Today was Zone Meeting and Transfer Day. All Elders came to our house for their meeting and then lunch of sanwiches and chocolate muffins. Transfers were interdistrict because of the visa problems in South Africa and Swaziland and other African countries. All the Elders seemed content with their transfer, they were somewhat disappointed at not getting a big transfer. Elder Cooley has been here 71/2 months and he already had an interdistrict transfer when he was assigned to be Zone Leader with Elder Reeder so they stayed in Mbabane. Elder Shelton went to Nhlangano to work with Elder Smith, Elder Herrity to GeGe to work with Elder Lyon, Manzini did not change, Elder Munger went to Mbabane to work with Elder Diseko, Elder Tlkotsi is serving with Elder Hensen. They all look like it will be good companionships. They all understood the problems with visas and know that Elder Tualofo will most likely have to stay in Swaziland because his SA visa has expired and don't know if he will get an extension. Elder Sessonga will go home early because his SA visa will expire the end of July. We went over the Evacuation Plan of Missionaries from Swaziland in the case of emergency, however, we explained that this is ground work and they will not have to be evacuated since the govt is not ready to fail. Collected almost all passports to take to immigration tomorrow to get the 6 month visa stamp. Brother Mokoena drove over from Johannesburg and met Brother Dlamini at the Border Post in Nywenya and gave him the cash to pay for the visas. Elder Blackburn had to meet Elder Smith on the Nhlangano road to get the passports of the Elders who forgot to bring theirs or did not get the message. A really full day.
27 June 2011
Went to Immigration to get our passports stamped and they were not ready, were told to come back on Wednesday after all the paperwork is completed. Elder Blackburn picked up the washing machine for Manzini Elders and when he called to make arrangements to take it to them they offered to come and get it and asked if we could fix them dinner, they were hungry and had not bought food for a few days so of course he said yes. Sister Blackburn fixed penne pasta casserole and not a bite was left, they must have been really hungry. Then they played with the neighbors dog and wanted a picture taken with it. Our neighbors have 3 of those huge dogs. Imagine trying to feed them, worse than trying to feed missionaries.
Elder Pierce tried to put back all the music on Sister Blackburn's ipod that got erased when the computer crashed. He could not get it back and then downloaded all his MOTAB music for Sister Blackburn so she would have something to listen to. We feel that he has such a special spirit.
26 June 2011
We went to Church in Mbabane again today, we picked up Sister King at City Inn and Elder Blackburn had several Melchizedek Priesthood interviews to do. So we stayed for Sunday School and Relief Society. We don't often get to stay in a Branch for all 3 meetings since we have 5 units to visit and there are only 4 Sundays most months. It was a good day.
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