04 Mar 2011
We went to Church in Manzini today and what a surprise; the sisters in Relief Society sang God Be With You Til We Meet Again to me, sometimes we feel that we are  not making a difference, then Heavenly Father gives us these moments where we can share our love for each other.  We were able to say goodby to the Saints there.  Elder Blackburn brought me home and went back for his District Meetings, about an hour later the phone rang and Elder Zweifel had been trying to reach Elder Blackburn, I was able to reach Branch President Mahalele to get a message to Elder Blackburn,  it seems 2 of the Mbabane Elders had an accident in the truck.  These 2 were not even supposed to be driving they are in a walking district, they always seem to find a way around rules when it is something they want to do.  It seems that most of the vehicle accidents happen at transfer time, they are trying to say goodby to their investigators and new members.  So Elder Blackburn left his meeting and went to Mbabane to take care of everything and get the truck towed to the garage.

03 Mar 2011
We went to the grocery store this morning and Elder Blackburn had to buy air time for the Elder's phones and he always receives paper coupons from  the receipt machine, well, he bought 16 coupons and 3 of the clerks thought the machine had broken and they came over, when they found out that it was cell time, Elder Blackburn told them, "when you come to church, you get air time", of course all of them wanted to know where the Church was and what time.  He finally told them the air time was for our missionaries and they all got a very good laugh. LOL Those women would have shown up at Church tomorrow if he had not told them differently.

02 Mar 2011
We got up early, had breakfast at Mugg and Bean, went to the mall to exchange a hat and then headed back to Swaziland, it took us about 5 hours; Elder Blackburn then went to a baptism interview with a young man who had paid for an abortion for his girlfriend.  He was 18 at the time.

01 March 2011
When we got up this morning, we had a very nice breakfast at Little Haven, Grace is always so happy to have couples there she can visit with.  We packed the car and left for Richards Bay, Sister Nuzman was not feeling very well so when we got to Richards Bay she laid down for a while and Elder Nuzman, Elder Blackburn went to the mall to purchase a particular hat he wanted.  When they got back Sister Nuzman was feeling better and wanted to go to a Thi restaurant for dinner, then we watched the movie "The Help".

29 Feb 2011
We drove to Durban this morning, we needed to pick up Elder Sancree's passport, the office forgot to give it to him when they delivered him to Elder Nuzman yesterday, we also picked up the mail for Richards Bay and Swaziland Elders.  Then we picked up Elder Blackburn's suits and went sightseeing with the Nuzmans, they had not seen the landmark soccer stadium so we had a fun day after all.

28 Feb 2011
We got up this morning and the phone rang,( always happens) Elder Nuzman must drive half way to Durban to pick up a missionary who was having visa problems and had to leave the country for a day and was now back.  Sister Nuzman and I went to get our hair cut and we got back about the same time.  then we decided to go for a drive to an area called Cape vidal - it is probably one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

The Cape is part of a nature reserve with some of the big animals, hippo,zebra, kudu which is the picture above - a young kudu.

27 Feb 2011

Today we spent on the road driving to Richards Bay to spend a few night with Elder and Sister Nuzman, they had dinner waiting for us - then a nice visit before bed.