One night we came home very late and found that the tile floor in the living room of the mission home had "exploded." For some reason, it just pushed up from beneath. The mission home is built on sand. I think that they forgot the construction fundamental that "the wise man built his house upon the rock" and also forgot to anchor the foundation on the bedrock below the sand. So, the house shifts. A couple of weeks later the same thing happened upstairs in the master bedroom. This happened on November 11. After Christmas, FM showed up to fix it. In the meantime, we had one complete change of missionaries who did not come to the mission home for food. We went to restaurants with the new and the old. There was nowhere to put them in the house! And Christmas came and went. The bonus was that nobody had to put up the plastic Christmas Tree that someone else bought years ago. That was good.