Monday, April 1stI really wanted to sleep in today but it was not to be. We had to be at the Mission Office by 7:00 to take the money out to the missionaries. It was a good experience today. We were able to “Snicker” 12 MQ’s. That is the equivalent of one whole zone! Since we have 3 zones on the island, we had 1/3rd of the MQ’s really clean this morning!!! It is starting to happen, I just have to be patient and have faith. We saw some of the new missionaries today and two of them were sooooo homesick. I was glad that I was there to give them some encouragement and a mother’s love. One young man from California was really down. The language is hard for him right now and when I asked him how he was doing he said fine but he didn’t look fine. I just put my arms around him and gave him a hug from his mother. He didn’t cry, you can’t do that, but I know he wanted to. We saw that in Ukraine too and it about tears my heart out. He will be fine and I will try to keep track of him until he gets his feet on the ground here.
It was very quiet in Tonga this morning. Most, if not all, of the other church were having Easter Monday services. There was very little traffic so we were able to get a lot done pretty quickly. When we got home we picked the Colson’s up and went over to the school to work on the computer. Elder Colson is determined to find our project and help us get it submitted.
We think we found the problem. When Elder Colson saw the project number he knew right away that something was wrong. It ended in 11 and a project submitted in February couldn’t have the number of 11 when there are projects submitted all over the world, everyday. He did a little digging and decided that the church had not taken us out of the training program and put us into the actual system. So for 4 months we have been submitting projects and they go NOWHERE!! No wonder no one can find them. He got on his email and wrote to Salt Lake, told them what was happening and what he thought was wrong. It was Easter in the US today so we will have to wait until tomorrow to hear back from them. In the mean time he helped us fill out a worksheet that we didn’t know existed. I’m not sure why we went to that week of training at the MTC. There are two forms that have to filled out before we can submit anything in Chas and we have never heard of them. Someone really dropped the ball just before Christmas last year! It will take awhile to straighten this all out, but at least we are getting some help now and there is hope that we can get this project submitted. We want to use every minute of the time we have with the Colson’s to learn more about how to do all of this right. They have been so kind and so helpful!
While we were on the internet we got a couple of pictures from Bryan. It looked like they had a great feast for Easter too. It was good to see a picture of Greg and Zach. It looked like they were happy, hungry and ready to dig in. Thanks to the Webbs, Greggy is well taken care of. We are grateful.
We finished up our work about 4:00 and headed to the beach at 4:30. It was low tide but that didn’t keep us from having a good time. All of the senior couples went and we had a picnic. The Colson’s loved it. We didn’t swim but we walked out to the edge of the reef and watched the waves come crashing in. It was beautiful.
It was a big day. We went to bed really tired, knowing that we will have another big day tomorrow.
