Cape Town Mission Field 

30 January 2018
Day 52
Tuesday

Today was a rather hectic day going shopping in preparation for transfer. Elder Courtright had go give his first incoming presentation to the new elders. Which consisted of educating them on safe driving practices and the process to become certified as a driver in South Africa. How to fill out an accident report. Safety in general, on the streets. Car maintenance and the responsibilities associated with that. And housing maintenance and cleanliness. Sister Courtright continues to work on baptism submissions, filling orders for the elders (supplies for their flats and missionary supplies like pamphlets, Book of Mormons, etc.), and preparing for the transfers tomorrow, which consists of creating a lunch box for each elder traveling to or from the airport tomorrow.

When we arrived at the Makro strore right at 9:00 AM when they opened and there were huge lines of people entering the store. Once inside I saw that they all headed for the bottled water aisle and each was loading up there prescribed maximum count of 5 boxes of 5 liters of bottled water. One of the store clerks said its been like this every morning for the past few weeks when they local officials announced day zero coming up in early April. The fork lifts were chasing back and forth from the storage area to the pick up point in the back of the store and they couldn't keep up with the demand.
Kind of scary.


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