Hello, friends and family,

                        We hope your all doing well.  Here are some of our pictures of

                 the last week or so.

                                      This is a picture from monday night the 22nd of Feb.  We

                                   had a family home evening with these two sisters from the

                                   branch.  Their mother went in her bedroom because she isn't

                                   active.  Xolani, the young man in the brown jacket is about

                                   done with his papers to turn in for a mission.  He gave the

                                   lesson from a conf. talk called "All Is Well" about the pio-

                                   neers.  He did a great job and was explaining to the sisters

                                   that the pioneers had to go so far and "they had to go by feet".

                                   That was his way of saying they walked. :)    

                                 Our new Elders are Elder Slade and Elder Heninger.  We 

                                brought Kentucky Fried Chicken for dinner and I can tell

                                you that the side dishes did not look like the ones at home.

                                I was full so didn't have to eat any of it. :)  These two girls

                                take turns leading the music for Sacrament each week and

                                have pretty voices.

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                      Oops,  Grandpa is gone and I am trying to update this by myself and 

                    thought I was putting in a picture from our trip to Jeffery's Bay last friday.

                    This picture was taken when we had been in South Africa for two days.

                     We are in Cape Town and that flat mountain behind us is a famous moun-

                     tain called "Table Mountain"  It usually has some clouds sitting on top of 

                     it and they call them its tablecloth.  The picture above this one is the one 

                     of Grandpa on the deck of our hotel room at Jeffery's Bay.  It is very pretty

                     there.  The room on the beach there is about $125.00, everything over

                      here is much cheaper than at home .

     These kids are beautiful and amazing!!!  They get so excited when they see our car

  

coming to the
little park by their houses.  Last week after we took the first group of pictures back to
them we had them in envelopes with pass along cards and the next day one of their Dads
texted for the free video and the Elders took it to him and asked him how he heard
about the video.  He told them some lady was at the park taking pictures of the kids.
When his son came home with the picture he saw the card and texted about the video.
yea yea yea ,  They are now teaching their family and we are taking lots more pic-
tures.

     The other picture is Grandpa with Elder Si'ufanua and Elder Mmotong the night be-

fore they were transferred.  Elder Mmotong requested chicken fajitas again.  They had

both never had them before I made them the first time for them.  He asked for the recipe.

We feel blessed to have gotten to know them.  Elder Si'ufanua and Grandpa had been

having a contest to see who could lose the most weight by transfers and Elder Si'ufanua

won and was very excited .  

    Headed to the Air Port for transfers.  This is our side yard .  We feel blessed.

Most people in our complex don't have much of a yard.  If you look close at the 

wall you can see the broken glass on top and the electric fence.  The unfinished 

house in the background is typical, I am not sure if builders run out of money or

are waiting for a buyer or what.  

                        Here are some rhinos we saw at a animal park we went to in January.

                      There are only these two in the park and we had been driving around 

                       all day seeing lots of other animals but couldn't find them.  Just as we

                       were heading back for the dinner they were sighted heading for this

                        watering hole.   Made our day.   They are huge and always stay to-

                       gether, 

                        I guess this is all for now, thanks for all the love and support.  We love

                        and miss everyone and wish you could be here with us.  We love be-

                        ing full time missionaries.    Love Elder and Sister Smith