Cape Town Mission Field 

    28 July 2018
    Day 231
Saturday


Today we went to do some shopping but the Makro store was crazy. The queue started just as you entered the store and wrapped all the way around it back to the front. So we left for Fish Hoek to look at a potential boarding for the walking elders there. It is a part of a home recently renovated from a fire and is owned by members there; The Forsyth's. They recently returned from living in Canada for quite a few years. They have a big guard dog, Rottweiler, that was a real sweetie. They invited us in for tea and we chatted with them for a couple of hours. It was real pleasant.
We stopped at the local mall for a little while and picked up some nice plants for the flat and office.
We then left for dinner at the Imperial Gardens where we enjoyed a gourmet buffet and was treated like family by Richard, Des and his wife, and Arora. They also had an older gentleman set up front singing songs from our era. He even played "Apache"; an old Ventures instrumental. Made me feel right at home in the west. We even got up and danced a few times thanks to his encouragement and announcing us over the microphone by welcoming us to South Africa. Before the whole event started though Des asked Elder Courtright to step to the microphone an pronounce a blessing on the food. Awesome experience.
View from the balcony in front of the house on the second floor just outside the living room, facing the bay,

Brother Forsyth is hidden behind Sister Courtright



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