Dear Family and Friends from South Africa Feb. 21, 2012,
I am sure you are surprised to hear from me again. We had another great week end and I wanted to share what happened this week end. We went to church in Dundee and they had seven baptisms after church. We stayed for the baptisms. The lady that talked at our water project turn over has been coming to church and her two daughters were baptised. I am going to include pictures. The mother is Jabulani Mthembu and the two daughters are Strong Amanda Sheile and Nomande Mthembu. After the baptism we took them home because we were able to get her a sewing machine. She was so happy. She was crying I am going to die. When we met her at the water project she said, "if I had a sewing machine I could sew and make money." We even took her a sewing project. One of the Elders wants her to make is Levi's into Zulu pants. Zulu pants have bright colors, fringe, different designs on them. He is going to pay her for the work. Elder Hudson gave her 200 ran so she could buy the material and stuff to do it for him. I forgot I had some material that the Indian had given me and I am going to take that material to her, maybe she can make something for the girls out of it. It was a really good feeling to see her so happy with this sewing machine. She also told us she cleans and sweeps the concrete where the water project occurs. I know that someone is keeping it clean because when we drive by it always looks clean. What really makes us happy is when we see so many people getting their water or washing their clothes at the site.
Then on Monday we had eight Elders come to learn to cook some fast meals for when they get home at 9pm. Elder Hudson taught them how to make a perfect omelet, French toast, and his famous peanut butter cookies, that all the grand kids just love. The main meal was soft taco's. Boy were the American Elders excited about taco's. It was really good to see them so excited about food from home. We miss food from home too. We have been lucky, because we have had Keely send us some things we miss: soda crackers, gram crackers, tapioca, Yoshida's sauce, are just a few of the things we have missed and really enjoyed here.
My letter writing is getting interrupted by a wasp. He just flew into the house and has made his way into the office. I have ducked from him a few times and now I don't know where he is. I will keep an eye out for him.
We finally had some lightening and thunder storms like we had last year. The thunder just rolls across the sky, like for miles. I had unplugged the computer and came back to plug it in and walked back out to the living room and saw the flash at the window and then this very loud boom. I turned around and ran back to the computer and unplugged it again. We have had some really good rain in the last week. It rained all night one night and then we had the storm the next night and got lots of rain. This is when they get the rain and it must get them through winter because they don't get rain in the winter. The animals need the rain so they will have drinking water.
Elder Hudson wanted me to tell you about planning for Semo to play the piano at conference for four months and then the transportation didn't get him to New Castle in time to play for the Priesthood session. They have construction on N11 and it now takes two hours to get their and we told them they need to allow more time and the transportation was not there early enough.
I hope you enjoy the pictures. The lady we gave the sewing machine to lives in a mud hut and it was clean. Some of the poorest people are the cleanest people. They always have clean clothes on. We see their clothes drying out on the fences and the whites are the whitest. Sometimes the people do smell of smoke because they have had a fire in their home to keep warm and to cook on. It just smells like what we smell like when we go camping. I like that smell.
With Love,
Sister and Elder Hudson
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