Bad Filter-Good Filter

The filter on the left is "Filter #1" in our water filtration system, after 2 months of use. The filter on the right is the one I put in this morning to replace the brown one. The water filter system the Church uses is as good as they come, we are told. Filter #1 works for 2 months. Filter #2 works for 4 months, and filter #3 works for 1 year. Filter #3 is replaced at the end of June or first of July, each year. That coincides with the coming and going of the Nigerian Mission Presidents (service time in West Africa is only 2 years, 'cause it is a tough place to serve). When the old mission president leaves, new filters #3 are installed. The new president knows that filters #3, thruout the mission are to be changed on his "Hump Day". Hump Day is half way through your mission time.....thus "Hump Day." Elders Ma'u, Ohuegbe, Pres. Dyreng, Emmanuel and I moved 45 cases of filters from the Service Center Building and stacked them in our Compound Shed, yesterday. That is enough filters for the next two years.

Linda wanted you to know that the change of filters marked the two month anniversary of our time in Nigeria. Eight more changes of filter #1 and I can stop changing filters! The used filter weighs about 10-15 times as much as the new filter. It really pulls the junk out of the water.