Tonga!

When we got home I started cooking right away. I made 48 rolls yesterday and 48 more today. The R.S. party started at 7:00 so we drove about 1 block to the school cafeteria so we could get all those rolls there in one trip. We had a huge feast complete with the pig. The only problem is that people here don’t care about time. All of the senior missionaries were there at 7:00 along with the RS presidency and a few others, but the majority of the food didn’t arrive until 8:00 so we didn’t really get started until about 8:10. It is just the way it is done here but it is only when food is involved. We usually start Sacrament Meeting about 5 or 10 minutes early. No one, except the starving missionaries, cared one little bit that we ate so late so the party was a great success. There was a ton of food and they ate every roll in sight. (there was one bag in the back that no one saw so Alan removed it to the truck once dinner was over. I know they would have eaten all of those too.) After dinner we had a program. We had girls from different islands do their native dances. Along the way some of the men got involved and they all scream and yell and even put money down the neck of the girl’s dress. Then at the end the men danced and tried to teach the Senior Missionary elders how to do a Tongan dance. It was fun to watch and I got some great video of it. It was really fun. The Tongan people really know how to have a good time but what I liked best was when they sent us home and said that “the boys” will clean up. We got home just before 11 and we were exhausted. It was a great night!