Monday, Jan. 18th, 2013
We started the day with a devotional at the Service Center. Then we headed down to the office. We had a man come in today that was very impressive. He is the head of the fire department here. He wanted us to give him some computers and a file cabinet. Alan had to explain to him that the church is not here to give items to a government agency that should be funded by the Tongan Government. It’s sad. This is a critical need organization and yet the government won’t provide the funds to see that they are fully trained. We are crossing our fingers that we don’t have a fire anywhere near us while we are here. The fire trucks, fully loaded have enough water to fight a fire full force for about 10 minutes. Then with the pressure here it will take about 30 minutes to fill the truck again. They can be filled at the ocean but only if it is high tide. SCARY!!
We had dinner with the Szokas tonight and then tried to watch National Treasure 2. We got about half way through it, just so we were good and hooked, and then it wouldn’t work. It just stopped. I guess the Lord sent us here to learn patience. So far I’m not doing to well.
