Meeting the Mission President

Had our interview this morning. The leather gloves were a big hit.   Went really well, we are assigned to Port Elizabeth, with the assignment to work in the Mother Well Branch.  It is exactly what we have wanted.  Mother Well has just moved from a Twig ( Group ) to a branch just 3 months ago.  Church needs lots of help.  The Stake Pres. Wants to meet with us as soon as we get there.  We will have a 3 bedroom home with a 1 car garage.  We will have 2-3 apartments to inspect and 2-3 cars to do a 12 point check list on as well ( no, I am not the car czar ).  We will leave Mon. Morning and drive part way, stay in a B&B and then go the rest of the way and be at a zone conference Tues. at 1 o'clock  with our new zone and Pres. Wood.  We just got back from the water front having a nice dinner with the Pres. and his wife.  It was a nice meal and peaceful setting .

Table Mountain

Wow, we thought we would never get to the top.  Look at the trails below.

Table Mountain

Just kidding, we rode the Tram.

Bed and breakfast in Cape Town. Finally made it. Problems atJohannesburg Airport, finally got fed up and bought new tickets fromthere to Cape Town.

We'll we got our car today, borrowed a GPS and went 2 places, one of which was home from the Mission Office during rush hour.  It is weird, and it is a stick shift to boot.  We think we are going to be in Port Elizabeth.  We went to a bank and I seen the address on the paper work.  There are 2 homes open in that town.  The Pres. Could always change it but I would bet that that is it.  It would be a 2 day trip.  It is 410 miles and they will not let us do it in 1 day.  Beautiful city right in the coast.  Food here is really reasonable, my dinner today was 78 rand.  I had 2 pork chops, potatoes and gravy, veggies, big portions.  In US dollars $7.80.  It is 10 rand to 1 dollar, so we just take the rand amount and move the decimal to the left 1 number and you have the US amount.   It was at a nice golf club house close to mission office.  We are reading all about the drive from here to our new area, wow this is like a vacation.  

London airport

Kaye Dawn in action, she really is not afraid.

Best day at MTC

These are the real tickets for our Mission