Hello Family & Friends,
We made it to American Samoa last night. We are close to the capital Paga Paga, pronounced Pango Pango, silent "n" before all "g". We got in bed around 12:30 am and up at 5:00 am. The dogs barked throughout the night, the roosters crowed, and the birds were singing early this morning. This is a tropical area and we had rain several times during the night which helped to cool things off. We have a fan in our room which has helped to keep us cool, there is no A/C. The floor is sagging in places due to the sheeting not matching up to the floor joist (oops). This is American territory, where is Span when you need them.
Okay, so 12:30 AM is really 7:30 AM home time....We hardly know what day it is. We are going to get an office set up and are are having a Skype conference call now discussing teams coming in. We have 1500 displaced families and many needing fresh water. So, we are going from village to village and getting permission from the Chief to purify water and that is our opportunity to go back in and minister to the villages. The Chief....he rules. They are called the Matai...the big chief. We need to find favor with the different village Matai's, that is a prayer request.
So...we will send more information later....but all in all, we are good. We have a lot to learn about their culture but they are very sweet people.
Praises... the Lord blessed us with 18 FREE bags on Hawaiian Airlines. The is a true blessing when they would have been $80 per bag. We got here safely, with no problems.
Please pray for:
1. Adjusting to local time
2. We can understand how the culture works here, very different from US
3. We will be ready for teams that will begin arriving next Wednesday.
4. Pray for the Samoan people, they need Jesus.
Thanks you all for your prayers!!! We can sure feel them!!!
Love to all!
Ronda and Randy
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