Dinner with Elder and Sister Ward

25 Sept 2011
Last night we fixed dinner for Elder and Sister Ward, we had bought a large container of tomatoes and they were very good, Elder Ward was wondering where he could get such good tomatoes and Sister Blackburn told him, "you will have to go to the black market".  That will now and forever be a joke between us all.  We did have a great good time with them.  They did not go to Nhlangano with us today, they decided to go to the Ezulwini Branch instead.  We went to Nhlangano and the Temple Recommend interviews did not show up.  We also delivered 3 wheelchairs for the Branch President to give to people in his branch who really need them.  We also went to GeGe to see the Elders and take a DVD to Sister Malinga of the Lobola proceedings for her son's wedding. While there, she told us that they had slaughtered her cow yesterday and were having their celebration and would we like some of the meat.  Of course, we said yes and she sent a bag of beef home with us.  We love these times of interacting with the Saints here.  They are so humble and give their love so freely, we feel so blessed to know them.  Below is a picture of how we brought the meat home, black bag and all.  It was really some good home cutting. Even a couple of steaks, a roast and stew meat.

We received such a sweet note from Mary about what happened with her son Christopher.  We feel so blessed to have her as part of our family relationships.  Elder Blackburn has been a little frustrated with the District President, he won't hold his meetings and is hesitant to meet with Elder Blackburn.  We really hope there will be a breakthrough with him this week.  We met with Sister Ntshalintshali and Sister Mabusa in GeGe today.  Sister Mabusa will be attending the Temple on Saturday the 1st and is apprehensive and is looking forward to Sister Blackburn being there. (If President Von Stetten approves).  All in all a very satisfying Sunday.