Monday, April 8thWe went to the Service Center to our devotional this morning to find out that we weren’t having one today. Sure wish these people would learn how to send out an email!! The room was being used for translation. All of conference that is translated into Tongan is done right here at Liahona. This poor translation team has been working around the clock to get everything done and then copied onto CDs and sent out to every ward and branch that needs a Tongan version. It is a HUGE job!!!
When we got into work we had a staff meeting so Ana will be prepared for her Manager’s meeting tomorrow. She is excited to go and tell them about our project. Also, the Beans are seeing 16 students off to BYU Hawaii today that they have helped to get grants. They have done a wonderful job helping these YSA continue with their educations. Our office will look good at the meeting tomorrow and it should. We work darn hard down here!!
I have been trying to catch up with laundry and everything that we let go last week so that is what I did this afternoon. I also had to make cookies for game night tonight. We have a game night about every 2 or 3 month. Alan doesn’t love to play games but we always have a good time. We also called Bryson for his birthday. It isn’t his birthday here but it is in America so that is when we call. He didn’t really want to talk to us. He had just opened his presents and he had better things to do. We called in the middle of his party. How did that little stinker get to be 4 so fast? Our grandkids are growing up way to fast!
We took the water sample that we collected from our house while the Colson’s were here, with us to FHE. It is supposed to be light yellow if it is safe to drink but ours is green. That means there is some bad stuff in it. Ours turned light green so it won’t kill us but we still need to be diligent in using our filters. We talked to all the couples about how to change their filters and gave each of them a years supply of filters.
We also took water samples at two of the villages we visited and they both have bad water. Theirs is really bad. It has e-coli in it. That comes from animal and human waste. We are working on a plan to help the villages clean up their water supplies.
Then we played Rummi-cube. I love that game but it makes me homesick for David and Tony Grove. We always played it up there and David always won. Well not always, but, most of the time.
