Mon.
When we got up this morning I washed my pillow. It was cloudy but I had to chance it because it was starting to mildew and stink! We went to prayer meeting at the Service Center and barely made it home before it started to rain. It rained, and rained and rained!!!!! We waited to leave for work because it was so bad but it just got worse. It was by far the worst storm we have had since we got here. They told us March was the month to watch out for and I guess we are about to find out why. Everything flooded. I took pictures because I just couldn’t believe how fast it all happened. It was a torrential downpour! We had
scheduled a visit to a primary school in the village of Vini but we had to change it until tomorrow. Most of the roads were under water and we weren’t about to wade around in that mess. It didn’t stop raining until afternoon and then we still had more short periods of rain. What a day!!When we got into work all of the computers were down. The internet won’t work on a good day, in a storm like that there wasn’t a chance. We caught up on the paperwork we needed to do by hand and then went home. We were in charge of FHE tonight and I needed to make a dessert. I made some banana bars and frosted them with a cream cheese frosting. The cream cheese tastes a little different but I had plenty of powdered sugar so it turned out OK.
When we were at the store last week we met a man who is the radio broadcaster for Tongan Radio. He is a member of the church and he knows a lot about the history of Tonga. His ancestors were the first members of the church in Tonga. As we visited with him in the store we felt like he would be a good person to invite to come and speak to our FHE group on Monday night. He was thrilled to do it. President Tukuafu knows him. He was his younger brother’s best friend as they were growing up. President told us that he is not active right now and he thought that it would be a good experience for him to come and meet with the senior missionaries. We asked him to speak for about 30 minutes and then answer questions. He did a good job talking about the history of Tonga and the first Mormon converts, but his 30 minutes turned into an hour and he was still going strong. Plus the missionaries were asking him questions. It was good but some were more interested than others. It made it a little difficult to finish up the FHE. We stopped him, had a closing prayer and started to serve refreshments, but he started right up again. Then people didn’t feel like they could leave. Finally, Alan just had to stop him. He was a real talker!! But we learned a lot.
I came home exhausted. Nothing turned out quite like we expected it to today.
