Cape Town Mission Field 

28 January 2018
Day 50
Sunday


This morning we attended church at the Hermanus Branch which is located behind the new Mall off the main road. We heard some wonderful sacrament talks and we met Oen Smuts (Jan Smuts is a road around the Pinelands perimeter which is named after the onetime serving President of South Africa, I'm sure their related somehow), the Spires, and Brother Winston who does signs for a living; including all the signs for the church and he is the Patriarch too. He was baptized at 19 (in 1960) and attended the Mowbray Branch. The Mission office at that time was a nice home next to the Mowbray church house on Main Road in Mowbray which also housed several missionaries.

We stopped at Betty's Bay on the way back to see the penguins at Stony Point. This was an old whaling station where they brought in the "Right Whales" for processing all the whale blubber. These "jack ass" penguins, so named for their braying like a donkey sound they make, are sitting on the slipway where the whales were dragged up after being towed in from sea.

This gentleman was watering some plants on the edge of his property and you can see that it is right next to the breeding ground of the penguin colony. Interesting neighbors.

The rock formations were amazing along this stretch of coastline.

We then headed around the point back towards Cape Town and drove along a very picturesque drive with rugged mountains on the left and sheer drops to the water below on the right. Sister Courtright said we should stop at the next pull out, so we stopped at the next pull out to take a picture and Sister Courtright was asked by a young man sitting in the high cab of a road paving machine if she had been to church today, because she looked like she had. And he was praying that he could go to church today instead of working. So Sister Courtright pulled out a Xhosa Book of Mormon for him to read while he was waiting for the road crew to return. She sure is guided by the spirit.








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