Tonga!

Fri.
It was a relatively quiet day today. Most of the students are back in school now so things have really slowed down at the office. We had one village leader come in and ask for help with getting some computers for the students in his village. We had a good visit with him and put him on the list of people wanting computers. When Liahona gets new computers we try to give the old ones out to other schools and villages. We have quite a list of people who need them.
Alan went out this morning looking for mops and brooms. We need to find the best prices for the supplies for the missionaries. Hopefully our credit card will be activated soon. We are running out of a lot of supplies and we don’t have any way of purchasing more. The office couple has to come with us and pay for them with their card.
We had dinner with the Szokas tonight. It’s fun to get together with other couples once in a while and just enjoy a meal and a good visit. We took chocolate chip cookies and ice cream for dessert. For some reason nobody makes cookies but me. I don’t know why because everybody loves them. We stayed until after nine. Elder and Sister Fellows came over after dinner and they stayed just to visit. He is really frustrated with the way the school is handling the shop program here. He has spent $8,000.00 on new equipment and then this week found out that there is not a qualified teacher to teach the class. The teacher is a really nice man, a good member of the church and he has a temple recommend, all requirements to teach at a church school, but he has no experience in teaching shop and he is just not good with his hands. His talents lie elsewhere. Elder Fellows feels like he is banging his head against a wall. He is 78 years old and he didn’t put in for this mission, he was asked to come. He is soooo frustrated! We tried to help him relax a little, but I’m not sure we accomplished much. He hasn’t slept much this week and we are worried about his health, as is his wife. We are praying that things will get straightened out this week.