This week’s episode: Bauer and the MOC operatives resolve the problems of Luther Finau and do everything in their power to mentor the MOC recruits (the senior couple) newly arrived from the states.
1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Police Task Office Falemai
strolled into MOC headquarters
. She insisted that all operatives (Elders Karratti, Lyon, and Haltli)
were present as she discussed the aftermath events with Luther Finau. Apparently he is a self-serving con-artist who is well known by the police force. He has many convictions for drug abuse, and according to Falemai, he was on drugs when he came into MOC headquarters to retain funds from us. There was no murder! It was all an elaborate scheme to elicit money from us.
While the operatives were being debriefed, Agent Bauer (Elder Thompson) and Audrey (Sister Thompson)
were out in the field on another assignment from their superior (President McMurray). They were to train the new recruits (Elder and Sister Wood).
In order to update the Woods in the workings of MOC, they were sent to research possible locations for attacks around the island of Tongatapu.
First they examined the site of Mapu ‘a Vaea (the blow holes).
Everything checked out satisfactorily there except for the missing “Minister of Tourism” signs that were recently installed for the King’s coronation. It was at the Hufangalupe Archway, known as Pigeon’s Gate, that imminent danger awaited.
The Operation’s Handbook (Tour Guide Book) described Hufangalupe as the site where the sea pounds through an opening in the coralline limestone and tears at 30m high walls to create a natural bridge and adjacent pit. As Bauer and the “green” recruits approached the archway, they determined that indeed, the information was correct. It was possible to climb all the way down to the sea in the gully, but it is very steep and the coral rocks are razor sharp.
The operatives decided “negative” to that idea, but all seemed satisfactory at this site also.
The MOC team
got into the Mobile 1 Tumbler (van)
with its scratch-resistant paint and see-through windows. They had just started plowing through the “bush” when their vehicle met with resistance. Oh no! They were being attacked on all sides by oozing mud.
The more strength the operatives produced, the more the mud flexed its muscles. There was screeching of wheels and flying of mud, but the sticky monster of the earth could not be extinguished.
The MOC team was overmatched!
Shell-shocked, Bauer called for back-up.
The assault team of operatives went into action. They grabbed their “rescue kit” and scrambled into Mobile Tumbler 2.
Armed with hand grenades, AK1s, and taizer guns, the team, wearing invasion clothing, came screaming onto the scene. There was grunting, groaning, snorting, but no cussing (we are missionaries, you know) as the combined forces of operatives battled this international crisis. The enemy slowly succumbed. The ultimate punch was the three-stranded lasso used to corral the Mobile 1 Tumbler. Once the vehicle was encircled with the twisted strands of hemp, Mobile 2 Tumbler yanked it from the monster’s grip. Once released from the mud, both tumblers navigated the terrain together returning back to MOC headquarters.
Bauer was satisfied with the safe return of all the MOC operatives and their assault vehicles.
(All this to say, “The van got stuck in the mud, and that the office elders had to come and pull it out.”)
2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
NEXT EPISODE: After the successful completion of two episodes, this series is temporarily being terminated. Two of the main cast members, Bauer and Audrey, are being replaced by newly-assigned operatives, Sperry 1 and Sperry 2.
‘Ofa ‘atu, Bauer and Audrey
P.S. Bob and Elaine Sperry are members of our own home ward in Salt Lake City. They will be joining us in Tonga sometime in January. As a lad, Elder Sperry served as a missionary in New Zealand. They are really excited to come, and we are really excited to have them be part of our Tongan missionary force!
WE ARRIVE HOME ON 10 FEBRUARY 2009!!!
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