Pictures, Day 1 Samoa

Elder Fata in the office, talking about our plan for the day.

Sister Mareta Lata, my pen pal for many months.

Just one of our many churches here.  There are numerous buildings because about 33% of the population are LDS.

A white tank, 3,000 liters; catching rain.

This is the screen at the top that filters all the bad stuff that first drains into the tank.  

This is a house, up here in the hills, the ones that served us our huge 'snack'.  

This is another part that they use to do their cooking.  It looks like permanent camping to me.

This is the cocoa with pod removed.

The name of our church in Samoan.

This is a traditional building that we see everywhere we look.  It is an open air building and I guess they use it but don't usually see people in them.  This one is rather fancy.  Some just have 4 posts and a roof.

Well, I guess we know that a Mormon family lives here...

This is another way that they capture water and filter it as they go--just a piece of cloth tired over the container.

This was a weed whacker and we also saw lawn mowers, and this was up the hill somewhere we had just visited.  Obviously this country is not as poor as other countries we've been to.  In Africa if they want to keep the greenery away from the road they hack it or burn it; here they just use a weed whacker.