Cape Town Mission Field 

30 April 2018
Day 142
Monday


Today is Missionary Leadership Conference where all the zone leaders get on line and discuss items with the West Cape zone leaders who meet here in the Mission office with President and Sister Lebethoa. Today we had Elder Palmer and his wife join us from Johannesburg. He's the area authority.
Elder Courtright picked up the luncheon food from Esther Kintu at her flat in Langa. As he parked on the side street a sister from the branch came up and asked him what he was doing there. He said that he came to pick up some food from Esther. She asked if he always parked on the side street, to which he indicated that he had only been here once before and that is where he parked. She said someone was looking in his car and suggested that he move it around front. A space opened up so he moved the car and then made several trips upstairs to the Kintu's one room flat and back to the car carrying the serving trays with the food she had prepared. It was fried chicken, grilled beef, potato's and gravy, green beans and carrots, with a banana/apple yogurt dish. Elder Courtright ended up wearing a lot of the gravy as is spilled out of the serving tray.
This evening we joined Elder and Sister Palmer with President and Sister Lebethoa at the Cattle Baron Restaurant in Pinelands. It was a real nice restaurant in a gated business complex opposite the intersection where the hospital is located. It was the first time we had driven in that part of Pinelands.
We had a wonderful meal and conversation. Elder Palmer asked us and the Lebethoa's to share what it was we loved about each other. Sister Palmer grew up in Bennion, near where we grew up. She went to rival Cottonwood High School and graduated the same year as Sister Courtright. Elder Palmer is the same age as Elder Courtright but graduated one year earlier, in 1973, because they start a year earlier in New Zealand where he is from. He grew up on a sheep farm. We shared stories  about sheep farming, as those are some cherished memories of Elder Courtright's great-grandmother Daniels taking care of the orphaned (bummers) sheep during lambing season.

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  1. UnknownMay 3, 2018 at 11:01 AM

    Oh, the sheep business. I was just telling someone the other day about you boys having to help with the sheep, and how thankful that I was a girl and didn't have to go. It is indeed a small world.

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