Tuesday, September 3, 2013

September 3, 2013 Driving is always an adventure in South Africa

Today we spent the morning preparing for seminary (me) and Rick did some clean-up work and organizing.  After lunch, we made several visits.  First, we stopped at the church to get the rest of the edible vegetables from the garden to take to the a family in the branch.  I also had 2 packages of  yarn or wool as they call it from which we made the lacy scarves last year.  I had big plans, but no time to make them, so I gave it to Sister Tunye and her daughter Magret.  They both loved making the scarves.  We first stopped at the Nteyi’s, then, Ntombiyakhe’s to see how her babies skin was doing.  She was scratching it a lot on Sunday had to be taken home early from church.  We determined she should be taken to the doctor.  I made the appointment for Friday morning.  She seemed quite grateful.  She has worried about it.  She could take her to a clinic in the township, but they really don’t get good medical help.  We then stopped by the Tunye’s and Naydeen, who is a nonmember, but had investigated the church.  She just had a baby and we wanted to see how she was doing.  Next was a stop at Vivian Princes’ to see if he was home, then to see Sibongiseni Ngcibi, then Sister Dell before we had to be at the church by 5pm.  Rick had a training meeting with the branch membership clerk, Vuysile Matshotyana.  After our meeting, as we were taking him home, we heard what sounded like a rock hit the glass somewhere on the car.  It was like we were shot at.  As we were driving in the township, the drivers side window just shattered.  Either someone threw a big rock at us or the previous rock hit weakened the glass and by driving over the crummy roads, the glass just shattered.  Either way, it was a little unnerving.  After we dropped Vuysile off, we went on to visit Daphne Young.  We usually read scriptures with her, but we just visited and left a short message.  Her boyfriend taped up the window so it wouldn’t shatter all over Rick if it finally did break out.  


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