Cape Town Mission Field 

28 February 2018
Day 81
Wednesday


Today is our daughter and son-in-laws wedding anniversary, well actually it is on the 29th of February, but that only happens every 4 years, so we celebrate today. 
Happy Anniversary to Jackie and Jake!!!
If I'm not mistaken this is probably their 10 year anniversary. Woo Hoo!!! My how time flies.

Today Elder Courtright reviewed the housing situation with President Lebethoa to determine what if any boardings will be needing to close. We are loosing a two of our senior missionary couples soon. President Watson (2nd Councilor) will be leaving in March and the Peterson's will be leaving in April. The Peterson's are right on the bay in Port Alfred next to the golf course. Tough duty there.

Today the bore hole water truck arrived (in two trips) to fill up our water tanks out back. We now have water for piping to the toilets and for use in general cleaning. This will greatly save the amount of water we would normally go through. The top of the tanks are now connected to the rain gutters to catch the rain water; when it rains. I talked to the worker in the cab and he was wearing a NY Yankees style baseball cap. When I asked him about it, it became apparent that he liked it for its looks and that it represented something in the States, but had no idea who the NY Yankees were.



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