Cape Town Mission Field 

3 April 2018
Day 115
Tuesday


Today was a day to make new friends. We finally met the Peterson's, who've been in town for the weekend. But due to Elder Courtright being under the weather we haven't had a chance to interact with them yet. We also received a new Elder from Papua New Guinea, Elder Lare. He arrived in between normal arrival dates so we had a special training session just for him. He's all smiles.

We went to lunch with the Peterson's at the River Club. It turns out that Elder Huang and Sibiya brought the new elder there for lunch too. 
We then went downtown to the District 6 museum. It is housed in an old Methodist church and has artifacts and stories of the area known as District 6 that was occupied by people of all races and colors and how the white apartheid dominating political party forcibly moved everyone out of the area into "townships" in 1966 declaring the area a white group only area. All the buildings were then bulldozed down. The plaque of shame on the outside of the building reads:

“All who pass by remember with shame the many thousands of people who lived for generations in District Six and other parts of this city and were forced by law to leave their homes because of the colour of their skins. Father, forgive us.”

Mural on front wall


Tower of street signs from District 6


Comments

  1. UnknownApril 8, 2018 at 1:58 PM

    Wow, it is amazing how people can be so prejudiced. We are all children of God.

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