siteki

15 Feb 2012

Sister Buhlebzwe, her little son and her 19 year old brother;he lives in SA and is getting ready to serve a mission.  Sister Buhlebzwe joined the Church first, then her husband, then the rest of her family.
This morning we went to Siteki to meet with Phyllicia Buhlebzwe and her husband Mdyiniso; he is a counselor in the Manzini Branch Presidency he also works in Swazi Bank in Siteki, we called them yesterday about starting a Sunday School there and Sister Buhlebzwe said we were an answer to her prayers, she has been praying for a Branch of the Church to be organized in Siteki and we felt that now is the time.  They will hold Sunday School on their veranda and invite the members living in Siteki to join them.  Siteki is a beautiful little city on the north eastern border of Swaziland, in the tops of the Lubombo mountain range.  We looked all over for a KFC for lunch and could not find one, that really surprised us, so we found another place, Futis Chicken and it was quite good.

Then we drove to the homestead Brother and Sister Hall live on; they are peace corp volunteers and live and work in a community over there.  They teach school and work with a refugee camp.  Sister Hall is going to teach the women in the refugee camp and the young women in the high school how to make the washable sanitary napkins; we took her the fabric and all the sewing notions she will need.  These two stops took us all day; we got back to Ezulwini about 5:30pm.  This is their little 2 room home, no running water, no indoor toilet; they have to use a mosquito net they are so close to Mozambique and a Malaria area.  They have had a beautiful little garden, they filter all their water with home made filters.  These kids are having the "Adventure" of their lives and doing great good too.  Brother Hall is a returned missionary and will be invaluable in getting the Sunday School started over there.