Quiet week, can't remeber what we did. Rain started Friday night, Saturday we were in Mbabane and they had luckily gotten the roof on so the building did not get wet inside. We have not checked on it this week. We purchased extra mattresses for the Elders when they have sleep overs, we also purchased a new stove for Mbabane, a new washer for Nhlangano, paid their waterbills up to date. Saturday night we had a terrible storm, electricity was out Saturday night, all day Sunday and off and on Monday. Good thing we like sandwiches. I guess the rainy season has finally arrived and we are enjoying it. Half of July, all of August and all of September there was not a drop of rain and everything was so dusty and dry.
11 Oct 2010
All the Elders decided to hike Sibebe mountain and we decided we would not go, too hot. We paid their bills. They do not have much left to see them through the month, so we will make them budget their wants. We decided we had to get an answer for the Mission Home on getting the vehicles registered here in Swaziland, so we called the police department to find out how; they did not call us back so we went to the Ministry of Transportation, they sent us to the Police Headquarters and a very nice policeman discussed the situation and advised us that the Church should purchase a bond that would allow the vehicles to remain in Swaziland and then when the Church takes them back to South Africa there would be a partial refund, so he sent us to the Ministry of Customs where we met with another very nice person who sold us 5 importation forms for the vehicles. The people we met truly tried to help us and were very friendly to us. So we will take the forms to Elder Davis when we go to Durban Friday.
12 Oct 2010
President Von Stetten called the Zone Leader and instructed them to take Elder Mutuku to the PetroPort where they will meet with the Assistants and they will collect Elder Mutuku and take him to the Mission Home. This surprised everyone. The contractor has started the renovation on the building for the Ezulwini Branch, we hope it will be finished within a month. We had rain all night. Not a storm though; we are thankful to have had electricity.
13 Oct 2010
District Development Meeting this morning, we have noticed a great improvement in the quality of these meetings when they are held in our home, the Elders are also really striving to implement their training in "Teaching with the Spirit". Elder Blackburn spoke with President Von Stetten and Elder Mutuku is on his way home. That made us very sad. When they get caught up in flirtations it always leads to disaster. We decided not to inform the District at this time, they will hear soon enough. Elder Manqoba Shongwe came home from his mission tonight, we went to the airport with his family and then to the Manzini Chapel where the electricity was out; we still went inside, used the flashlights on the cell phones and Elder Blackburn had the opportunity to extend an honorable release to him; he shed a few tears and really did not want to take his missionary badge off. After all it represents the quality of men we have in the Church and known world wide as a "badge of honor in teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ". Looks like rain all night, we really do love the rain.
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