Thursday, April 4thWe met Ana at Liahona this morning and headed out to see more past projects on the west side of the island. We saw two really good ones and two bad ones, but even the bad ones were still running. We saved the worst for last so that Elder Colson could see some of those too. But today when we went to one that was not working last week, we found it working. We had been told that our pump broke about a year ago and it could not be fixed. The village was using a pump that was 30 years old and they wanted us to give them a new one. Well, during the week the old pump broke and they were forced to fix the pump that they told us “couldn’t be fixed.” It only cost them 500 pa’anga and now we have one less request to process. It was a good day!
After lunch we went to the school to finish
the project. We are determined to get this done while we have help. When the Colson’s pulled up their emails they had one from Salt Lake saying, “Who are the Webbs and what is their assignment?” That made us feel important! Evidently we are the couple who fell through the cracks when all of the hustle and bustle of the new missionaries started . Salt Lake didn’t even know we were here. Elder Colson got that all straightened out and explained who we are and how valuable we are to the work in the South Pacific. Within the hour we were up and running although it took a little longer than that to sooth our bruised egos.
Once we were on the right site and in the right program, we were able to submit our project. Elder Colson and I went over all of the details and I pushed the submit button!!! It is gone!!! Now we WAIT AND WAIT AND WAIT. The Area Presidency is in Salt Lake for conference so we know it will be at least a week. But I feel like a 100 pound weight has been taken off my shoulders. I am so grateful it is done.
To celebrate, the Colson’s took us out to dinner at the Water Front, a very nice restaurant here. We just relaxed and had a lovely evening.
