Sister Ward called us on Wednesday and asked us to come to Johannesburg and be with her because Elder Ward has a large aneurysm on his Aortic Artery, the abdominal artery and the doctor was going to do emergency surgery on Friday. So, of course we got everything done we had to get done and left for Johannesburg on Thursday. Everyone is going to fast and pray for Elder Ward Thursday and Friday.
We were at South African Immigration and saw this lady with 10 pound of flour on her head, she walked across the border into South Africa, by the time we got through the line she was gone.
This is the time of year Africa burns, everything is so dry; they do not even try to put the fires out, mostly they set them to burn the brush; This is all over Africa.
There is a small town on the way to Johannesburg by the name of Caroline and this 4 way stop was just too funny.
We got to Johannesburg, our South African telephone had been restricted because it needed to be registered, we did not know this so we did not have a telephone when we left Swaziland; We could not call Elder and Sister Ward and no one could call us. The Doctor Elder Ward saw decided to do more tests to confirm the size of the aneurysm and where it extended to on the artery. The scan will be done Monday afternoon then on Tuesday the Doctor will decide on the type of surgery or if he will need surgery. So we had a nice visit with them and met Elder and Sister Martineau from the Area Legal Department. Sister Martineau fixed us breakfast, then back to Swaziland today. We were kind of glad they could not reach us to tell us not to come.
Was that 10 pounds or 10 kilos of flour...it is amazing what they can carry on their head seemingly without thinking about it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for info on Elder Ward.