Elder Cook comes to Fiji! All the missionaries got to come. The North Zone flew!

 

We had to get on the scale for our flight to Suva. The plane is very small so they need to balance weight! 

 

Flying to Suva from Savusavu.

Practice the evening before devotional. It was so fun to watch the students sing and prepare. We love this song!! So do the people in Fiji!! “Come Fill my Soul Today” This was the last verse. I could not get the whole song to download on the Blog. If you want the full song let me know and I’ll send it to you through WhatsApp.

This was the school devotional with Elder Cook. Choir on the left, (these are young people that live in the dorms on campus, ages 16-18), primary school children on the right in the green uniforms, and the rest of LDS middle age students in the back. The director was very animated and fun to watch.

Dan was recording while sitting up front on the stage when the students started singing, trying to be discreet. Then some others came up by us and were recording the farewell song so he lifted the camera and got video of the end. 

Sisters before the Missionary devotional. Wala in blue and Wahlstrom in pink are in Savusavu with us! Fantastic missionaries!

Missionaries before the devotional 

 

Sister La’ulu’s entrance. I wish I had been recording when she came in! Soooo funny!

Suva Fiji Mission minus some of the Senior missionaries. They arrived too late for the photo.

Sister Chand shaking Elder Cooks hand!

 

Missionary Devotional-Elder Cook

President La’ulu

Elders and sisters singing in the stairwell at the Mission home/temple housing.They think the sound is better in there! They are very good singers.

 

Photo from the plane.

Missionaries in front of the airport sign!

  

Hello Nadi airport for the second time on our mission. We arrived here from LA the first time.

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In the back of the small plane. Nice picture of the muddy river. I think they are always muddy!

 

 

The long board and mallet are used to pound tapa. Tapa is similar to a piece of paper. They peal the bark off the tapa tree?? branches and then pound the inside til it s flat. Then pound pieces together. They paint pictures or designs on the pounded tapa. The mallet Elder Keck is holding was very heavy. It was made from very hard wood. Sometime we need to see them doing it so we can video the process.

 

This is President Uluiviti’s house that he built. Pretty amazing considering what they have to build with. Sister Uluiviti made us some fry bread, that they called pancakes.