Cape Town Mission Field 

7 May 2018
Day 149
Monday


Today was a stressful day preparing for the mission tour zone conference and the dinner this evening with 40 people. We are trying out Ronald and Esther for the first time as caterer's for the event. Probably not a wise thing to do when you're going to be feeding the area authority from Johannesburg (Elder Palmer) and the director for missionary affairs from Salt Lake City (Elder Nielson).
We started out by gathering the table cloths and bottled water and a few other items from the office. We then went to Sister Courtright's doctor appointment with Dr Frost (neurologist) whom she was referred to by Dr White. He reviewed all the lab work, MRI's and examined Sister Courtright. He concluded that she has some balance issues due to her mild neuropathy in her feet from diabetes, and from mild arthritis in her neck. Her blood pressure was affecting this too but has been corrected when Dr Bapoo took her off the blood pressure medicine. And lastly he felt her glasses weren't adjusted right or the prescription is off causing some issues. All-in-all the doctor was very good. He sent us to an optometrist that he highly recommended. So other than a few aging issues and her glasses we feel we're in pretty good shape.

We had a wonderful zone conference being taught by the Nielson's, the Palmer's, and the Lebethoa's.
They are truly amazing people. Elder Nielson sits in council with the twelve quite often with the prophet and he remarked that they are more amazing in person than what you see on TV during conference.

Dinner wasn't up to the standard we had hoped but it was good. Several commented that they liked it but others said it wasn't anything special. So now we're faced with how to proceed in the future.

Comments

  1. UnknownMay 8, 2018 at 8:32 PM

    So glad that Sandra's symptoms and problems are going to be handled and taken care of without major procedures. Praying for healing for both of you.

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