Wednesday we Visit Parys – Thursday we Get Robbed in Vereeniging!

On Wednesday May 27 we drove up to Parys to visit Louis – the first picture on the left below and sister Bobbi Swanepoel  – the one with Louis on her lap. We always have a nice visit with this amazing sister who has been in the Church for years and remembers everything. She is also very talented and she is making a baby quilt from the blocks in the photo. She also paints and writes poetry. We are just sorry that she does not live a closer to Potch so we and others could visit her more often.

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Thursday was rather exciting for us. We got up rather early and caught a brilliant orange sunrise photo. We drove the Louw family to Vereeniging so the could catch a bus to Durban to attend a funeral. The bus station and the train station are the same. This old – and not very well kept up – steam engine was on display. Since brother Louw worked on the railroad he knew all about it.

Unfortunately we were standing around the back of the car talking and not paying attention. So a young man opened the driver side door, crept in and took our GPS and Mary’s purse which had her iPad, Camera and of course her wallet. I saw him just as he was about out again but he was too fast for me.

Later I told Mary I was prompted to lock the doors but since her door and the boot was open it would not work and I did not follow up on the promptings. She then told me that she felt she should shut her door and the boot but again she did not follow up because some of their luggage was still in the boot. So we have no one to blame but ourselves as the Lord tried to help us but we ignored him. A couple of days later I was listening to some conference talks and the speaker mentioned that when we were prompted we needed to act…

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In the evening we drove over to Klerksdorp where the branch presidencies had a meeting with president Dunn. I did not get any pictures of the president but I did get one of elder Barton with president Kwaikwai. Elder Peterson with elder Wild. Elder Wild just came in to the area on Tuesday night on an emergency transfer. I then took a photo of elders Wild and Barton who will be serving together in the Ikageng area. Elder Wild is a real short timer and like elder Dye will probably die – that is be released – here.

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