Cape Town Mission Field 

    13 March 2019
    Day 459
Wednesday

Happy Birthday to our daughter Jackie!
This morning we picked up the Bullman's and took them to the Bank in the Howard Center so they could close out their bank account. The banks here are quite painful to deal with and today was no exception. We then headed to the office where Sister Courtright and Sister Bullman worked on the mail and preparing the weekly supply orders for the zone leaders. Elder Bullman and Elder Courtright went up to Tableview to look at a bike problem and they determined that the elders could take it to their local bike shop as it wasn't anything major. We all went to the River Club for a small bite to eat. Elder Bullman saw the sign above the entrance near the putting green that says "The more I practice, the luckier I get" by Gary Player. Elder Bullman indicated that Gary Player comes to church on occasion in Knysna with his wife and daughter who are both members. And he has played golf with the elders there when the occasion permitted. We finished a few things up at the office then took the Bullman's to the airport and had another small bit to eat before sending them off to Ireland. It would be great to meet them again on their home turf. We will miss them. They were both a joy and a pleasure to be around.
It was back to the office to again catch up on some more paperwork before heading home around 8:30 (leases, phones, baptismal records, orders, etc. etc. etc.). We did manage to call Jackie to wish her a happy birthday. Elder Opolot and Elder Brannen stopped by to pick up the supplies for tomorrow's zone conference and they sang her happy birthday too.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
Cape Town Mission Field   28 October 2019   Day 687 Monday Count Up => +1 We have now started our personal tour of South Africa, this is Day 1. We headed for the Cape of Good Hope today knowing it was going to be raining off and on. This is a trip that you spend a lot of time in the car and we were hoping for sunny breaks when we got out to see things. We asked Martha to come along and she was excited to do so. We first stopped at Simon's Town to see the penguins. We were practically the first on the beach. We met Sean Robertson from Idaho but grew up in Salt Lake around 45th South and Redwood Road. He has traveled the world (52 countries) working mostly on ships as a repair diver and inspector. We left just as it started to rain. We then went down to the Cape of Good Hope and the sun was out so we hiked up to the lighthouse and had some great weather. We also drove down to the beach and took some photos there too. We then went to Scarborough for lunch then u...
Read more
Image
Cape Town Mission Field       25 September 2018     Day 290 Tuesday Today was a quiet day around the office and we did make a Makro run for missionary supplies. Most of the day was spent catching up on emails and orders and baptisms and car issues. The Mandalay elders took their car in for service and we picked it up for them in the afternoon. There are some pretty white flowers blooming in the corner of the lot that I took a picture of.
Read more
Image
Cape Town Mission Field       10 September 2018     Day 275 Monday This was a 'real' Monday. We got a call from the Fish Hoek elders informing us that they lost their phone. The Gugulethu elders hit a pot hole last night and got a flat and drove on it to the chapel because they were driving on their spare, due to a flat tire from Saturday. The zone leaders couldn't help them because their spare was flat. The Elsie River elders lent them their spare but driving home to their flat the car was driving funny. And this all took place before 8:00 am. Later this morning the Knysna elders phoned and indicated that they were driving to George and got a flat but their wrench doesn't fit the lug nuts. I had them call AIG tow truck to assist. The Zone Leaders (Elder Stevens) was particularly helpful in taking responsibility for picking up all the bad spare tires and taking them in to the shop for replacement or repair. That was really kind of him to do that, particul...
Read more