Ge Ge, High School students washing their lunch dishes

5 February 2011
The first ever District Relief Society Training Meeting for the District Branches.  There was a very good turn out.  Sister Blackburn gave a spiritual thought and the coordination of teaching subjects were very good.  I was very impressed with how the District Relief Society had put it together.  They did a great job.  I had a chance to talk with a couple of teachers from the rural areas and ask what their young high school girls did when they had their menstrual cycle each month.  They told me that the girls used whatever they could find, paper, leaves and sometimes when they could not find anything they either stayed at home or came to school and bled on their clothes.  I sent this report to Sister Neilsen and she will see what she can do to bring humanitarian to Swaziland to help these young women.

4 February 2011
Met the Neilsens at 7:30 to travel to the "Grand Canyon of South Africa"a place just north of Nelspruit;  we got through the border with no problems and came to what seemed our turn; we were both agreed to it.  Neilsens' were in one car and we were in ours.  So we drove and drove (the gps kept telling us to go back) we chose to read the map.  We drove some more and were on dirt roads, and ended up in a community of houses, there was a woman who came from her house to talk with us and she showed us on our map where we were and we were backtracking to Swaziland on dirt roads.  Took us an hour to get back to the main road and we decided to give up on the visit to the Canyon.  Elder and Sister Neilsen went back to Johannesburg and we decided to take a drive to Kruger and see some animals.  We did not see very many, it was the middle of the day and hot.  We got back to Swaziland at 7:30 pm.  12 hours in the car.  We were really tired.

3 February 2011
Met the Neilsens at 8:15 am and took them to the Ezulwini Town Board where they met with the CEO to discuss humanitarian needs the town of Ezulwini, good progress was made and an appointment will be made with the Chief the next time the Neilsens come to Swaziland; then we went to Manzini to meet with the place that is going to receive the wheel chairs and plans were put into place for ordering and receiving them.
We had a good discussion on what Humanitarian projects are available now and one of them is sewing classes to teach young women how to make sanitary pads, they use leafs in Uganda and the sewing project has been very successful.  Sister Blackburn will investigate what the rural girls use here in Swaziland.
2 February 2011
Elder and Sister Nielsen arrived today, we met them at the border post in Mbabane.  We tried to find the Save the Children Orphanage and could not, so we had lunch at Friar Tuck Restaurant in Mbane, Branch President Shongwe was too busy to come out and talk with us.  We then led them to Ezulwini to the Royal Casino and Spa where they had reservations.  Our lunch was late so we invited them for a dish of ice cream and hot fudge sauce, which they loved.