Interesting sights

Ingenuity at its best? In Port Durnford, this is the chapel - at least for now! It is a place that the local members can call home! So it is not a fancy brick built chapel like you get in Utah, but it is what they use as a chapel in the outer reaches of Darkness they regularly have some 50 - 60 members attending. In Polewane (Northern Province between Johannesburg and Zimbabwe) they have a fancy brick built chapel where - if they are lucky - 30 members attend each week! That is part of why I love the members here! They are faithful in the face of meeting in a wooden shack like this! In Sandton, the members are inactive if they dont have this months new BMW to arrive at church in!

So the roads are not great! This photo was taken on one of the better stretches of road. I did blog before where the Roads Department had wasted huge amounts in installing speed humps - tar ones - then a week later (literally) they dug one of these humps out leaving what is called in SA, a donga, that they had to retar! Then they leave roads like this to deteriorate. What is wrong with the government when they go all out to show the world that we are a First World country but ignore some places like this! Sure they have Gautrain between Johannesburg and Pretoria, but in the metropolis there, they dont have (third world) roads like this!

The great news for the members at Port Durnford is that a proper portable chapel - same as they have at Esikhawini - is on it's way and apparently has arrived in Cape Town.

In both Ngwelezane and Nseleni, they use the room attached to the town library! At Nseleni, the library is on the same lot as is the Fire Station. Is that what they call "multi tasking?"

When we were a part of the Durban SA Stake, I used often to get the impression that in Richards Bay, we were on the edge of Outer Darkness! This was because the Tugela River - the border between Natal and Zululand - was treated by the Stake as the edge of their influence! We live north of the Tugela, and therefore effectively inhabited Outer Darkness! I am so glad that we went from the Durban Stake to the Durban Mission. We have come in from the cold - a bit! Is this evidence of "Global Warming"? If it is, the human race has nothing to worry about! I still have a theory that it is Satans influence to get Man to think he is powerful enough to change Heavenly Fathers plans, and to panic that we are destroying what was 'Evolved" for us - as if God had nothing to do with it!