Thurs.
It was a good day at work today. We have to meet 18 areas of criteria in order for our projects to be approved. I decided to write it up myself and then try to copy and paste it onto the CHAS program while the internet is up and running. Sione Tonga is the man who requested this project and I needed to ask him some questions to meet that criteria. Alan called him and he came right over to our office. We spent about an hour with him. He is a great man and we really want this to go through for his village. He is so appreciative of all we are doing and so willing to do anything we ask to help us. We asked him to get his villagers to start praying that this project will be approved. He was happy to do that.
I started working on the rough draft at the office and then brought it home to continue working on it. I need some quiet place to be able to really concentrate as I write it up. This is our first one to submit and we want it to work so badly. It has to be done right the first time. It’s a lot of pressure when over 500 villagers are depending on you. I’m to old for this kind of stress!
We went to the leadership meeting tonight. It was for 7 stakes. There are 14 stakes on the big island. They did the meetings for the other 7 last night. We went to the Relief Society meeting because of my calling in the ward. Sister Burton did a great job but I had to smile. She tried to get some participation from the people in the audience, relief society sisters, bishoprics, and stake presidencies. No one would volunteer to answer her questions. It was just like our Sunday School class. It is just the way it is here. She kept after them and gradually they did contribute but it wasn’t easy for her. We didn’t feel like we should answer for them, it was their training. Elder Pearson talked too. He is amazing! Alan thinks he could be a general authority some day. They are really focusing on councils. This is the Lord’s church, councils are the Lord’s way of doing it and if done properly they will work. Their whole message was about “rescuing the one“. It was a great meeting. We were blessed to have been here. Sister Wixom did a primary training in another building. We heard that was a great meeting too.
