Welcome to South Africa

We are loving our mission in South Africa. So far we haven't made it outside of Joburg (the short name everyone here uses for Johannesburg). All of the mission couples have really helped us to transition into our new environment. We have had a slight problem with getting internet hooked up in our flat  (apartment). We have a very nice sunroom that will be our office but the phone outlet was not working and we couldn't get the internet or phone to work. So after a few days of waiting for the engineer to come look at it I began to wonder if there was another outlet in the flat. I found another outlet and quickly hooked up the internet, home phone, and vonage phone. I was feeling quite proud of myself and when Bruce discovered we had internet he sat down and began checking his emails and paying the bills. I made a quick phone call to my mother and then our children and then decided to do some ironing. Well, that wasn't such a good idea because I guess I blew a fuse. Bruce tried to flip the circuit breakers but had no luck. So we went to bed at 9:30 pm and decided to deal with it in the morning. I went for a walk for about 45 minutes at 6:30 this morning with 3 other female missionaries and one of them said she would send her husband over. So before we left for the office today we got the circuit breaker working and a lesson on how to flip the breaker if that happens again. It is so nice to have so many nice people living close by to help us out. When we got to the office we got good news that  the Engineer  is heading over to our flat today to see what he can do about getting the phone and internet working in our home office. I took myself on another tour of the Area Office Building where our permanent office is this morning and one of the Sister Missionaries invited me to a women's lunch/discussion group today. Later today we get our brand new car and will have a driving lesson. (Bruce would prefer a used car). Which sounds good to me. The couple that traveled from Utah with us to do Humanitarian Work here had their driving lesson yesterday and the Elder must have been driving too close to the left hand side of the road and had a little mishap with a tire hitting an embankment. YIKES!! Praying for safety on the road today.

I noticed I needed to translate a few things from my last post.

FHE is short for Family Home Evening
The morning devotional is only on Mondays not everyday