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1928
So I remained only with Rama because Schomerus and the congregation could not reach agreement and the latter asked me in 1928 to remain their pastor and I stayed there until the end of June 1942. My dear wife learnt driving from Attorney Wicht and we let Stephans Ralise go because he had started drinking. Since then she has been driving the car and has now travelled almost 80 000 miles. We were in Natal and Elim
a couple of times, once in West-Transvaal, once in Lorenzo Marques, in Vrede and all these years often in Bethanie and Rama etc.
In 1929 we exchanged a Sedan Chev for our open Chevrolet and have now already travelled over 66 000 miles with the
new Chev and it is still in good condition. Thank God, we have not had an accident so far. My dear wife drives carefully and well.
From 1930 until about 1935 there was a great depression
in South Africa. We absolutely could not succeed in selling Vogelfontein and the interest rates rose and it was hard to make a living.
