Category: Travel Experiences

A Hundredth Part

Post author By Debbie
Post date September 24, 2024
Categories In Quotes, Spiritual Experiences, Temple Experiences, The Amazing People Along the Way, Travel Experiences, Visits from Home

The day in, day out happenings of this mission keep us so engaged that it is unfortunately not possible to write about everything we’d like to in this blog. There are many unforgettable people, events, miracles, learnings that will remain forever recorded on the fleshy tablets of our hearts. …nor even in the space of […]

Getting to the Point

Post author By Debbie
Post date May 6, 2024
Categories In Interesting Facts About Africa, Love from Home, Travel Experiences, Visits from Home

Just to be clear, and not confuse visitors to our blog, yes, we really are on a mission. The entire temple staff and workers were locked out for two weeks for maintenance so what are us missionaries to do?!?! No trip to the Cape is complete without a trip down the peninsula. As you can […]

Ushaka

Post author By Debbie
Post date April 15, 2024
Categories In Interesting Facts About Africa, Travel Experiences, Umhlanga. place of reeds, Visits from Home

We’ve always wanted to live near the beach and Umhlanga is a dream come true! One thing however—there are several varieties of sharks in the Indian Ocean!! A shark can swim easily in knee-deep water. There used to be fatal shark attacks every year in this area. Solution: Sharks Board. Nets and drum lines are […]

First Visit from Home

Post author By Debbie
Post date April 7, 2024
Categories In Love from Home, Temple Experiences, Travel Experiences, Umhlanga. place of reeds, Visits from Home

The temple was fully closed for the last two weeks of March so this was a great time for Kirk and Sue to come visit! We had time off to take them around to enjoy South Africa! A day trip to Tala and PheZulu Village— just an hour away from our apartment—Incredible wildlife!! Sadly at […]

Heading to St Lucia

Post author By Debbie
Post date March 12, 2024
Categories In First Wave Temple Missionaries, Interesting Facts About Africa, Travel Experiences

Our first excursion outside of Durban, the LoveLayNels headed off to explore South Africa. Two and a half hours drive north along the Indian Ocean from Umhlanga is St Lucia, a smaill , safe surf town on the Eastern coast of Kwa Zulu Natal. Hluhluwe is the oldest of South Africa’s game parks and we […]

The Ugly 5

Post author By Debbie
Post date February 26, 2024
Categories In Interesting Facts About Africa, Languages in South Africa, Travel Experiences

Humor is very much a part of South African culture. While we like to think of these animals as not ugly, but more ‘cabbage patch”, the Ugly 5 is a thing: hyena, vulture, wildebeest, wart hog and marabou stork. We only saw 2 of the 5 on this game drive. A grand daddy wart hog […]

The Great Safari

Post author By Debbie
Post date February 26, 2024
Categories In Interesting Facts About Africa, Languages in South Africa, Travel Experiences

Cheetah sighting-There are two cheetahs in this picture, just chilling in the shade and not worried about us at all. We got lucky to see them. The success of every safari ride depends on your safari driver. Jabuloni was a good one! He said we got very lucky today seeing 8 white rhino, 2 cheetahs […]

Bucket list ✅

Post author By Debbie
Post date February 26, 2024
Categories In Interesting Facts About Africa, Travel Experiences

Really it was 2 bucket list items, 1) get Doug to Africa on a safari and 2) see a rhino, my last of the Big 5 to marvel over on safari. Something about seeing an animal in the wild that takes my breath away! Some people say: oh, I’ve seen a leopard, elephant, lion at […]