"The White People Toilet" 5/1/2011

DEAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS THIS FIRST DAY OF MAY 2011,

 

WE JUST SAID GOODBYE TO THE MISSIONARY COUPLE THAT ARE OVER PUBLIC AFFAIRS FOR THE MISSION.  THEY CAME SATURDAY MORNING, AFTER TRAINING MEMBERS UP IN NEWCASTLE ON FRIDAY.  THEY ALSO CAME UP FOR THE CONTRACT SIGNING FOR THE HUMANITARIAN WATER PROJECT, WHICH DIDN'T HAPPEN (WILL EXPLAIN LATER).  BECAUSE OF THE CHANGE IN PLANS WE HAD SOME TIME SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AND ELDER HENINGER THINKS AN ARTICLE SHOULD BE WRITTEN ABOUT THE TOILET PROJECT, WANTED TO SEE THE TOILET.  WE DROVE OUT TO WATERSMEET AND UPON ARRIVAL FOUND THAT THE TOILET WAS CHAINED AND LOCKED.  SISTER MOTAUG CAME OUT TO MEET US AND OF COURSE I ASKED ABOUT THE CHAIN AND LOCK.  ALL OF HER BLACK FRIENDS WANTED TO KNOW WHY "THE WHITE PEOPLE" BUILT HER TOILET.  ALSO IT WAS CONVENIENT FOR THE KIDS TO USE ON THE WAY HOME AND THEY MADE A MESS OF IT.  SHE JUST TOLD HER FRIENDS THAT WE WERE FROM HER CHURCH, AND SHE USED THE CHAIN AND LOCK TO PUT A STOP TO THE MESS.  WE NOW REFER TO IT AS THE WHITE PEOPLE TOILET.

 

WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME GOING UP TO JOBURG TO TAKE ELDER MULLINS TO THE MISSIONARY TRAINING CENTER FOR HIS TRAINING.  HAVING NOT BEEN THERE BEFORE I ASKED  ELDER AND SISTER NIELSEN TO MEET US AT THE TEMPLE (WHICH WE KNEW HOW TO GET TO)  AND TAKE US OUT THERE.  ELDER NIELSEN MET US IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE TEMPLE AND PROMPTLY TOLD US HOW SICK HE WAS AND WOULD NOT BE GOING TO DUNDEE TO HAVE THE CONTRACT SIGNED.  HE HAD AN APPOINTMENT TO GO TO AND SISTER NIELSEN WOULD TAKE US OUT TO THE TRAINING CENTER WHICH SHE DID.  I WAS REMINDED OF THE LOOK ON MY SONS FACE WHEN I SAID GOODBYE TO HIM MANY YEARS AGO WHEN HE WENT INTO THE TRAINING CENTER FOR HIS TRAINING, AND SAW THAT SAME LOOK ON ELDER MULLINS FACE THURSDAY.  WE DID SOME SHOPPING AND PICKED UP SOME HYGIENE KITS FOR OUR PROJECT IN DUNDEE TO BRING BACK WITH US.  WENT TO THE TEMPLE, WHICH WE DON'T GET TO DO NORMALLY AND ENJOYED THE SESSION.  WE THEN WENT OVER TO THE NIELSEN'S FOR DINNER, ELDER NIELSEN WAS STILL NOT FEELING WELL SO WE ATE AND WENT AND STAYED AT TEMPLE HOUSING FOR THE NIGHT.

 

TODAY WE ATTENDED DUNDEE GROUP AND SAW THEM MADE A BRANCH OF THE CHURCH, HAD 121 MEMBERS THERE AND  WILL ENJOY SEEING THEM GROW AND DEVELOP AS A BRANCH.  MOST MEMBERS ARE FIRST GENERATION MEMBERS SO NEED A LOT OF HELP, BUT THEY SURE HAVE STRONG SPIRITS AND WILLING HEARTS.

 

THE FALL WEATHER HAS BEEN PERFECT AND WE CAN OPEN THE DOORS AND GET A WARM CROSS BREEZE IN THE AFTERNOON.  THE LEAVES ARE TURNING AND DROPPING SO FALL IS UPON US.  WE ALSO GOT SOME WARM CLOTHES TO BE A LITTLE WARMER OURSELVES.

 

HOPE EVERYONE IS HAVING A GREAT SPRING,

 

ELDER AND SISTER HUDSON