12 October 2009 – Monday

It was an unusual P-day for us because we had guests arriving in the afternoon. So of course we spent part of the day cleaning up the house so that they would not find out how messy we usually are. Of course if they read this they will know.

The first thing I had to do was drop off our flat tire to be fixed. Later we went out to lunch – McDonalds – picked up the tire and did some grocery shopping so we had things for breakfast. Back at our boarding Mary put together a batch of her delicious brownies and they were still in the oven when a caravan of bakkies showed up and 12 elders and the Wilsons got out. We knew a few of the elders but the majority were new to us and of course I will never remember most of their names until we meet a couple of more times. After shifting them around – some had come in the Wilson’s bakkie – the elders went off to meet the Richards Bay elders at the internet shop.

We had a very nice afternoon and evening with the Wilsons. We got to catch up with everything that is happening in the area where we were born. Swaziland is going like gang-busters and Ezulwini is growing again.

Elder Wilson, Sister Wilson and Mary, Mary and light house on the Richards Bay pier. It was very overcast and late in the day but it was still beautiful. It took me back to when my family lived right on the beach front and the sounds of the waves lulled us to sleep.

 

Looking down the Richards Bay beach towards the point with a warning light on the top. William – on the left – who brings carvings from Zimbabwe and loves the couples because they buy so many things from him.  His son the salesman stands next to him.

We took the Wilson’s for a quick tour – a very quick tour – of the Bay and ended up coming across William and his carvings. Both couples of course bought a few things as well as having a good talk with William and his brother. We showed them the small boat harbor and then the beach. We walked out on the mole and took some pictures. Unfortunately it was quite overcast but some of the pictures turned out pretty good. After that we went out to dinner where we had more time to talk as we enjoyed a nice meal.

We were not home long before we took pity on the Wilsons – they had driven for 5 hours today – and had family prayer before they went off to bed. We followed not long afterwards.

I should mention that I got a call from Iras at Kosi Bay saying that they had used the last of the sacrament cups and would I send more. I said I would get some off and then thought how nice it would have been if he had called when they got down to a couple of weeks worth. But maybe no one mentioned it to him until yesterday when they ran out.

It was a nice P-day for us.