Trip to East London with Elder Ellingson and Elder Ramat

We drove down to East London with Elders Ellingson and Ramat.  Elder Ellingson is being transferred to an area in East London.  We were able to drop him off at his new flat and introduce him to the new missionaries he will be working with.  We met up with Elder and Sister Boyce who had just finished a flat inspection. Elder Ramat is coming along so he can pick up a new missionary who is flying into East London from Cape Town.

After we dropped off Elder Ellingson we had several hours before Elder Pennington’s plane arrives.  We went to purchase some items that we could only get in East London and then we stopped at the Beach so Sister Thomas could go down to the ocean to reset her altimeter.  She went right down to “sea level” to make sure is was set at this level.  Then we stopped and had lunch at a sea food restaurant.  Elder Ramat’s face turned a shade of green when he learned that when he order a Calamari Steak he was in reality eating squid.  That was pure joy to watch unfold.  We had to search online to show him a picture of a squid.  In missionary fashion he took courage and finished the meal and in the end liked what it tasted like.