Cape Town Mission Field 

10 January 2018
Day 32
Wednesday


Today was pretty much an all day exercise at the office with Sister Courtright getting out the supply orders to all the districts and Elder Courtright trying to get a handle on all the warranty service that is due on the fleet of cars we have (61). Most are due every 15K kilometers, but some are due every 10K kilometers. The warranty service is something we cover on all our vehicles to ensure they get serviced properly and stay in good shape for the missionaries. This month alone there are 25 due for service.

We called it quits early and went to dinner at the Grand West casino again and asked for Bolanga to serve us (the chicken curry was awesome). He was excited to see us again and would like to go to church on Sunday. So we are making arrangements for the Elders to contact him along with the Mandalay Ward mission leader who can greet him and his family at the Merrydale center where the church is located in that area. It is in a strip mall type of building that the church as rented for that area. Bolanga lives in the adjoining township of Phillipi, which is closed to Elders right now because it isn't safe following a car jacking incident at knife point with one of our Elders recently. Even Bolanga was concerned about having anyone meet him at his home in that area. But, we will work something out.

Afterwards we went to the theatre located in the casino to see the latest Star Wars movie, the last Jedi. Yes, Senior missionary couples can go to the movies. :)
It was really good. I find it hard to look at Luke and Leia to see how old they seem. It seems like it wasn't that long ago that we were watching them as young actors in the original Star Wars movie.

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