24 Feb 2012

224 Feb 2012
President Von Stetten called this morning and I told him Elder Blackburn was on the phone and he said, "what makes you thing I am not calling you", I said,"no one every calls for me".  He then expressed the reason for his call.  He wanted us to take him to see some of Swaziland that he has never seen;  We set a time for him to pick us up - after a quick trip to see Elder Brown who had also called us just before to tell me that "my teeth are rubbing my tongue and my tongue hurts".  Anyway, Elder Brown is just fine, no broken teeth,  just a sore spot on his tongue.  We told him to rinse with warm salt water a couple times per day to promote healing.  President and Sister Von Stetten picked us up and we drove to the Ngwenya Glass Factory where glass bottles and jars are recycled into beautiful art objects, vases and stemwear- www.ngwenyaglass.co.sz; we spent most of the morning and had lunch there; then drove towards Piggs Peak until we had to turn around so he could get back for a little rest then pick up Elder Usi, Area Seventy from Kenya,  at the Matsapha Airport.  We have District Conference this weekend.  Next week we have to start getting all the Bakkis through the border and back so they will be in the country legally.  We found out that the Church Welfare fund bought a coffin for the Sister in GeGe who died and the Elders of the GeGe Community were so impressed that a church would do such a good thing.  The people there are so poor that they are just wrapped in a blanket and buried somewhere on the homestead.  We have gained such a good reputation in that small community, they are not used to Churches not passing the collection box and being willing to help their members.