Nearly every week I'm reviewing LDS humanitarian contracts. It's beyond impressive what the Church is doing in the African Southeast Area. This week across my desk came two different contracts for the drilling of 19 boreholes (water holes) in a small country in central Africa.  Water is a very precious commodity in Africa but getting it into the rural villages has proven difficult for African governments.

The Church will start drilling these 19 boreholes in the next couple of months. What I get to see is only a small portion of the many humanitarian projects started by the Church in Africa.

Also this past week, the Area Public Affairs group hosted the Minister of Interior from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sister Naylor on left, Mom shaking hands with the Minister and Sean Donelly the Area Public Affairs Director on the right.

Mom was involved setting up meetings, tours, luncheons and dinners. The Church has proposed to the DRC that it be allowed to micro-film the DRC archives. The Church will get a copy of the birth, marriage and death records and the DRC will likewise get a digitized copy. The Minister of Interior, in gray suit, promised to recommend that the Church be allowed into the archives. Hopefully, the digitization of the records will be completed before the DRC LDS temple is built.

Our friends, Lolly Maritz, CC Lundgren and Reeve Niel were playing a golf tournament within walking distance of our flat this past Thursday and Friday. The Houghton Country Club was the site of the tournament and this photo is looking down the fairway of the 18th hole. On the left is Lolly Mariz. She would hit her next shot just 4 feet past the hole. It was very impressive. 

Mom and Lolly with their zebra shirts and a matching friend.

Lolly, Reeve and CC.

We enjoyed a wonderful lunch after the round of golf. Elder Bob Rose and his wife Connie joined us. Elder Rose is a former attorney who, along with his wife, is serving their 3rd senior mission for the Church. They previously served in China and the Marshall Islands.

Mom with some of her Primary children this past Sunday. 

This is a shot of one of our favorite restaurants in Johannesburg. Tortellini del Oro, is a slice of heaven, or at least make that a slice of Italy. The pasta, ravioli and tortellini are all homemade. We may be in Johannesburg,South Africa, but once a week we take a trip to Italy.