Friday, April 26th
It was a beautiful day today. The weather is starting to cool off a little and the humidity is lots lower so life is good in Tonga. I was able to write a few emails at the office this morning that I sent from Lihaona in the afternoon. We are trying to keep track of our project and also work on a couple of other things.
We left early to go to our last Zone Conference of the week. Sometimes we wonder why we speak to them, nothing seems to be changing. Sister Tukuafu, our Mission President’s wife doesn’t get involved in the missionary housing. She is a wonderful woman and I love her, but she is very shy and unsure of her English so she hates to speak when we are around. We are hoping that the new Mission President’s wife will take a more active roll with the missionaries and help us with the housing problems. The Mission President is focused on the Spiritual things and really doesn’t want to worry about the temporal.
On our way home from the Zone Conference we found a lady selling American products in front of her house. She had Raisin Brand for $15.00 ($25.00 at the American store), Clorox for $15.00 and large boxes of Kleenex for only $3.00!! We were thrilled. We don’t go out that way too often but maybe we will start. It’s closer than going into town and no people!!
We were able to go for a nice walk tonight. It’s fun just to walk around Liahona. Everyone is so friendly and we see lots of people that we don’t get to see on Sunday anymore. It does make it hard to get a good walk in though. I really long to get out and take a fast walk but Alan’s leg has been giving him trouble again so we are taking it easy for now. I don’t want to walk without him, especially at night.
