Cape Town Mission Field 

21 April 2018
Day 133
Saturday

This morning we baked two applesauce cakes for Sister Courtright to take to the Langa Relief Society Birthday. We arrived at 2:00 as planned but only found one sister there. Eventually about 30 sisters in total arrived and they started around 3:00. The food showed up around 4:00 and they started to shut down around 5:30.

Elder Courtright sat outside in the car and read all the articles prescribed for the upcoming conference with the area authority in two weeks.

It was amazing to see all the activity in the neighborhood. It reminded us of the 50's or 60's when kids would be roaming the neighborhoods with families outside talking with neighbors. It was quite active. There is a field that separates the rented building where the church meets and the next street over where a large group had gathered for a braai (barbeque). There was one thing that was unusual and not typical of what we would find in the states. In that if you had to go...you went. Sort of like Forest Gump. The men would just step into the field and relieve themselves. The group gathered on the side street at times the men would just step across the road and relieve themselves at the edge of the field. All the time while other men, women and children were walking up and down the streets and crossing the fields. Elder Courtright said he counted 15 'male members' while Sister Courtright was in the church attending the birthday party. Not what he had planned on spending his time on Saturday watching. Welcome to Africa.