18 Oct 2010

  Went with Elders on a mini safari at Hlane Big Game Park it wa a much needed pday  after 3 weeks of problems.  Brought the Elders together in good fellowship.  We took a picnic and had a barbeque then it was time to go to the Internet Cafe at about 2:00 pm; time for letters to family.  

19 Oct 2010

When we were in Durban, Sister Harms gave us 9 Nelson Mandela 90th birthday commemorative coins and wanted Sister Blackburn to take them to the silversmith and have necklaces made.  The coins belonged to Sisters in the Area Office; Sister Harms asked them to give Sister Blackbur one for being so kind as to take them to the silversmith.  Sister Blackburn was really surprised.  Sister Cox also packed the Blackburns a box lunch for the drive back to Swaziland on Sunday and that was a surprise too.  We did not have to stop and buy food.

20 Oct 2010

Transfer week, the District and Zone Leaders went to Durban to pick up Elders being transferred to Swaziland, Elder Gondo was sent to Losotho for his next area.  We got 3 new Elders, Elder Phoshoko, Elder and Elder Ncube,  All really good Elders.

22 Oct 2010

Picked up the necklaces at the Swazi Silversmiths.

23 Oct 2010

Went to dinner with Elder and Sister Cox, CES and Elder and Sister Allen PEF - we went to the Chinese restrauant and the food was not very good.  We came back to the Blackburn's house for Ice Cream Sundaes. Everyone had a very good visit.  Much laughter and discussion about PEF.

24 Oct 2010

Went to Nhlangano for Church, the Saints refused to speak English and Sister Blackburn became really put out at them. The Branch had 45 in attendance only one family.  GeGe had 43 in attendance and no priesthood except the Elders.

25 Oct 2010

President Von Stetten held his Mission Presidency meeting at the Blackburn's house on SKYPE.  He was not enthused about a branch in GeGe after our experience there.  We had chicken enchiladas for dinner after the meeting and everyone felt they were the best ever, after all it is a dish difficult to find the ingredients and put together (of course everyone would enjoy it).

26 Oct 2010

Met with President Mahlalela to get the measurments for a wheel chair for one of his members in the Manzini Branch, we sent the info to Humanitarian in Joburg.  Should not be long before we will have to figure a way to get it into Swaziland without paying an exorbitant fee.

27 Oct 2010

Went to Stecki and met with Elder Mamba's Aunti; we took the pictures we had taken before Elder Mamba left so she could have a picture to see.  Elder Mashiloane and Elder Mbaiwa went with us since she did not speak any English, they spoke Zulu and she could understand that.  She was a little high on snuff so was really animated about the  pictures.  We then sent an email to Elder Vusu Mamba with another picture of us giving her a Book of Mormon and Liahona and pictures of Christ with the black African child.

28 Oct 2010

Met with Sibusiso Mbuli to help him get a plan together for PEF and get a job soon.  He will probably enroll in a EMT course either here in Swazi or South Africa it will give him a job in 3 months, then he can work on future education goals.  We also met with Brother Robert and gave him geneaology forms to fill out; we will check back with him in a week to see if he has a question and needs help.