Tonga!

Wednesday, June 5^th,

I spent the morning working on a success story for Steve Stebbings. He wanted me to write up our experience with the village of Lavengatonga and send it to him along with some pictures so that he could share them with the Area Authorities in their Area Welfare Meeting. It was easy to write up the story and decide on the pictures, the trick was in getting them to Steve. Once again the internet would not work and when it did, all I could send was the story about the village. I knew I would have to go to Liahona to send the pictures but when I got there the electricity was out. There was a major electrical outage this morning at Liahona and when the generator kicked on it blew up. No one knew how long it would take to fix it but luckily it only took a few hours instead of a few days. It came back on late this afternoon and I was able to send the pictures -- one at a time--- to New Zealand.
 
We called Greg this afternoon and had a good visit with him. He is going to go to Temple Square and send the missionaries to visit with my brother Jim. I have been praying about this our whole mission and feel that I really want to do something to help him find his way back to the gospel. I am praying that they have a Tongan missionary in Pocatello. These Tongans are amazing they can find a way straight into your heart. With a lot of fasting and prayers, I am hoping for a miracle.

We called David tonight too, but right in the middle of the conversation our phone ran out of minutes. We will have to call him back when we can get some more time on the phone.  We found out that it costs $2.80 for the first 4 minutes, not $2.50 so we didn't have enough money left for that last call.  But we also learned that after the first 4 minutes we now get 1 hour free instead of just 30 minutes.  So it was a good thing that our time ran out or we would never have known.  The Lord works in mysterious ways!

Alan had been asked to be on a priesthood panel for mutual tonight so while he was gone I worked on the Dental Project. I think I have it ready to submit tomorrow. I will be glad to get that one off my mind!