Fri.
It rained hard most of the night and then off and on all day today. I am so grateful that Alan was able to get those wheelchairs up off the floor. Now I don’t have to worry about them so much when it rains like this.
I worked on the water project again today. I finished the rough draft, but every time I reread it I change something. I could go crazy! I sent the draft to Reed Mellor, our water specialist in SLC just to see what he thinks. Hopefully he will send it back by Monday and we can get it off to the Area Authorities. We are praying all will go smoothly and this will be approved. We were hoping to leave the office a little early today but the hospital called and said that they needed to come and get some wheelchairs. I told them we were leaving at 11:30 and they said they would be here by 10:45. AT 12:15 we left. Oh these Tongans! Alan called them three times but no one would answer. They will just have to pick them up on Monday.
We went with the Zone Leaders of the Helamani Zone today. I was inspecting the MQ’s and Alan was changing the water filters. I really like these Zone Leaders and we had a good time with them. We stopped at a little store out on the east side of the island to buy some cinnamon bread but they were all out. We found some tuna fish there though and they had ice cream cones! We bought one for each of the elders, Alan had a strawberry one and I had an apricot ice cream cone. It was delicious!! I loved my first ice cream cone in Tonga.
While we were out it started to rain again. I told the elders I was to old to be out climbing over things in the mud. (They have pig fences at every MQ that you have to get over in order to get in.) Elder T. my sweet Tongan missionary said, “You’re not old Sister Webb. Women age like fine wine. Men age like old milk!” I love that kid. He is from the Salt Lake area so we can still connect with him when we get home. I’m so glad. He is an excellent missionary.
The missionaries knew that we were coming today and most of them did a good job of cleaning their MQ’s. Some were GREAT but a couple were BAD. At least we know there is hope. Most of them are at least trying. We ordered a deep cleaning for a couple of them. They had a real mold and mildew problem. It is starting to give some of the elders allergies.
