Monday, February 18th, we started the day by saying good-bye to Elder Clawson.  The Reeses took him to Johannesburg, where he has been transferred because an elder there went home. Elder HLatshwayo also left Ezulwini on Monday to serve down in Nhlangano with  Elder Lee in Elder Clawson's place. We will miss Elder Clawson and will miss Elder  Hlatshwayo in our branch! 

We had our last zone activity Monday  at noon in Manzini.  The zone leaders planned a braai and we played a special LDS edition of Family Feud online and on the big screen, complete with music and sound effects!  We were all assigned to be on two teams (splitting each companionship including Elder Wold and I.)   Our team A WON!! Ü It was really  fun! We also got gifts from each district or companionship.  They included sweet, clever written notes and chocolate mints from Denmark (Elder Nielsen), a Swazi dish specially personalized for us, a drawing by Elder Hlatshwayo, a kangaroo pouch scripture cover from  Australia (Elder Rea) and  Elder Reneer wrote a song and made a video ("bobandjoyce.com") with our "Nhlangawini" (Nhlangano/Ezulwini) district performing it.  Ü 

 

L to R: Elder Reneer, Elder Lee, Elder Hlatshwayo, Elder Clawson, and Elder Jolley.

Elder  Reneer and Elder Jolley, sad about losing their "son" to Nhlangano,

posed with our little neighbor boy in #6, who came over to see us.

Elder Lee in his Panguitch Bobcats shirt! 

Our FINAL mission board on the wall of our flat....last transfer until we leave!

Some of our elders cooking their meat on the braai on the cool patio at the Manzini Chapel

(L to R: Elder Lee, Elder Leterme (France), Elder Rea  (Australia), Elder  Van Thiel Berghuys (Cape Town), Elder  Reneer  (Lindon, UT), Elder Earl (Provo, UT), and Elder Jolley (American Fork, UT)

Team A on the right:  Me, Elder Van Thiel Berguijs, Elder  Nielsen, 

Elder Earl, Elder Rea, and Elder Lee. 

Team B  on the left: Elder Wold, Elder Van Thiel Berghuys, Elder Leterme, 

Elder Behunin, and Elder Hlatshwayo

Co-Hosts:  Elder Jolley in the funky suit and Elder Reneer on the computer

(Our prizes for winning were leftover LIGHT THE WOrLD  pamphlets

with candy taped on them....)  Ü  

Our gifts:

Video:  bobandjoyce.com by  Elder Reneer and the district

Kangaroo pouch scripture case from Australia from the Manzini Fairview elders

Cute notes from Mbabane District (and yummy Danish chocolate we ate)

Elder Hlatshwato's drawing of us from the Nhlangano elders

African dish from Manzini Ngwane Park elders with 

W  ork

          O obedience

L ove

        D diligence

and their names engraved on it too.

Jerold and Khadija Chiwandire have a baby BOY, "BRYSON", born on Sunday,  the  17th, while we were in Nhangano!  He came by C-section because he was 9 lbs. 4 oz and Khadija is small!  They came home from the hospital  the next day, on Monday!  So we  took KFC  to the  family for dinner and heart frosted sugar cookies, diapers & wipes, two outfits, a sign "IT'S A BOY" with blue hearts that the kids helped put up on their front door and P.S. BIG HUG candy bars for big brother Ethan 7 and Lilah 12. He is ADORABLE!!!

Sweet  baby Bryson Chiwandire just ONE day  old!! 

Proud daddy, Jerold from Zimbabwe and mom, Khadija is from Tanzania

 TUESDAY

Today is  such a beautiful clear day, I had to snap a few more photos 

of the Ezulwini valley coming down the mountain road from Mbabane this morning.

We went up to get some prints made for some members in our branch and other branches.