Tuesday, April 2ndWe took the Colson’s into the office today. They met Ana Ika and Ana Lupe our office secretary, then we had a training meeting. They gave us pages of information to read and went over some of the items individually. They want us to attach hygiene training to everything we can. The church really wants to emphasize hygiene in these 3rd world countries in hopes that some of the sickness can be lessened.
We called Sione, the champion for our water project and had him come and meet the Colson’s. He was able to tell them a little about the village and their needs and explain what they have already done. Elder Colson had some questions for him and poor Sione was a nervous wreck. He did a great job answering all of them and Elder Colson thinks that we have a good chance of getting the project approved --- if we ever get it submitted!
We tried to work on the computer again today but we still can’t get the project to come up on any ones account but mine. We emailed SLC again and they said that we needed to try a different web sight. This time it worked. Not only did they forget to take us out of the training program but they forgot to set us up on the real sight. You could start to feel very unimportant and we would if Elder Colson wasn’t here to
support us and help us over this hurdle. Without his help we could have been just spinning our wheels for months into the future, if not our whole mission.
When we got that straightened out, I was able to access the real project but still no one else could. We got it set up on CHAS and got a real number assigned to it and then we had to head back to Liahona. We had a Zone Leader’s Conference that we had to speak at. Alan and I just looked at each other. We are going in so many different directions that we can’t keep our thoughts straight. OK my children think that is common, but it is even worse here and now!
The Zone Leader’s Conference went great. We are getting to know the elders now and they know us. We are loving them and having fun with them. They were very happy today. The Mission President set a goal to baptize 200 people in the month of March. They all worked soooooo hard and today he announced that they baptized 201! It was Great!!! It has rained so hard that we all got discouraged because it was really hard for the missionaries to be out a lot of the time. We didn’t know how they could ever reach their goal, but as it turned out, there was so much flooding that many people were being put up in the churches all over the island. The missionaries went to the churches to help and to teach and LOTS of those people were baptized. Like 5, 7, 9 at a time. It was amazing. The Lord works miracles in His own way and our prayers were heard and answered!
After we finished up with the missionaries we went to the Service Center to keep working on our project problems. Elder Colson had a few things he wanted to change. We had put in the actual bid for the amount of money that we would need, but he added 10% to that. We have a credit card fee here of 4% that we didn’t know about so we would have been in big trouble right there on the amount of money we will be spending. We worked for 3 hours and then headed home. We had a meeting with our investigators and the Colson’s were having dinner with Elder and Sister Bean.
Our investigators called and had to cancel. Richard was called out of town and he wanted to meet with us, so we will reschedule. It was good to have a few minutes to relax and plan for tomorrow.
