OUR BEAUTIFUL BUT SAD FLOWERS

When we arrived at our apartment last Saturday night, we found that our host (Sister Kinghorn) had stocked the kitchen with all sorts of food items to get us started out.  There was cereal and milk, juice, yummy bread, butter, jam, eggs, plums, grapes, bananas and more.  It was really sweet of her.

About Tuesday I (Walt), noticed there was a vase of beautiful fresh flowere right in the middle of our table.  They're some kind of lilly or orchid or something like that.  I hadn't even noticed it before, just assumed it was a centerpiece of fake flowers or something like that.  Anyway on Tuesday I noticed that some petals had fallen from the flowers.  Every morning I would find that more and more petals had fallen.  Then by Friday, I would find whole, complete flowers had fallen.  It seems so sad to me.  The flowers that are left don't look dry or shriveled, they're just as pretty as they were when new.  This photo was taken last night and you might be able to see that more than half of the flowers are gone.  I intend to keep them until the last pretty petal bites the dust.

This morning we attended church again at the Saulsville Ward along with Elder and Sister Lee.  It's 49 kilometers away and takes an hour to get there.  This morning they were having choir practice at 8 am before the start of their 8:30 block.  That means we left by 7 am, and had to get up way before that.
Saulsville is what is known as a Township branch  which means it's out in one of the townships and we are the only white people there.
I can't remember if I told you much about the ward last week or not. We're guessing there might have been 100 people there for Sacrament meeting.  They had Priesthood meeting, (High Priests, Elders and Aaronic Priesthood), Relief Society, Sunday School and then Sacrament meeting.  There were 2 youth speakers first and the young man (about 17) is preparing for a mission.  But he went kind of long.  Then the High Councilor got up and took his full time.  We got  out about 15 minutes late.

On the way back to Johannesburg, I drove the car for the first time when we went home.  It seemed pretty easy driving on the left side.  It was mostly freeway driving though, and there wasn't much traffic Sunday at 1 pm.