May 30, 2012

We were able to meet up with Sister Dell and give her the microwave.  She was so grateful.  She wanted to give President a hug, but knew she couldn’t, so I got a great big hug and we both got a big thank you. 

In the afternoon, Sister Dell met me at Pick’nPay (one of the local grocery stores) to help me become more acquainted with the products in South Africa so I can better learn how to cook here.  Most of the products I use in my cooking they don’t have here, like stovetop stuffing, brown sugar as we know it, swiss cheese and black beans, etc.

We meet in the Mgadi home for seminary once a week. They have a larger home centrally located in the township and are willing to let us hold seminary there. This evening we were to show the second half of “The Ten Commandments”. The kids saw the first half of it the night we arrived in Port Alfred.  We went to the Mgadi families’ home and waited for the students to show up but no one came. After 35 minutes we decided to just make a movie night out of it and watched “The Other Side of Heaven” with the Mgadi family and enjoyed eating all the popcorn brought for the students. We will try again next Wednesday and see if we can get through the second half or just have another movie night with the Mgadi family. I’m going to bring some really good eats so either way we will have a good time.