Tuesday, March 26th,
Today is Caden’s birthday but not in America. We will patiently wait until tomorrow to call him. We are so grateful for that little future missionary in our family. He is setting a good example for all of us by the way he saves conference talks and hangs pictures of the temples in his room. We are very proud of him.
We were the only ones in the office today, everyone else had meetings elsewhere. Thus, we were able to get a lot done and I even got a few things on the blog! Wow, miracles never cease.
We went back into town this evening and met the missionaries. We have been assigned to a different ward and they meet in town. There is a couple there that they have been teaching along with the Jensens, who just returned to the states. President Tukuafu has asked us to teach them now. The wife, Lina, is a member but her husband, Richard, (I can’t spell his Tongan name) is not. They have two daughters that the missionaries have been teaching in Tongan. They both are over 8 and want to be baptized. Richard is learning all he can about the church. He was raised Catholic and his parents are not happy about him looking into another church. He is the oldest son and he feels very responsible to them. Still, he likes everything that he knows about the church and he wants to know more. We had a great visit with them and it felt SOOOO GOOD TO BE TEACHING THE LESSONS AGAIN!!! We didn’t realize how much we had missed that part of being on a mission. Richard is going to take some time over this Easter weekend and write down some questions that he would like us to answer for him. We will be meeting with them every Tuesday evening.
One very sad note, Lina’s sister, who was only in her early 40’s, died of a heart attack two weeks ago, leaving two children behind. A daughter who is 9 and a son who is 11. They are both members of the church. Lina and Richard are adopting them. To look into the sad eyes of those two beautiful children about broke my heart. Maybe I will be bringing some little ones home with me after all.
