March 5

Marcus told me about his flight experience, and it sure sounds like God is watching out for him. That would have be awful to have to wait at the airport only an hour's flight away from home. I'm sure buddy remembers him by now, and I'll bet that he's had a few sleepless nights on the master's assistant's pillow since then.

I can relate to that experience that Mike had. If you remember when we bought the 7 chickens, we tied their feet, threw them into the trunk of the car, and drove back to the flat to slaughter them. I'll probably do that again sometime throughout the rest of my mission.

I think I mentioned last week that we were going to the PMB botanical gardens to have a braai (barbeque). Here's a tree that we found, and I took a picture next to it just after we ate a ton of food, so I look something like the tree.

I'm running out of time, so I won't re-cap the transfer news story to you other than to say that I'm getting transferred to Kimberley in Northern Cape. I'm pretty excited to go there, but the excitement dwindled a bit because of the 9 hour bus ride required to get to Kimberley. I'm not sure how the transfers are going to work other than I'm going to sit  on the bus forever until I get to Kimberley.

The woman who was baptized is doing fine. She is reading the Book of Mormon a lot and she's loving it. She's learning a lot from it, so it's becoming more and more important to her with every verse that she reads. She's about half way through Mosiah, so she's well on her way to finish the Book of Mormon sort of soon. I love you all so much. I'm sure that everyone's thrilled to have marcus back, and I wish everyone the best. I always pray for your happiness and safety.

Elder Steed