They are doing a presentation at the high school where Masisi Dlamini teaches
and will be giving out 75 Days for Girls kits.
(Check out the name of the street that the Days For Girls office is on!)
They are giving outside toys to two pre-schools with kids age 3-6. (One is for orphan children ). So there are two boxes like this full of balls, jump ropes, and bubble wands
and more hula hoops.
I made 24 balls of play dough this morning that we will be taking to
the kids in the orphan pre-school at the Care Point in Motjane.
We went to our favorite stationer store and picked up some chalk, pencils, paper and a few books (on the right) for that little orphan pre-school that has NOTHING. Bob asked the owner if there might be a discount for what we were getting. She not only gave us a 20% discount, but also donated everything on the left and in the middle!! It was SO sweet of her!
(Our district RS President works there and we are in there a lot!)
We went to the King Mswati International Airport last night
and packed up Elder Andile Mbuli coming from his mission in Uganda!
I thought these were interesting trees out in front... I love these cute little bird nests.
What a great young man! He is from our Ezulwini Branch and we have visited his family, who are all less-active right now, several times, but we had not met him yet. We really got to know him driving 2 hours with him in our truck. He is praying he can help his family have the desire to come back to church. They live FAR up on the mountain in Elangeni and that is very far from the church, when they have no transportation
and not much money to take a kombi...
He met his VERY HAPPY mom, Rose Mbuli, at the Manzini chapel ,where he was released before we took him home to Ezulwini. It is against mission rules for us to give rides to members. We got permission from Pres Leavitt to pick HIM up but our branch president, Pres. Manqoba Shongwe and his wife transported his mom in their small car. They didn't make it clear out to the airport in time because he got off work late.... so they met us there.
Ceducizi Lukhele, who served with him in Uganda waited at the Manzini chapel for 4 hours to get to see him! (We saw him when I was giving Zwakele, also a returned missionary from Uganda, a piano lesson just before we left for the airport.)
We had a beautiful sunset as we drove to Ezulwini!!
His nieces and nephews were SO happy to see him!
And so was his sister who had another one while he was gone!
This sweet Primary President in Mbabane Branch, Sister Ntombi Malaza, passed away (due to severe asthma and heart problems) at just 43 years old. Her funeral was Saturday, October 6th in Mbabane. So sad.... I LOVED to watch her with the children whenever I visited her branch Primary. She was also a primary school teacher.
On Saturday after the funeral, we met our Mbabane Branch elders at Nando's for a "farewell" lunch for Elder Chikoore above. He finished his mission and flew home on Tuesday, along with Elder Treasure and Elder Cox in Johannesburg. All three of them were companions to Elder Smith (who goes home in just 19 days) and they all served as zone leaders here with us in Ezulwini!! They are all great young men! We will miss them!
Elder East, Elder Chikoore companion from Wales, told us that Nando's is BIG in Wales!?!? Who knew? (It wasn't there 45 years ago when Bob served there.) They had not eaten there, because it is a little more expensive than an elder's food budget allows.
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Last Sunday no one was there to do Primary, so I taught it 2nd hour. Third hour I needed to be in RS with two investigators and a member returning to church after over a year!
No one was there to teach YW either, so I gave the four YW my phone to teach sharing time and singing time. These (and about a dozen other photos) were on my phone after church....
On Wednesday, we had District Leader Council here in our flat. (I made lemon bars for the 10 elders and Pres. Sithole, who came to the meeting too.) Elder East is a district leader, so his new companion, who arrived Tuesday night, Elder Van Thiel Berguys, came to the meeting too, and we got to meet him and I took his picture to go up on our wall!
He is a nice young man from Port Elizabeth, in the Cape Town Mission.
He is right out of the Joburg MTC!
I just can't help myself!! I am SO in love with the flowering bushes and trees here EVERY season of the year in Swaziland!! Purple jacarandas are EVERYWHERE!!
These were taken from the car as we were driving in Manzini the other day. Ü
These teeny tiny flowers were on a bush by Nosimilo's mom's home.
We often see this guy walking near our flat, pushing his cool little truck, made from scraps of metal and wires, down the road. I never take pictures when the person is watching me, so I miss a LOT of good photos! But we were stopped at the trash bins and I took this from the side rearview mirror out of my window as I sat in our truck....
This is a very common sight, but a little scary tonight in the pitch black night, going up a steep hill in our truck, on a little dirt road! Suddenly there were three bulls in the road in front of us! We had come up the hill from Gertrude's, our RS President's flat, where I taught her a Temple Preparation lesson. She is going to the temple for her first time to receive her endowment on October 26th! Thuli Fakudze's family and Djabulile's family also live in the same small building and Elder Wold taught Djabulile with the zone leaders outside on the porch at the same time.
Friday night we went back to Gertrude's to teach another Temple Preparation lesson and saw Thuli in the dark in a little unfinished building, making pap! She said it takes about an hour and a half! Sinayo, her daughter was helping and I had to get a picture!
Sinayo was proud of the crown and bracelet she made from snack size chips packages! Ü
Yippee!! PIZZA INN just opened in Ezulwini at Corner Plaza, right across the street from the driveway to our flat!! It's so nice, when we have been gone all day and into the night, to be able to stop and grab something quickly for our dinner!!
We see a lot of different fruits here. I had not had a kumquat since I was a little girl and ate some off of my Aunt Delores' kumquat tree in her backyard in Mountain View, California!
I just had to buy these. They are good, but a little too sour!
The outside is sweet but the inside in sour!
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