Today, we were deployed to Tona to help a family to cut the grass in their paddy field. Every year, the family would send a request to the government to deploy people to cut the grass in their field. However, due to the occurrence of the tsunami, the government has been swarmed with tsunami recovery work and hence, they were unable to attend to other requests.

The grass in the field was really high at about 2 meters tall. Although the field looked small, it was really hard work cutting the grass as it was a really hot day and we had to keep bending our backs to cut the grass. The tsunami had also swept many items into the field and we picked up items such as baseballs, plates, vases, tombstones and even larger debris such as entire slabs of walls from homes. It really reminded me of how drastic the ramifications of the tsunami were and caused the lives of the victims to be disrupted completely. It reminded me to continue to pray for the tsunami survivors to cope with recovering from the trauma of the tsunami.