Dear Richard
You would not BELIEVE the
weather we are having! Winter has truly hit us, and SO different to what you’ll
be experiencing! The rain started on Friday, and has been going on pretty
constantly, and there isn’t a clear end in sight! But I do love living in Cape
Town in pretty much all weather, so it’s all good J There
has also been a lot of hail, and after church the kids enjoyed playing in the
“snow” where the hail had accumulated at the bottom of the slope at the back of
the chapel.
My students wrote their test
on Tuesday, so I spent Monday answering student queries, and then I’ve spent
the rest of the week on marking, and I’ll spend most of the coming week marking
as well… L
We visited Sis Jean
briefly to take her some muffins and see
her garden. She and her son have got an amazing vegetable garden going. They
have wooden boxes on legs filled with just about every kind of vegetable that
you could want! They are also making these boxes to sell now, and they’ve been
standing on the corner opposite Super Plants and have sold quite a lot already!
Our lesson in Sunday School
today was on temples, and specifically the dedication of the Kirtland temple. I
have always thought that it was strange that the Saints didn’t get to do all of
the ordinances in the Kirtland temple, and they had to wait until Nauvoo. But I
realised during the lesson that before the ordinances could be done there were
some things that had to happen first, and there needed to be a dedicated temple
in place for that. So a week after the Kirtland temple was dedicated the
Saviour appeared to Joseph Smith, and then Moses and Elijah appeared and
restored the keys needed to be able to do sealings and other work. And then the
temple was used for the School of the Prophets, where many revelations were received
that prepared the leaders to be able to perform the ordinances. So all of those
things needed a dedicated temple, and if the saints had stayed in Kirtland for
a few more years they may have begun the full ordinances there… So just an
interesting thought…
Relief Society is doing a
fasting challenge at the moment. We all chose someone that we felt needed to be
fasted for, and every day one of us is fasting, while all of the rest of the
sisters remember that person in our prayers as well. I fasted this week for Sis
Cheryl Ann, and I sent her a message to tell her what we were doing, and she
was really touched! J
It was a really cool experience! And for the past few weeks we have been
remembering a different sister in our prayers throughout the day – it’s been
great to feel closer to the sisters in this way.
So now you can enjoy your
warm winter while we enjoy our freezing cold… What is the winter like in Zim? I
assume much warmer than here!
Have a good week J
Shelly
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