This past week, we had our zone leaders take a couple of pictures of us in Swazi traditional dress and also in our African dress and shirt,  for our Christmas card.  Here are the ones we are using on our card.... Ü 

I got this picture below of our crazy zone leaders, Elder Reneer and Elder Sinclair, 

after they finished taking our picture for our Christmas card ... Ü 

Below are are few photos from the past week...

Three of our cute Ezulwini YSAs pose for a photo after church last Sunday.

Left to right:  Amanda Simelane, YSA rep, Siphiwe Shongwe, YW President, and Nkosingphile ("Cassie")  Mahlanga, Counselor in the YW Presidency.

One of the things we helped with for Apollo Msibi's funeral was taking a bag of maize, which was grown, dried, and donated by the Ngubeni family, to the mill to be ground into mealie meal to make pap. It was interesting to see just how that is done!  

Every community has its own mill.

These are the only pumpkins we have seen here. They are grayish in color.  We have not bought one so I'm not sure of the color inside?  We bought sweet potatoes last year for candied yams and they were red on the outside, but white inside! 

I took this photo of our Ezulwini Branch chapel, when we stopped there yesterday, 

to show that we now have some grass in front, new signs up, and it's newly painted! 

Here is another pretty sunset, taken one night as we drove to the Msisbis' home.

We have received approval from our mission president to go ahead with our flight plans to return home!  Our release date is February 28th, so that will be the day we drive from Swaziland to Johannesburg.  We will fly out of Joburg on Friday, the 1st of March, to Addis Ababa and stay in Ethiopia Saturday and Sunday. Then we will fly from there on Monday evening, March 4th, arriving in Phoenix, AZ on Tuesday evening, March 5th!!  We are SO excited!  Time is flying by TOO fast though!  We can't believe we have been here almost 15 months!! We LOVE beautiful Swaziland and the members here!!