Fishing Updates

We have been on island here at Chuuk (Truk) for about two months now. We are located about 600 miles south and east of Guam. This is the kind of mission that living in Alaska prepares you for when it comes to remoteness, but not the heat. We live on the big island, Moen, and have a nice apartment with air conditioning and tile floors. We have a microwave, refrigerator, electric stove and oven, and heated water though the water coming out of the coldwater tap is warm enough to shower in. We drink filtered water and add a little chlorine to make sure the bugs get killed.

We are enjoying the people and the opportunity to serve. We have a special relationship with the Mission President and his wife, President and Sister Marshall, and they always spend a lot of time with us.

There is no end to the things that need to be done here in the church.  This week we have Young Single Adults and expect 70-80 to attend. We want to teach them how to line dance.   We teach temple preparation classes, investigators, training Priesthood leaders, young women, Relief Society, Branch socials, visit Seminary classes (which is quite a process as some are on outer islands) do missionary house inspections, gardening with the Relief Society, making quilts, cooking with some of the girls, shopping with others etc. and etc.  We have to teach on a 10 year old level which has really challenged us to keep it simple.  Our roof leaks and we have a pile of termite "sand" at our front door several times a day - what next????? Hopefully the building owners will do something about these things. WE ARE FINE!  

Linda learned how to make tapioca pudding from the plant, right out of the ground (dirt and all). The roots are like huge potatoes and it took 2 hours of boiling them to even get them a little soft.

We are obviously on the end of a supply chain our here. The stores seem to run out of one large item every week. A week ago they ran out of chicken which is a large part of their diet. This week you can’t find any flour. Container ships often come several times a week but we haven’t seen any this week

Previous Reports:

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

Doc & Linda’s Mission Updates:

• January
• February