Cape Town Mission Field 

6 January 2018
Day 28
Saturday


This morning we returned to Franschhoek and presented six Book of Mormons to the artisans working in African open air market who had expressed an interest when we visited a few weeks prior.
Sonnex asked when we would be coming back. Sister Courtright said we could return after we gave him some time to read and ponder the Book of Mormon. He said it would only take him 3 days to read the book, so when could we return. Wow. So we told him we could come back next weekend to answer any of his questions.

We then went to Stellenbosch and visited the botanical garden. It was gorgeous. We had some lunch then walked through the gardens. We then went across the street to the Village Museum, which consists of 4 building restored to their period era with matrons telling the story of each house. We met Jeanetta who spoke about one of the houses. She was a real sweet lady.



Water gardens were lovely, and the lily pads were ginormous. There were hundreds of tadpoles in the water, some with their back legs coming out.















There were some crazy and some gorgeous plants.
This one looked very strange and when it bloomed it looked even stranger.


This one was gorgeous.

















This was the second church built in the city, after the first one burned down, and was moved farther out of the downtown city area at the time to prevent a similar occurrence from happening when many buildings went up in smoke with the first church because of their close proximity to each other. The stained glass was awesome and the pipe organ was huge. There was a wedding setting up but we were able to peak in before everything got started.

The magistrates house even had a music room complete with an upright piano, one of only 6 made in the world. I know what you're thinking, but this is definitely different from the upright piano's you're thinking of. The strings were strung vertically above the keyboard.

And they even had indoor showers back in the 1850's. Not sure how it worked but there appears to be a pump handle on the right side similar to a standing bike tire pump.

















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