DEAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS JULY 17, 2011,
MY WEEK TO WRITE WAS LAST WEEK AND I JUST PUT IT OFF UNTIL IT BECAME OLD NEWS AND I WAS A BIT LAZY TOO. I THOUGHT FOR SURE SISTER HUDSON WOULD DO IT THIS WEEK BUT NO I HAVE TO TAKE MY TURN. IT'S NOT THAT WE DON'T LIKE TO WRITE, WE'RE JUST NOT SURE HOW INTERESTED IN THE THINGS WE DO, YOU LIKE TO READ. SEEMS AS THOUGH WE DO A LOT OF THE SAME THINGS EACH WEEK AS PART OF OUR MISSION AND I DON'T LIKE TO JUST TALK ABOUT THE SAME THING.
HAVING SAID THAT HERE WE GO AGAIN. LAST WEEK WE HAD OUR FIRST ZONE MEETING OF THIS TRANSFER AND MET ALL THE NEW ELDERS THAT ARE NOW SERVING HERE IN LADYSMITH AND NEWCASTLE ZONE. THE REAL CHANGE WAS THAT ELDER WARD, THE SENIOR COUPLE FROM NEWCASTLE WAS QUITE SICK AND DID NOT MAKE THE MEETING. THINGS FOR HIM WENT DOWN HILL FROM THERE, ENDING UP IN THE HOSPITAL FOR AN EIGHT DAY STAY. AT ONE POINT THEY WERE NOT SURE HE WAS GOING TO MAKE IT. WE WERE ASKED BY THE MISSION PRESIDENT TO GO AND SPEND SOME TIME WITH SISTER WARD. WE WERE AT A TRAINING MEETING ON THE SATURDAY AND WENT TO THE HOSPITAL IN THE AFTERNOON AND WHEN SISTER WARD SAW SISTER HUDSON SHE JUST BROKE DOWN. HE WAS IN ICU AND VISITING HOURS WERE LIMITED AND SISTER WARD DIDN'T DRIVE AT NIGHT SO WE STAYED AND TOOK HER BACK THAT EVENING FOR A VISIT. WE TOOK HER OUT FOR LUNCH TO GIVE HER A BREAK ALSO. AFTER CHURCH ON SUNDAY WE TOOK A MEAL UP TO HER AND THEN BACK TO THE HOSPITAL SUNDAY NIGHT. MONDAY THE MISSION DOCTOR CAME DOWN FROM JOBURG AND STAYED THE NIGHT AND THINGS IMPROVED AND ELDER WARD WAS RELEASED FRIDAY AND IS DOING WELL AT HOME NOW. TURNED OUT TO BE HIS GALL BLATTER, BUT IT IS ATTACHED TO THE LIVER AND HE WOULD HAVE TO BE OPENED UP SO FOR NOW HE WILL TRY TO CORRECT IT WITH DIET. ANOTHER REQUEST FROM PRESIDENT VON STETTEN WAS FOR US TO TAKE A MISSIONARY UP TO THE TEMPLE ON FRIDAY AS HE IS BEING RELEASED SOON AND THE TEMPLE WILL BE CLOSED SO THIS WAS HIS ONLY OPPORTUNITY TO GO AS HE LIVES IN KENYA. WE LEFT THE BOARDING AT 4:10, DROVE TO NEWCASTLE, PICKED UP THE ELDER AND DROVE TO JOBURG ARRIVING AT 9:10AM. WENT TO THE TEMPLE, MET WITH THE HUMANITARIAN PEOPLE HAD LUNCH, PICKED UP SOME BLANKETS AND DROVE BACK TO NEWCASTLE THEN LADYSMITH AT 9:30 PM. THURSDAY WE SPENT THE DAY IN DUNDEE LOOKING AT PROPERTY FOR A NEW CHAPEL WITH LOGAN FROM JOBURG THAT DOES THE BUYING. LOOKED AT SEVERAL BUILDING SITES WITH THE REALTOR, AND AFTER THREE HOURS LOOKING THE REALTOR SAID NO BUILDING PERMITS ARE BEING ISSUED BECAUSE OF A WATER SHORTAGE. I ASK HOW THAT COULD BE AND HE SAID "THIS IS SOUTH AFRICA" AND NO TIME FRAME WHEN IT WOULD BE CORRECTED. LOGAN STAYED AND WAS GOING TO FINE OUT WHAT COULD BE DONE IF WE WANTED TO BUILD A BUILDING, HAVEN'T HEARD BACK FROM HIM AS OF YET. YESTERDAY AND TODAY WE HAD DISTRICT CONFERENCE IN NEWCASTLE. SISTER HUDSON HAD TWO OF OUR STUDENS PLAY PRELUDE MUSIC AND THE MISSION PRESIDENT ASKED THEM TO STAND UP AND RECOGNIZED THEM WHEN HE TALKED. BACK HOME THIS WOULD BE NO BIG DEAL BUT DOWN HERE, WHERE SISTER HUDSON IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE DISTRICT TO PLAY THE PIANO, THERE IS A NEED FOR SOMEONE TO TAKE HER PLACE WHEN WE LEAVE. THE GIRL IS 10 AND HER BROTHER IS 13 AND THEY ARE DOING JUST GREAT.
WE SEND OUR LOVE TO ALL,
ELDER AND SISTER HUDSON
PS. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS ALL OVER, THEY WANT MORE DONE IN DUNDEE AT OUR WATER SITES.
ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BROTHER GRANT WHO IS SERVING A MISSION IN THE WASHINGTON EVERETT MISSION.
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