa homestead added a new coat of mud to the already dirty car so I decided I would get it washed so it would be nice and clean when we got home from Durban.

We spent the rest of our p-day just being wonderfully lazy. I did spend part of the time organizing and captioning pictures, but I think that was the most useful thing I did in the evening.