Tonga!

Friday was a great day at work and a great ending to our week. We submitted our Central Phaarmacy Project on October 1st and it was approved TODAY!!, October 4th. That has to be a record for a project moving through the approval levels. Elder Reynolds, who works in the Area Office in New Zealand, is really helping us move our projects along. I don’t know what we would do without him.

We got a call from Sione, our Champion on the Lavengatonga Project, this morning. He told us that they had started working on the site in Lavengatonga. We picked him up from his work and drove out to take some pictures. We are really getting excited about seeing this one come together. We have been working on it since May!

We had Enrichment Night in our ward tonight. Peau, the young mother in our Sunday School class came. When we had a minute, she sought me out and told me that she and Vincent, her boyfriend, are going to get married next month. She is so thrilled! She said that Vincent loves our Sunday School class and that he is really interested in the church. We are hoping to get him baptized before they get married. She really wants to have a temple marriage in the future.

Also at the meeting tonight, Nita, the lady that we home teach, asked me if Alan and I would act as her parents when she is sealed to them next week. We will be honored to do that for her. She has been working toward this for a long time and we are thrilled that she would want us to be a part of it.

October 4th is my mother’s birthday. She would have been 100 years old today!! What a great woman, what a great life. I really miss her! Perhaps she helped to make this such an amazing day for us today.