Heat Notes  â€“

 Each day gets hotter. I do not see how the bike riding elders live in this. On Sunday night Elder Wengert mentioned that although it is hot outside, when they go into a house it is like walking into a furnace. He said that they felt like they needed to be wrung out after each visit. I am thankful that we now have air-conditioning at our boarding.

The Richards Bay boarding has air-con in just one bedroom and that was long ago claimed by the Enseleni elders because the boarding was originally their boarding and the RB elders moved in about 8 months ago. Elder Lemmon said he offered them R200 a month if they would switch but he go no where.

They said that when summer really hits, the breezes stop. So far that is not so but the breezes bring no relief. They are nothing but hot, moist air that actually makes you hotter than you would be without them.

If we park the car in the sun even for 10 minutes, when we come out it is like a furnace. At the branches, parking spots in the shade are like gold. Everyone wants one. Unfortunately at both Esikhawini and Engwelezane there is almost no shade. You can just see the waves of heat coming off the metal. And of course at Port Durnford there is not even a fan.

I look at the 2 feet of snow they got in Washington DC and think how nice it would be to have some of that here.

On Sunday night I was sitting around with the elders talking about how hot it has been. Elder Wengert – who will go home this week to a cool Arizona climate – was telling about his companion Elder Nkosi going from the heat of the day into a house where it was even hotter. He asked the investigator if they could turn off the heater and he was laughingly told that they did not have a heater.