TRANSFER WEEK, and we thought all the immigration problems were fixed!!  We took Elder Van Scheltema to Piet Retif and picked up Elder Castleberry.  When we got to the South African Border Post and passports stamped the immigration officer who stamped Elder Castleberry's passport came out and asked for it back so it was given to him and he went in a back room then a woman came out and said there was a problem with the Lesotho stamp and he had overstayed his visit to South Africa and we pointed out that Elder Castleberry had a 25 month visa for South Africa so she went back in the back room, then after a while the man came back and said we must pay R3000. since Elder Castleberry overstayed his visa then the woman came back and said yes we must pay.  Sister Blackburn then said, "we will go back into South Africa to New Castle and call the Lawyers".  Then the woman said, "he can go." we said,  "but he will be back tomorrow will he have a problem" she said, "no more problems, he can come back tomorrow and no problems".  Why they would think we would just hand over R3000. is beyond our thinking. R3000. = about $500. american dollars.  So we got Elder Castleberry delivered to his companion in Mbabane, he will be Zone Leader here.  Tomorrow we take 3 Elders to South Africa and as they say here, we go "the other side" of the Country.

Elder Van Scheltema just spent 6 months in Swaziland.