Aug 25-31

Thursday
The Zone leader called us to say that they were at the health clinic for one of the missionaries.  NOT AGAIN!!!  We quickly told them that they were not to use that clinic and then we called the mission nurse.  We then picked up the sick Elders and took them to the clinic that we are supposed to use (It is Dr. Lazarus, from Austrailia) and he gave them some medicine.

Elder Burgess at doctor's clinic

Satuday
Lynn taught institute class.  We had 11 young adults there!  And afterward we had 13 baptisms!

13 baptisms

Sunday

We went to the airport to get a new Elder, who is from Vanuatu.  The zone leader was told that the new elder was from New Zealand and was white.  So it was a surprise to see someone with dark skin.

Elder Sellnaguy 2nd from left

Joyce came to visit us in our apartment.  She does this at least once a week.  It isn't too bad except tonight she told us her story about trying to get paid for her business in Malaita (other island) and she missed the boat...literally.  Her money was with someone else and she didn't get to the wharf before they left.  So she asked us if we could help her by giving her some money until she could get hers on Wednesday.  There is such a fine line between helping and enabling...  We ended up giving her a loaf of bread.  (For some reason, we had bought 3 loaves of bread and frozen them.)  I wish you could have seen her eyes when we pulled that frozen loaf of bread from the freezer.  She was SO AMAZED to think that we could have an extra loaf of bread but it was frozen.  A whole new concept for her.  We also gave her some transport money to get her home.

Joyce Kuse

...the continuing saga of the water tanks...
We were informed that a member of a branch SOLD the church's water tank and shipped it to Malaita!!!!  What???? How do you do such a thing?  It was all set up with gutters and a foundation.  What a mess these tanks are.

We have two young adults that want to go on a mission so they come to us because the district president wants them to fill out their papers on line.  This may seem like an easy thing to do but over here it's a whole different story.  There is 1 computer on the island that is set up with the church administrative system.  The district clerk is over it.  So the Branch Presidents have to go to the Honiara church building to use a computer, which they don't quite understand how to sign on, etc.  Lynn spent an hour with the district clerk trying to get the branch president's accounts to work with NO luck.  More investigation is needed but the district president wants to do the applications online.

We helped Maclean fill out more of  his BYUH application and advised him of the next steps.

We had to test two students who have applied for the SOCS program (study overseas at Samoa), math and English.  They took the math test Saturday and the English test Monday.