Cape Town Mission Field 

19 May 2018
Day 161
Saturday


Today was a lazy Personal Day. We went to the Josephine Mill Museum in Newlands. Turns out it is closed for repairs until June/July. This mill is mentioned in early Mormon history in the area. As one of the first converts around the 1860's invited several local people to his house and they all wanted to be baptized right then and there. So they walked a mile or so down to the Liesbeek river and were baptized. The next day the local paper said that the sins were so great from those people that were baptized that they washed down the river and destroyed the mill. Don't know how true that is, but it's a great story. We will visit it again once it reopens.
We stopped at the office for a minute and found the workers laying some pea gravel along the roadway into the office area.

We got back to our flat after stopping for lunch at our favorite Cuban restaurant in Woodstock just in time to see the last bit of the royal wedding. We saw them finish the ceremony in the chapel then board the coach for the ride to the reception hall. This was quite the well watched event here, for reasons you can imagine. The full ceremony was on the local channel from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.


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