12 June 2010 – Saturday

Up and out of the house early so I could pick up the Nyawos and YaYa Mathe to take them to have their patriarchal blessings. While they were with patriarch Jabba, I basically sat in the parking lot of the mall in Ballito and worked on my talk for tomorrow and read the newspaper. I was surprised how quickly the three hours passed. I did take a walk around the whole mall – it is a strip mall so I was outside in the nice warm sun most of the time – and saw some the stores we did not have time to visit before. In most malls in South Africa you see 90% black faces and 10% others as customers. In Ballito it is about reverse of that.

By the time we got back about all I could do was catch some lunch and then go to see Mary. I had called her during the morning and knew that she felt fine but it was good to see her as well. I took her some chicken McNuggets, Crystal-lite, Bugles and of course the newspapers so she could have her precious puzzles. She was happy to have it all.

After the visit I came home and took a nap. I got a call from president Baldwin about some things that needed to be done. He is still very sick – in fact he sounded worse today than he did on Friday. He said that Arthur Wilson was back in the hospital with complications from his hernia operation.

I visit Mary and we went to visit Arthur. When we arrived at his room he was getting a blessing from Calwyn and president VanThiel. He really was not well and we found that they were going to move him to high care so that they could monitor him better.

My evening was spent mainly working on my talk which is just not coming together at all. I have lots of ideas and thoughts but I can not figure out how to make them flow. I also want the talk to help the branch and especially any investigators. It is strange to not have things working this late in the day.