Last night we had a glorious time with the young missionaries having a party to celebrate Elder Aoina’s birthday yesterday and Rex’s birthday two weeks ago. We had pizza and they had all sorts of desserts and ice cream. After dinner, we played Scum. There was a lot of joking and laughing. Good Fun!

     A week ago, we had a district dinner. The chicken and rice dish was made by one of our less active members. The Elders have been teaching her daughter. We had so much food that we invited the Bennets to come eat with us. They are a Senior Couple based in New Zealand, but covering the whole Pacific Rim teaching Family History and helping members find their ancestors for temple work. She is so exuberant! It made me tired just watching her, but I had to smile at her excitement and enthusiasm. As with all the Senior Missionaries, they are outstanding.

     We are working hard to correlate Powerpoint presentations to present three Self Reliance Courses at once—My Path, My Foundation, and Education for Better Work. We will also be teaching concepts from My Job Search, which will be the course we teach at the end. The church has some amazing tools in place to help these people. Now we just need to find those who want the help enough to work really hard for it. The Education class is very demanding, and the road to get a PEF Loan is an intricate and hard roller coaster ride with lots of twists and turns and hidden surprises. We’ve already given the man the ticket, and we are on that ride once again. We’ll see how many make it safely and successfully to the end. President Bull says he will give us a list of members to add to the few we have already gathered. Hopefully, we can begin the course next week.

     We are proud of the young missionaries. They have been working so hard. They are expecting to have 5 or 6 baptisms next week. We will report on that later.

Take care, Everyone!

We Love You!

The Birthday Boy is taking the picture. He should have been in it.
Their pizzas are not as good as at home. The cheese is inferior, and the crust is like cardboard. They use catsup to enhance the flavor. Still costs over $15 US money.