Friday, February 11, 2011

11 Feb 2011
This morning we picked up Charles Dlamini at the Swazi Post Office and took him with us to get the little Mbisi boy to take him to the Lobombo Clinic.  When we got to the Clinic we had to wait a little while for it to open and we were scheduled to be the first to see the Dentist.  After everyone was allowed into the Clinic the manager came up to Elder Blackburn and informed us that they always had "services" before they started their day and would Elder Blackburn  pray for them.  Elder Blackburn, of course agreed, then the manager asked someone to start singing a hymn and everyone sang a hym in SisWati, then Elder Blackburn gave a prayer in English, then a young man gave what appeared to be a short sermon.  We could not understand it because he spoke SisWati.  The Doctor had not come at 8:45 so we had to leave, we gave Charles enough money to pay for the Doctor (3 Rand) and enough to purchase medicine and get him and Mbisi home by Kombi.  We went to the Border Post to wait for Elder Watson and the 4 couples from the Johannesburg Temple came in so we took the time to help them get through customs and then led them to a Tourist area they really wanted to see.  We then went back to the Border Post and waited 1.5 hours for Elder Watson, we finally called President Von Stetten to get Watson's Cell number, we called Elder Watson and they were just arriving to leave the South African Border and enter Swaziland, so we helped them through Customs and they wanted to go to the Ngwenya Glass Factory where we had left the Temple Missionaries; when we got there the Temple Missionaries were still there.  So we just sat down and waited until everyone was ready to leave.  Explained the map to the Temple Missionaries and made arrangements to have dinner at the Chinese Restaurant at 6:00pm.  When Elder and Sister Watson was ready to leave they wanted to drive to a place called Pigg's Peak so we drove to the turnoff, parked our care and got into the Watson's car and went for a drive through the mountains, they were so happy and were able to get some great pictures; on the way back Elder Blackburn drove the car while Elder Watson took pictures;  when we got to our car and started back to Ezulwini, President Von Stetten telephoned us and wanted to know where the Watson's were and we explained that we would meet him in about 15 minutes; Elder Watson can explain to him where he was and why.  We got back to Ezulwini just in time to meet for a Chinese Dinner.  We had a busy productive day and are very tired and have to start at 7:00am tomorrow.  It is hard to take care of two groups of people who want your attention.  So goodnight everyone, we are off to bed.

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