July 8

I know I should start with church news, but I just can not.  I drove the car today when we went for a ride after church!  I am so proud of myself; I will repent for my pride later.  Our huge van which is a standard is getting registered and so we are driving a little Yaris.  Without having to worry about shifting, I wanted to try driving.  For one hour I drove, and except for turning on the wipers at every corner, it turned out to be no big deal.  As long as I concentrated everything went smoothly.  I even drove in downtown Suva.  I was on the wrong side when I turned around in an empty parking lot, but hey, no one but Scott cared.  Scott did have to point to the left once as I was turning.  All in all I feel pretty good about driving here. It was interesting, loads of times when Scott is driving I lean into the middle of the car.  Scott did it today and observed that it is tough being the passenger on the left.  It is.

Church was grand.  Just after Sacrament Meeting started, Ron sat by Scott.  I heard them talking.  After the sacrament was over Ron left and Scott had the Gospel Doctrine manual on his lap.  It seems Ron was not feeling well and asked Scott to teach for him.  He did, and did a wonderful job.  The Fijian sisters are not very comfortable in discussion groups.  We sat in a primary school classroom on kindergarten chairs.

I finally talked Scott into have the internet in our flat.  He has been OK with having it only at the office with the idea that once we are at the Institute, we will have it all day there also.  However, we have needed it at the flat for gospel study, skyping, etc.  Because we spent so much time at the office today, a Saturday, 7 to 9 and then 3 to 5:30 he realized that we just had to have it at home also.  Hurrah!  Maybe now I will get some pictures on here.

We learned a new Fijian phrase today.  Vosoti au.  It is the way they say I am sorry, but it literally means please put up with me.  It is going to be my most used phrase.