Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Newsletter from South Africa 6/13/2011


DEAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS, JUNE 13, 2011
 
ANOTHER BUSY WEEK HERE IN THE MISSION FIELD, NOT THAT YOU ALL DON'T HAVE BUSY WEEKS.  SISTER HUDSON WAS ASKED TO PLAY THE PIANO SO SISTER WARD COULD SING AT THE OUR ZONE CONFERENCE ON WEDNESDAY SO WE DROVE TO NEWCASTLE ON MONDAY SO THEY COULD PRATICE TOGETHER, AND OF COURSE CHINESE FOOD FOR LUNCH AT 4PM.  TUESDAY PRESIDENT VON STETTEN CAME THROUGH LADYSMITH ON HIS WAY TO NEWCASTLE FOR THE CONFERENCE ON WEDNESDAY, BUT WANTED TO DRIVE TO DUNDEE TO LOOK AT A BOARDING THAT WE FOUND SO TWO MORE ELDERS CAN SERVE THERE.  BEFORE LEAVING FOR DUNDEE WE MADE LUNCH FOR THE PRESIDENT, HIS WIFE AND THE TWO ASSITANTS.  HE ALSO WANTED TO LOOK AT THE PROPERTY WE FOUND FOR A NEW CHAPEL IN DUNDEE.  HE CHANGED HIS MIND ON THE BOARDING FROM A FOUR MAN TO FIND ANOTHER TWO MAN SO BACK TO THE HUNT.  HE LIKED THE PROPERTY AND WILL HAVE SOMEONE COME FROM JOBURG TO LOOK AT IT.  AFTER ZONE CONFERENCE ON WEDNESDAY, WHICH SISTER HUDSON MADE COOKIES FOR, WE STARTED BACK TO LADYSMITH.  ON THE WAY THE REALTOR PHONED AND HAD ANOTHER PROPERTY TO LOOK AT AND WONDERED WHEN WE WOULD BE BACK IN DUNDEE, I TOLD HIM WE WERE ON OUR WAY HOME AND COULD SWING BY ON THE WAY.  FOUR HOURS LATER AND LOOKING AT PROPERTY THAT WOULD NOT WORK FOR A BUILDING, BUT DID TALK TO SOMEONE THAT JUST BOUGHT A LARGE PROPERTY AND WANTED TO SELL SOME OF IT OFF.  THE REALTOR AND I WENT AND TALKED TO HIM AND ALSO WENT AND TOOK A LOOK.  I THEN PHONED PRESIDENT VON STETTEN AND TOLD HIM OF THE NEW PROPERTY AND HE WAS GOING TO PHONE JOBURG AND HAVE SOMEONE COME DOWN AND LOOK .
 
THURSDAY WE HAD ANOTHER SENIOR COUPLE FROM DURBAN COME STAY WITH US.  THEIR ASSIGNMENT IS EMPLOYMENT AND THEY WERE DOING A CLASS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, AND WOULD GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY AND DO SOME FOLLOW-UP.  THEY ARE FROM PROVIDENCE, UTAH, CLOSE TO KERILYNN IN LOGAN, SO WE HAD SOME THINGS IN COMMON.  WELL AFTER LUNCH ON SUNDAY THEY LEFT FOR HOME AND THAT NIGHT THE SIX ELDERS CAME BY FOR DESSERT.  IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY AND SO THEY SANG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME BUT BY THE TIME THEY LEFT I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO SEND A NEWLETTER OFF.  THEN TODAY WE HAD A DISTRICT ACTIVITIY, SO THAT'S WHY THE LATE LETTER.  JUST RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE CONTRACTOR THAT THE WATER SITES ARE DONE, SO WILL DRIVE UP TO DUNDEE TOMORROW AND CHECK IT OUT AND SEE THE POWERS TO BE AND LET THEM KNOW WE WILL HAVE A HANDING OVER PROGRAM ON THE 25TH OF JUNE AND WOULD LIKE THE MAYOR TO COME AND SPEAK AND HAVE A NEWS ARTICLE FOR THE PAPER. 
 
WE LOVE YOU
ELDER HUDSON & SISTER HUDSON

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