19 Oct 2011

19 Oct 2011
Well it is October 19 and we still do not have the sewing machines released by Customs; it will probably take another week for delivery since we are leaving for Durban on Saturday via Pietermaritzburg.  A sister Cain lives there and Elder Blackburn baptized her 50 years ago.  The family has been extremely active in the Church - the Caines serve in the Johannesburg Temple every other week.  The Elders in the Ezulwini area came by after District Development Meeting and we gave them left over spaghetti.  They must have been really hungry, they ate every bite that was left.

18 Oct 2011
Elders called early and they did not have water in their flats in Manzini, so they came here to shower and get ready for their day; Sister Blackburn fed them biscuits, gravy and scrambled eggs.  Two American Elders and the rest from Australia and African Countries.  They loved it.

17 Oct 2011
Still can't seem to get the sewing machines out of customs.  Elder and Sister Webb came by to tell us goodby, they went back to Johannesburg after a couple of days in Swaziland.  Elders had activity at the Cultural Center and seemed to enjoy it.  We did not accompany them.  They always try to come by on their pday.

16 Oct 2011
Conference shown in all the Branches, we attended in Ezulwini, the Temple missionaries were there too.  Elder and Sister Webb went to GeGe and had a wonderful experience.  Then they went to Nhlangano.  They were meeting with all the Branch Presidents to explain the Perpetual Education Fund so the Presidents could encourage their young people to get training for work.

15 Oct 2011
We met the Temple Missionaries at the border post.  With the Temple closed they came to Swaziland for R&R.  So we spent the day with them showing them the sights of Swaziland.  Johannesburg is in the plains area of South Africa and Swaziland is a mountainous area of the Continent.  We went to dinner with them at the Chinese Restaurant.  Elder and Sister Webb and Elder and Sister Zawacky decided to be on their own for dinner.  Good day all around.

14 Oct 2011
Elder Blackburn had a quick trip to Nhlangano to get their projector working so they could view General Conference the amplifier kept breaking, he finally bought a better one and it worked.  Elder and Sister Webb came to Swaziland today and invited us to have dinner with them at Summerfield.  Elder and Sister Zawacky were at Nhlangano when Elder Blackburn got there so he invited them to dinner also. 

13 Oct 2011
Elder Blackburn delivered a wheel chair to Stanley Dlamini to take to someone he knows and the report was, "the man was so happy, when he would need to go to the doctor the family would take him in a wheelbarrow.  His wife really started to cry when Stanley delivered the chair.  Delivering a couple of wheelchairs has motivated Stanley to ask for his mission papers, this helped him make his final decision.

12 Oct 2011
Had the Zone Leaders take the portable baptismal font to GeGe.  Now they can have their baptismal services there instead of trying to come up with the transport money to go to Nhlangano.