Cape Town Mission Field 

8 November 2019
  Day 698
Friday
Count Up => +12

After eating some delicious bran muffins that Sister Zenger made we went for a walk up Blaser Mountain, so named by Elder Hodges when he went up the mountain with Elder Blaser who had been working hard to loose some weight in order to make the climb. After a 40 pound loss by Elder Blaser they went to the top!
We then cleaned up a bit and went into the Mlungisi township and found a shop and got some Kota sandwiches. They were a wonderful meat sandwich between two slices of thick homemade bread. As we were waiting there were two ladies walking down the street who started having words with each other. Pretty soon it escalated into a fight. Elder Zenger walked over and began to insert himself between the two ladies and another lady came over to help calm down one of them. She took her away and things settled down even though they continued to yell at each other for quite awhile as they were walking away. Apparently the scuffle was over an unpaid debt.
We then went into the game reserve near the Zenger's boarding and drove around for about an hour and a half. We saw a large herd of Giraffe, some Wildebeest, a Secretary Bird, and even a large Rhino.
We came home and had a wonderful dinner and played a card game called Wizard. It was a great day and the Zenger's were wonderful hosts.



Sister Zenger practicing her Springbok imitation





Secretary bird, a real snake killer

Zebra

Overlooking the Rhino from the lookout point (in the background)

Large male Rhino with horn removed to discourage poaching




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