Well, this thing drives me crazy as when we post a picture, the one we want won't come up, but since we love the rest of our family's blogs maybe it is time for us to get active again. We are loving our mission but were so sad to leave the Ladysmith-Ezakheni area as we knew everyone and loved and were loved. Now we are just trying to figure out the layout of Madadeni which is no easy assignment. We loved having Joyce and Dan here for a week, and exposing them to Africa in so many different ways. They experienced the beauty, the wild life, and best of all the people, especially the African peoplel. It was a quick week and difficult to see them go, but it just means that we are down to our last 4 1/2 months which will go quickly. We soon, in a couple of week s will be the most senior of the sr. missionaries. We have learned that not only can we handle the 24/7 together thing, but for most of the time we really enjoy it. We have learned much more depth about the church, faith, and our relationship with our Heavenly Father. And also at this time of the year, it is hard to feel much Christmas when it is 90 degrees and 90 percent humidity. We do miss our children, especially when we see their blogs and how beautiful each and every one of them are.

We continue with our adventure here in Africa, and manage to keep busy, and love it when we hear from anyone, kids, grandkids, and friends hint hint. The thing I worry about is that many of the things that held our attention at first have become just normal for us and we don't see them anymore as being different or colorful. We love working with the people and seeing how great their spirits really are. Looking back time has flown, looking forward it seems that nine more months is a long time.

Some pictures of Africa and the Uffens

Here are a bunch more pictures of Marilyn's seminary class, us and Kudaquash, the Madonsela family out in Matawanskop, a load on the head, and the donkey cart

Here is a picture of Marilyn and the kids flocking around her out in Ezakheni

After eating impala for the first time (it was really good, and I'm not for killing animals, it was time for Marilyn to lose her sunglasses

Swaziland, a kingdom boardered by SA and Mozanbique, beautiful place with lots of great places to visit. We were there for a mission couples conference, and believe it or not we really did work, created many training manuels, and power point training presentations for all positions and parts of a branch. These are just some of the sights we were able to see and enjoy in the extra day we took in going up early.

Mkhaya game reserve, Swaziland

These really are wild, and beautiful, they even mistook me for one of them and invited me into the tribe (herd).