Cape Town Mission Field 

7 February 2018
Day 60
Wednesday


Wow...Day 60. Can't hardly believe it.

This morning Elder Courtright was up at 5:30 am to get a vehicle to Reeds Chevrolet in downtown Cape Town for service. It was amazing, I drove straight to it without getting lost once. 
Back home to pick up Sister Courtright. We stopped for breakfast at Ou Meul in the village square and had eggs Benedict.
Today in the office we had our Senior Couples meeting (Skype across the East Cape). Then, right afterwards we had our office meeting with President and his wife.
Mostly discussed was how we are going to handle 'day zero' when the water gets turned off. Right now we are at Stage 6 where restrictions are down to 50 L of water per person per day. The mission is trucking in water from Johannesburg for all the elders to have several 10 L bottles of water set up in their flats for 'day zero'. The mission office is also installing two 10,000 L tanks to hold non-potable water that we can supply the elders with to use for laundry and grey water for the toilets. This water will need to be purified with special tablets/drops being supplied by the church. The water for the large tanks is coming from bore holes (drilled wells) that the church has access to. They also have bore holes on 3 church chapel sites in the area for emergency purposes.
We are also reviewing our 72 hour packs that we have in the flats for 'day zero' should we have to hunker down if things get crazy.

Other than that, just another day at the office.

Fear not for I am with you.
            Isaiah 41:10

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