Getting Started

Talofa,

Here is the view from our front sidewalk look toward the Pesega School. Then the next is our one bedroom apartment, the next is looking down the street the other direction. 

We went to our Samoan Ward (Motootua Ward) and Grandma thought she had died and gone to heaven practicing her Samoan.

Here is the fish market we went to on P-Day (Saturday) that is not me next to Linnea. The next market picture is one of the rows of fish. The closest to you is the tuna steaks Granma bought one of those. I was not that excited as the others. The branches in their hands is not to keep the fish cool, it is to keep off the flies.

The next pictures are of beautiful Sautiatu. It takes a hour on a windy coastal highway (mostly pot holes), then 7 kilometers but the mountain on a rough, rocky road.This is where the primary school that we are responsible to teach the teachers and principal. 

This is looking down the lone street through the village. Above these homes you can see the water falls in the mountains above, we saw four or five that day. 

President David O. McKay blessed this village that it would be a place of peace and protection. Many early members of the Church had their lives threatened when they joined the Church and had to flee here to protect their lives. This Fale was erected as a memorial to Pres. McKay’s Apostolic blessing.

  

The following pictures are of the beautiful waterfall near the village. This is an important place for the Samoans. You can swim in the pool below the falls, but it had rained and was muddy and we had no swim suits. We will go there at least once a week so we should get to swim sometime on P-day.

The pigs run all over (and chickens) but if you hit a pig on the highway you have to pay a outrageous price for it and then they take it home and eat it anyway!

We are so busy. Linnea is observing a music class right now and I am trying to get a transcript from BYUH for a Sister needed to transfer some credits. We are still in a little bit of a panic on all we have to do, but the Lord will bless us because we are on His errand.

Tofa Soifua,

Grampa and Grandma Hammond