Fishing Updates

We enjoyed dinner with the Mission President and his wife, the Mission MD, and the Area Psychiatrist and their wives.  Mom is OK but they are worried about me.  I told the Psyc. Dr. that I needed about 3 weeks of intensive care and he told me he'd like some of my steak if I didn't want it all.  Should I feel bad?

Our living conditions are second world, upper class.  The apartment has all electric appliances (stove and oven, microwave, small beat up fridge).  The walls are painted concrete and look nice.  The floor is 16" squares of high gloss tile in a beige color.  We are on the 2nd story.  The apartment has three rooms plus a bath.  Each room has an air conditioner and they are usually adequate.  The apartment complex has three apartments upstairs. A water purification/filtration store, office, video game room, and Laundromat occupy the first floor.  The game room attracts lots of young men and some nights it is quite noisy until almost midnight.

We drink filtered water to which we add 1 teaspoon of bleach to each 5-gallon container.  Our hamburger has a Miller Beef from Hyrum, Utah label.  Mom's milk has a Gossner Label.  The spam is Armour brand, potato chips are Frito-Lay.  When we can get potatoes they are Idaho russets.  Bananas for eating cost $1.25 a bunch of about 20.  The bananas are about 1/2 the size of what you buy in the store there.  We can buy coconuts ready to drink for about .50.  Interestingly, when you open a fresh coconut the juice is under pressure and sprays out.  If they sit in the fridge for a day the pressure is gone.  Fresh coconut milk stains shirts.

Temperatures hit 89 hot degrees  often.  It drops to about 76 overnight.  We do well on the nights when the power stays on all night, but when it is off for several hours our bedroom gets too warm.  Most nights the power goes off between midnight and 3:00AM, and doesn't come on until 6:30.  By that time the bedroom temperature is in the 80's.  Every night at 7PM the Island Power goes off and it takes a few minutes for the owners to start the generator.  We look out our front window at the ocean, but the beach isn't taken care of.  The breeze coming off the water is too warm to just open the windows and cool down.

We spent most of a day taking care of a sick Elder.  He helped us diagnose the problem by throwing up an 8” long Ascaris (round worm).  We are all going to be taking de-worming pills every six months to stay clean inside and out.

Previous Reports:

• 2007 Fishing Season
• 2006 Fishing Season
• 2005 Fishing Season

Doc & Linda’s Mission Updates:

• January
• February