Dear Family and Friends March 15. 2012,
We have had a very busy week. We had transfers last Tuesday. Then went to Howick on Thursday to meet the Miller's and have them follow us up to Newcastle. We left at 6am and got home at 7:30 pm. They are from Boise, Idaho and are excited to be here.
We went to church in Dundee Sunday. They are continuing to have close to one hundred at their services. They meet in a school up there. This young girl who I have made a fuss over a lot said to me Sunday take me to your home. I said we stay in Ladysmith. She said no to your home in America. I said I would love to take you home and she replied but you won't take me will you? How sad it is that we can't take her to our home. She said she is in grade seven and is having a hard time with the Zulu language, because she doesn't know Zulu and is trying to learn it. It is hard to learn Zulu because they click their tongue. It reminds be of trying to learn some Navajo. They make grunting sounds. I never could do that either.
One of the Elders wanted a pair of Zulu pants and the lady finished them last week. We took them to him Wednesday, because we had Zone Conference and he came down from Swaziland. He had an old pair of his blue jeans decorated in the Zulu fashion. They have bright colors, fringe, and braid sewed on them.
We had Zone Conference on Wednesday. We were asked to take care of the lunch preparations. I made about 14 dozen cookies. We bought apples for the Elders break. Then we order the pizza for their lunch. The pizza place delivered the pizza right about noon. We went and paid for it before the meeting started.
We had one young sister at the conference because she has her mission call. She is really excited to go in May. I played the opening and closing songs.
Elder Hudson had to make a doctor's appointment for one of the Elders this morning and he also took him to the doctor because he is new and didn't know where the office was. The Elder had a spider bite and it is not healing.
Elder Hudson also had to go over to the church and get on the computer to see if a person from Durban could walk him through steps to get the computer to transmit data. He said it didn't work. The person from Durban will have to come out to fix it.
Monday, we had a date. We went out to Nambiti for an evening game drive and had dinner out there. We saw two buck that we hadn't seen before. We almost went walking with the elephants. They were about two car lengths away going along a ridge eating trees. They walk,rip off a branch, and just keep walking and eating. We also saw some small elephants but the grass was so high we couldn't get a good picture of them. Beefy was leading the group along the way. He only has one tusk. He lost the other one some time ago in a fight with another elephant. Lee our drive got a call that the lions were on a hunt and might be going to make a kill. By the time we got away from the elephants and headed in that direction, they called and said the kill was off. We watch thunder clouds roll in from three directions, with lightening. The sky was different colors and changing every few minutes. Elder Hudson was able to take a few pictures. I will include one at the end. We were lucky it didn't rain until we were back at the lodge in and safe. They said the last two nights they have gotten wet from the rain. I got pretty cold before we got back. I did have my rain jacket. Dinner was just wonderful. We had egg plant, tomato, and cheese starter, steak with cherry sauce and blue cheese, roasted vegetables, and sweet potatoes. The dessert was meringue filled with whip cream, apples, and some other fruits. The presentation was wonderful.
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