Cape Town Mission Field 

 2 August 2019
  Day 600
Friday


600 days on mission!
We picked up Elder Khoza at 8:30 and took him to the airport. He's from New Castle, which is just north of Durban on the East Cape. The zone leaders came in and dropped off some items from the Fish Hoek boarding. We worked on office items most of the day, including updating the spreadsheet that shows where all the elders are located and their boarding's they stay at and the cars they drive. Elder Courtright also removed the reverse osmosis system from under the kitchen sink because the storage tank sprung a leak and he's been wanting to get rid of it anyway since the filters haven't been changed since we've been here and there's no one that we can find that maintains these type of filters and systems. We spoke with the president for a while and Elder Courtright called the states to set up our SAM's credit card to use here so we can begin booking flights and hotels for our departing trip in November. We left early and got home around 7:00 pm.
Saying good-bye to Elder Khoza

I had a really good look at Elder Day in the office today and all of a sudden it struck me how much he looks like Buddy Holly. I asked if he had every been compared to him and he had no idea who Buddy Holly was. So I printed out a picture of him and showed it to him. He was surprised himself at the resemblance.

Sister Courtright with our new Assistant Buddy Holly, I mean, Elder Day

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
Cape Town Mission Field       24 December 2018    Day 380 Monday Welcome Christmas Eve! We were up around 6:00 AM to cook the calamari and haul all the food to the office and get it setup for the open house. It was a hectic morning but with the help of our dear friend, The Lord, we were able to pull it all together. Sister Hamilton worked on the rolls and some cookies she made up beforehand. She also supplied a ham and a 7 layer bean dip. It was a welcomed treat for all the elders. They were very grateful for all the wonderful food and were excited to receive their packages from Sister Courtright that she has been holding for them. The assistants came back after their soccer game and helped with some kitchen cleanup. We finally left around 6:00 PM and spent the evening vegging out. It was a good day!
Read more
Image
Cape Town Mission Field       21 June 2018     Day 194 Thursday Today Sister Courtright had Neil Slater stop in with his boys to do some facility changes. They moved some shelves, supported some other shelves, added a Masonite board for her transfer board, and sealed a leak in the roof. She keeps them busy. Elder Courtright submitted an incident report to the Church headquarters. This is done for any injury, accident, assault, threat, or violent act. Elder Lane was stopped by a man with a knife last Saturday and he emptied his pockets and the man took a R50 note then told him not to say anything then left. We are sure grateful that nothing serious happened to Elder Lane. After all, he's been through quite enough. (Early on in his mission experience he was stabbed in the back by someone attempting to take their car. He has an issue with knives, I think.)
Read more
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