06 June 2011
Traveling to New Castle, South Africe, you never know what you will see on their heads; both have eggs.

The African women work so hard every day from carrying things on their heads to wheelbarrows.





The Bank in Wokkerstrom, South Africa, must have been built in early 20th Century

Wintertime in Africa and the Trip back from Zone Conference.

Coming back from Zone Conference we had to go through Immigration at South African and Swaziland Border Posts, South Africa did not want to let Elder Tualofo to leave because he had a temporary visa and the Immigration Officer just did not understand it.  He got so confused he picked up a stamp and just stamped it without meaning to do so. It happened to be the exit stamp!! That was truly the Lord working to help us, we had been there 1.5 hours while trying to get 18 people through Immigration; what was great, no problems with Swaziland.

09 June 2011

We received a telephone call from Brother Mokoena from the Area Office and we have to get work permits for 18 people in place tomorrow!!  Huge job to get done, all Elders will meet in Mbabane and we will have all the paper work for them to fill out and spend the rest of the day at Home Affairs getting the applications in place.  If we cannot get this done, Legal Department of the Area Office in Johannesburg are threatening to pull all missionaries out of Swaziland.  Almost all drama in the Durban Mission seems to come from Swaziland, sometimes we feel like we could use a week on a warm beach somewhere, especially now it is wintertime and cold.