September 23

Do you ever have Sunday mornings when you just barely make it out of bed let alone get to church?  Well this morning was one of those for me.  I am quite proud that I not only made it, but we were early.  Not bad for an 8:00 a.m. meeting.

We went to Sacrament Meeting in our ward, and then went to the Suva Stake Center which houses three wards to pass out flyers for our Single Adult Activity on the 5th.  We left there and went to the Church College to pass out the flyers to the two Tamavua wards.  As we were leaving there, Scott asked me where I thought we should go next, Suva 1st or out to the Lami Chapel.  As we were discussing it, we both felt strongly that we should go out to Lami even though it is a ways out and the single adults there would most likely not attend the activity, but those at the Suva 1st Ward would.  When we got to Lami, we ask a young man to take us to Bishop Titoko as his ward was not in Sacrament Meeting.  We knocked and the Bishop opened his door, grinned, and asked us in.  We told him that we would not bother him; our errand was a quick one.  He insisted.  He told us that he had been praying for weeks to know what training should happen during the 5th Sunday Combined Meeting.  "You are the answer to my prayers."  We are teaching the class next Sunday on rescuing their Young Adults, getting them back to church, and ready to enter the temple.  Amazing.  It is so nice to be the answer to someone's prayer.  I am grateful that Heavenly Father knows that we will listen and obey; that He trusts us.

Went to a Missionary Fireside at the Nausori Stake Center.  President and Sister Klinger are wonderful, strong, and kind.    Both spoke and it was inspirational.  During the fireside a missionary quartet sang.  WOW!  Two tenors and two basses and they sang a cappella.  It was amazing.  The missionary that pitched it had the most beautiful tenor voice.  I generally like basses better, but not this time.  Wow.  He is about to be released.  He is from the Marshall Islands.  His parents moved to Enid Oklahoma while he was on his mission; he is really going to have adjustment issues.  Poor guy.