This is our friend "croakie" who chirps and sings to us. Our power has been out all day. Sister Patten had put an apple crispy deep dish thing in the oven for district meeting this morning when everything stopped. We just noticed that the power was back on so she hurried and made an apple pie and baked it before we go back out this evening. The weekly newspaper said yesterday that we only have enough diesel to run the electrical generators for power until the 29th of January. They were expecting the fuel ship on the 24th of January but it will not arrive until the 2nd of February. Not to worry though the government has assurred us that we will not be without power. I guess they had second thoughts as the power on half of the atol was off all day today. My one branch president finished his tithing settlement paperwork and has turned it in. He thought he was through until we challenged him to visit all of his members in his branch in the next three weeks. "How could he possibly do this you ask?" He recently lost his job and so he has to much time on his hands so this will turn out to be a great blessing for him. I promised him if he would do this that the Lord would provide a job for him. My other branch president and I finished his tithing settlement last nite. Now the challenge for both branches is to go send out records if the members no longer live in their branch. I ask about one family and the president said they live in Hawaii. I asked if they were coming back and he said no. " The father can't get the medical treatment that he needs in Majuro." "Let's send his records to his new address in Hawaii." "We can't do that says the branch president because he's from Uliga branch." If someone is baptised in Uliga branch and moves to the other end of the atol then they can't go to church anymore because they were baptised in Uliga branch and it's to far to come every sunday even though they may live close to Laura branch chapel. Sometimes I get a little frustrated and then I think of my own ancestors in Nauvoo and the early days of the church. They didn't get it right all of the time either. We love the youth and know that they are the future here. We were with the sister missionaries the other day. We had visited one of our alcoholics. Sister Patten was talking to the wife and telling her that she needed to be more firm with her husband. She told her that if he comes home drunk again to take the children and go to her brother's house for a little while. She also said that the children needed to be in school so they wouldn't run around like little "wild indians" One of the sister missionaries is from Fiji and is of Indian descent. I got the giggles and put my arm around the missionary and said "Are you our little wild indian?" Now I tease her every time we are together about being our "little wild indian." I know, I know I can't help myself sometimes. We love these missionaries so darned much that we think all of them are our grandkids. Last transfer one of the sister missionaries from Papau NG was transferred from our district. We saw her the other day and she ran to us and hugged us and said " I'm missing you twos ." We're loving this mission. We have to be really careful when we are out and about because we know a lot of people now and we don't want to miss saying hello to anyone. If we are transferred one of these days we don't know how we will be able to leave the people and the things that we are involved in. Then we come back to reality and know that every missionary feels that way about the area that they are serving. We love you all and want you to know that we are doing well and are happy. Love, Grampie/John/dad/Grandma/Lois/mom
This is our friend "croakie" who chirps and sings to us. Our power has been out all day. Sister Patten had put an apple crispy deep dish thing in the oven for district meeting this morning when everything stopped. We just noticed that the power was back on so she hurried and made an apple pie and baked it before we go back out this evening. The weekly newspaper said yesterday that we only have enough diesel to run the electrical generators for power until the 29th of January. They were expecting the fuel ship on the 24th of January but it will not arrive until the 2nd of February. Not to worry though the government has assurred us that we will not be without power. I guess they had second thoughts as the power on half of the atol was off all day today. My one branch president finished his tithing settlement paperwork and has turned it in. He thought he was through until we challenged him to visit all of his members in his branch in the next three weeks. "How could he possibly do this you ask?" He recently lost his job and so he has to much time on his hands so this will turn out to be a great blessing for him. I promised him if he would do this that the Lord would provide a job for him. My other branch president and I finished his tithing settlement last nite. Now the challenge for both branches is to go send out records if the members no longer live in their branch. I ask about one family and the president said they live in Hawaii. I asked if they were coming back and he said no. " The father can't get the medical treatment that he needs in Majuro." "Let's send his records to his new address in Hawaii." "We can't do that says the branch president because he's from Uliga branch." If someone is baptised in Uliga branch and moves to the other end of the atol then they can't go to church anymore because they were baptised in Uliga branch and it's to far to come every sunday even though they may live close to Laura branch chapel. Sometimes I get a little frustrated and then I think of my own ancestors in Nauvoo and the early days of the church. They didn't get it right all of the time either. We love the youth and know that they are the future here. We were with the sister missionaries the other day. We had visited one of our alcoholics. Sister Patten was talking to the wife and telling her that she needed to be more firm with her husband. She told her that if he comes home drunk again to take the children and go to her brother's house for a little while. She also said that the children needed to be in school so they wouldn't run around like little "wild indians" One of the sister missionaries is from Fiji and is of Indian descent. I got the giggles and put my arm around the missionary and said "Are you our little wild indian?" Now I tease her every time we are together about being our "little wild indian." I know, I know I can't help myself sometimes. We love these missionaries so darned much that we think all of them are our grandkids. Last transfer one of the sister missionaries from Papau NG was transferred from our district. We saw her the other day and she ran to us and hugged us and said " I'm missing you twos ." We're loving this mission. We have to be really careful when we are out and about because we know a lot of people now and we don't want to miss saying hello to anyone. If we are transferred one of these days we don't know how we will be able to leave the people and the things that we are involved in. Then we come back to reality and know that every missionary feels that way about the area that they are serving. We love you all and want you to know that we are doing well and are happy. Love, Grampie/John/dad/Grandma/Lois/mom
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