{"id":1871,"date":"2016-04-28T02:06:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T07:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2016-04-29T04:11:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T09:11:33","slug":"sunday-and-monday-april-24-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, April 24, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some of the keys and fobs used daily.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sunday was a beautiful day.\u00a0 Not too hot and quite pleasant. Larry had not driven in Swaziland yet, but we had been loaned a mission car to drive for the weekend.\u00a0 Driving in the Swazi traffic and driving on the left side of the road, is a bit of a challenge, especially in the beginning. \u00a0 One good thing\u00a0 is that Sunday traffic is not as heavy as it is during the week.<\/p>\n

We planned to go to the Evangelical Bible Church, which we attended all the time we lived here in Swaziland.\u00a0 I should digress a bit and tell you that living in Swaziland comes with a huge bunch of keys. Naturally,\u00a0 we have a key for each door. \u00a0 Each outside door also has a gate which has a padlock. Interior doors and windows are linked to the burglar alarm, so doors and windows need to be closed securely.\u00a0\u00a0 Interior doors also have keys. We also have a gate to our yard and then a gate from our ‘compound’ to the main road.\u00a0 The gate to the main road is opened electronically with a button on the key ring.\u00a0 This is not unusual to have all this security in this part of the world.\u00a0 Some areas, which we would call subdivisions or perhaps gated communities, have a guard who takes your name and license number and notes who you plan to visit.\u00a0 After securing all windows and doors, one must set the alarm by pressing one of the buttons on the key ring.\u00a0 There is a little red light in a window of the house that shows whether or not the house is properly secured\u00a0 and the alarm is set. If the light does not come on, then one has to unlock the door gate, the door,\u00a0 any interior doors, check windows and once again lock everything and try again.<\/p>\n

Sunday morning, we had secured the house and set the alarm, and started off.\u00a0 We arrived at the gate and it would not open for our button, nor for the button with the car keys.\u00a0 So we went back to the house and deactivated the alarm unlocked all the doors and Larry called the only neighbor who was home.\u00a0 He was on his way to church, but came by and programed our button to open the gate. We finally made it to church, but we were a bit late. Later we discovered that our gate key does fit other padlocks to gates that go through a field.\u00a0 We could open those two gates and get out that way if we cannot unlock the main gate.<\/p>\n

Another thing that we need to remember and get used to again, is that the cars also have alarms.\u00a0 After you are in the car and start it, there is a hidden button that needs to be pushed to deactivate the anti-thieft device. If that button is not pushed, the car stops.\u00a0 There is a way to get it started again, but not something one wants to happen in the middle of a busy road.\u00a0 That little hidden button is not always easy to find<\/p>\n

We had a very nice surprise when we arrived at church.\u00a0 The Council for the Evangelical Bible Churches in South Africa and S\"#P1080053EBC\"<\/a>waziland were visiting.\u00a0 One of the pastors on the Council was Pastor Matham, who was the pastor of EBC (Evangelical Bible Church)\u00a0 Manzini when we first arrived in Swaziland.\u00a0 It was such a pleasant surprise to see him once again.\u00a0 After a very enjoyable service.\u00a0 One of the pastors challenged us from Exodus 14, a well known story with new insights. We were also pleasantly surprised to discover that the church was having a pot-luck after the service. We enjoyed curry dishes and other very tasty food and fantastic fellowship and renewing of friendships.\u00a0 Very blessed.<\/p>\n

After church, since we did not know if we would have a vehicle for the rest of the week, we decided to go grocery shopping.\u00a0 We found nearly everything on our list to get us through the week and the prices were, for the most part, quite reasonable.<\/p>\n

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  Sunday was a beautiful day.\u00a0 Not too hot and quite pleasant. Larry had not driven in Swaziland yet, but we had been loaned a mission car to drive for the weekend.\u00a0 Driving in the Swazi traffic and driving on the left side of the road, is a bit of a challenge, especially in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swaziland-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}