August 30

Thursdays are always our longest and busiest days.  We have two lessons to give plus some kind of food for between classes and a treat for after the last class.  I generally cook in the mornings because our fridge is not large enough to hold much, and one can not leave food out for very long.  We and this little tiny ants here.  Really little.  They are everywhere.  We have ant traps in the pantry and all over the kitchen.  I can not imagine what it would be like without them, because we still have them everywhere.  I sprayed and sprayed when we got here, but I have given up.  I just cook and then put everything in closed containers and/or ziploc plastic bags.  And yes we have ziploc bags here.

In the midst of baking today, I took some stuff out to the little (bigger than the one in the house) garbage can that sits in the corner in the carport.  I looked up on my way back into the house and noticed some man waving at me across the street.  As I didn't have my glasses on I had no idea who it was.  Not wanting to be unfriendly I walked down to the gate to see.  It was Dan, one of the young adults in our old Samabula ward.  He came in and talked while I worked.  I could tell he wanted to eat, so I told him to go get Scott at the service center and I would have lunch ready when he got back.  He stayed until we left to start classes at three.  There is no rest for the wicked or for the friendly.

For the food today, I concocted a tuna sandwich.  Took a whole loaf of bread and split it in two across, tore out some of the soft bread in the bottom half and then stuffed it with a tuna mixture made up of tuna, grated carrots, cucumber, and tomato.  The young adults loved it.  We had wonderful brownies for the treat.  I love the internet.  It is so nice to be able to find recipes that have been tried and rated.  These brownies were so good, so easy, and wonder of wonders I can get all of the ingredients.

Scott's lesson in Pearl of Great Price was so good tonight.  He is always a power house in Mission Prep, because he loves missionary work so much, but tonight his best lesson was P of GP.  We had 15 students in Mission Prep (up 3) and 19 in P of GP (up 4).  One of the new students won't be here long; he is from Papau New Guinea, living in Suva, and leaving on his mission in the end of September.  It is interesting that he has been called to serve in Suva.  The church was sending him to the NZ MTC.  His stake president here had to call the church and explain that he is from PNG where they speak Pigeon English.  He doesn't speak Fijian.  He is now going to Provo.  It will be a whole new world there for him.  Coming to Fiji from PNG is a whole new world.

Heavenly Father is blessing our work.  Every week we have new students.  The word is spreading that we are here and kids are coming.  Soon we will have to establish hours for the institute building, so they can come and just hang out together and with us.