09 January 2010 – Saturday

Drove to Enseleni and picked up President Vilane and Nonhlahla for a seminary meeting at Richards Bay. Luckily we went early because they changed the time without tell us. We arrived just as they were handing out the supplies and all we had to do was load them up and say goodbye.

We then all went to Engwelezane and President Moloi’s son’s funeral. It was an interesting mix of Zulu and LDS –including a talk in Zulu about the plan of salvation. I knew it was the plan of salvation because the speaker quoted from Moses in English. After the funeral I spoke to President Moloi and he said that when another son died in early 2007, Elder Bartholomew took care of everything including conducting the funeral. Since we did not hear about the death until Friday there was little we could do to help. But President Mngadi did a good job of conducting the services.

After the funeral we took President Vilane home and then took Nonhlahla to the mall. We grabbed a quick lunch at McDonalds and then went to Esikhawini for piano practice. Only two of her students showed up – I do not think she has had all four show up on the same day.

After piano lessons we started home. Along the way we were stuck in traffic for quite a while. There had been a head-on accident. When we went pass they were just starting to tow away the car and truck that had hit. The truck was badly damaged but it was the car that really was crunched and we wondered if the driver had been killed.

***Note – On Sunday morning President Nyawo told us that his counselor, Wenzile Thusi, had been in a serious accident the day before. We then realized that was the accident they had been cleaning up when we were going home. Mary said she had thought the car looked like his but since we see many like it, she did not say anything at the time.

We found out that he had some head and neck injuries and was in ICU at the Richards Bay hospital. The RB elders had gone and given him a blessing. On Monday he was moved to a regular room and when I called today – Tuesday morning – to see if he could have visitors I found that he was already home. I talked to him for a minute and he sounded fine. He hurts a little but there seems to be no major or permanent damage. He is truly blessed to have survived that terrible accident with so few injuries.