Sunday, February 24th, 2013
Another good day at church. I taught Relief Society today. It was the lesson out of the Ensign but no one ever told me which one the bishop wanted taught so I chose Elder Ballards and Sister Burtons. They went well together. The sisters in our ward were great to respond to my questions and we had a really good discussion. I was a little worried about that but it wasn’t a problem at all today. As I was preparing the lesson I realized that the people of Tonga are amazing at keeping the 1st and 2nd commandments. They all Love God, weather they are members of our church or another church. They truly keep the Sabbath Day Holy. Everything is closed here and it is against the law to sell things. They attend church, they spend the day visiting family and they love their families and neighbors as themselves. If things go bad for you over here there is nothing to worry about. There are people in line waiting to help you in every way. It’s amazing.
Our Sunday school class is down to 19 people now. It is much better and they are starting to open up a “little bit”. We think there is hope.After church we had a home teaching appointment with our home teacher. Then I did my visiting teaching, well half of it, we will finish up on Tuesday. We go to the dorm mother at Liahona. She is responsible for 50+ girls, 24x7 for 9 months. I would be pulling my hair out in 15 minutes. She is a saint!
Next we went to dinner at the Johnson’s. They invited us and Sister Mitchell, the mission nurse, for Sunday dinner. It was fun and the meal was delicious. They had meetings in the evening and we had invited the Szokas to come watch the rest of National Treasure 2 at our house. We were hoping that if we watched it on the computer we could get it to work. We had the projector from the office that we used to show a movie in our Sunday School class today. We rearranged the furniture and projected it on the wall in our front room. The only problem was that they couldn’t find the movie. They don’t know what happened to it so we don’t know if we will ever see the end of that movie. We just pulled up another movie and watched the Return to Snowy River. Our front room isn’t that wide so it was a little close when those horses took off across the Australian countryside, but it was beautiful. What fun! We now have our own theatre room in our little house in Tonga. Wahoo!! It just keeps getting better and better.
