05 June 2011
Delivered blankets to young children living in abject poverty, mother and infant has been in hospital about 3 months for TB; father has been in bed about 6 month for TB; neither one is expected to survive, the 4 other children take care of themselves; when we arrived the 7 year old was washing his clothes in a washpan by hand.  Cooked most of the day for Zone Conference on Wednesday, we leave on Tuesday morning and will provide cookies; Apple pie and dinner rolls for Presidency Dinner

04 June 2011
Elder and Sister Harm picked us up at the home of Elder and Sister Callahan, we went shopping in the China Market for glass beads, that had to be the best bead store ever opened and the cheapest.  Sister Blackburn spend less than $30 and had about 10 large and med bags of the small glass beads.  A woman in the Manzini Market is going to show her how to do the Zulu beading.  We then went back to the Temple to pick up our Bakki and saw the Missionaries from Swaziland.  Elder Dlamini and Elder Mamba, they were so happy to see us, especially Elder Mamba.  He writes us every month to let us know how he is doing.  We also saw some of the Ezulwini Saints and were able to visit for a little while before driving back to Swaziland.  We got back to Swaziland about 5:00pm; that is a long drive over there.  Saw the duplicate of Las Vegas sign in the China Mart area as we were leaving.


03 June 2011
We arrived early to the Area Office of the Church in Johannesburg, one of the first people we say was Sister and Elder Nielsen and they asked if we could bring hygiene kits back to Swaziland and we said yes if we could have blankets too.  It was agreed to give us blankets too.   Elder and Sister Harms were there and went to the warehouse with us and helped load the bakki, it was so full we could barely get our luggage in when we started home.  We did not have any trouble with the border check point; we declared the blankets and boxes as donations and they let us right into Swaziland with no problems.  You just never know if there is going to be a problem with the border.  We got back to the Temple about 5:00 and the Callahans will pick us up at about 8:15pm.  The Ezulwini Branch was too late for the 6:00pm Session so we went ahead.  When we got out there was a message for us that they had finally arrived and would go to the Temple on Friday morning.

02 June 2011
Today we drive to Johannesburg to go to the Temple with the Ezulwini Branch; it will be our first trip to the Temple in over a year.  We took time to leave a bicycle in Mbabane for repair and got to Johannesburg Area Office about 3:00.  We found Elder Howell and he took charge of us until Elder and Sister Callahan finished their assignment at the Missionary Training Center.  When we all connected up we went to dinner at a small cafe across the street from the apartment complex where most of the Area Office Missioaries live.  They all have really nice apartments, large and well furnished.