Our travels have not been as far in the last 5 weeks or so. We have been to a half way point in the direction of the capital city of Lilongwe (Ntcheu -pronounced Nachao) to deliver a new missionary arriving from the MTC in South Africa. We never did get an answer as to why he came here, when there are flights direct to Lilongwe. The Mission President and Sister Padovich came to visit in early December, along with the Pretes from Lilongwe. Their visit lasted over parts of 5 days.
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| Meeting Elder Wandera at the Airport |
While our visitors were here, we took a drive through the tea plantations, just outside of the city and on to Mulanje Mountain, which rises above 10,000 feet and mostly is a vertical shaped rock. We had a very nice lunch at a lodge a few hundred feet up the mountain. The tea plantations were being harvested, by individual workers with "shear" like clippers attached to bags. There are huge fields of the tea plantations.
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| Malawi Tea Plantation workers near Blantyre. |
We also traveled to the area of Liwonde one Sunday to visit the small group that meets there. Most of the members come from villages and one family walks 2 hours each way to get there. The Church has rented a house to meet in instead of the school, which has no water, no electricity and is shared by some "rock music" church groups going on at the same time. It is two hour plus drive each way (riding) for us too. Many police checks along the way - they like and use a lot of Radar. We've been o.k. so far.
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| New Years Eve in Blantyre, Malawi |
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| Christmas Eve at Shields flat with missionaries |
Happy New Year to all of our family and friends who sometimes follow our blog. We love you all. May you be guided and protected in all you do in 2013. May you know from whence your blessings come and always acknowledge them.
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