Last Monday, I drove to Bloemfontein, South Africa with Shawn Boshoff. Shawn is a South African lawyer and also the Pretoria, South Africa Stake President for the LDS Church. He and I had legal matters to attend to in Lesotho early on Tuesday morning. South of Johannesburg the country becomes farm land with gentle rolling hills. 

A picture of downtown Bloemfontein, South Africa. Presently a city of nearly 500,000 people. It is strongly Afrikaans.  It is the judicial capital of South Africa. You may remember that South Africa has three governmental capitals. Pretoria is administrative capital, Cape Town the legislative and Bloemfontein the judicial capital. It is in Bloemfontein that the Supreme Court of South Africa sits.

It was over 90 degrees F. thus many were covering up with umbrellas.

Many South Africans have small farms from which they harvest various crops and then sell their produce on the streets.

Shawn attended high school in Bloemfontein at Grey College. He gave me a tour of the campus.

We watched some middle school races and then he taught me the finer points of cricket.

Shawn came to Grey College on a cricket scholarship. There are 2 batsmen on the field at the same time and eleven opposing players trying either to catch the ball, or knock over the wickets.

A picture of the Bloemfontein Stake Center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Early Tuesday morning we headed into the hills of the Kingdom of Lesotho.

Border crossing at Maseru, Lesotho.  The Kingdom of Lesotho is landlocked with a population of 

2 million people. Technically, the country is a constitutional monarchy. 

City of Maseru the capital of Lesotho in background.

Maseru, Lesotho.

There is lots of unemployment and it is estimated that 1/3 of the population is HIV positive.

An LDS church in Maseru.

Presently, in Africa the LDS Church is using "speed space" for many of its chapels. The membership of the Church is growing so fast in Africa that it has become necessary to erect temporary structures for meeting houses.

Shawn and I looking for a "new" ride home. I think that rusted hulk behind us was a 1943 Hudson.

Lots of growing sunflowers along the way back to Johannesburg.