December 5

We went to the temple this morning with Suzanne.  The sisters were so cute with her.  They do not advertise it, but they have clothes here if one is without.  Many of the Fijian Saints who live in outlying
areas can not afford to have temple clothes, many Saints come in from the other islands without clothing, and, of course, people come from elsewhere unprepared to attend the temple; so our temple has clothing to loan out. We were grateful they did. It was cute that Suzanne had one shoe that fit and one shoe that was way too big. She just grinned--a memory of Fiji.

We then spent the afternoon riding around, shopping, and visiting the Fiji Museum which turned out
to be much nicer that I would have supposed.  It was a great, relaxing day.

I was reminded today that people are always watching us as Latter-day Saints. I was wandering around the museum store when the clerk asked me if I knew the Whippys? I said that I knew of them; they are a large family (at least 4 sons + daughters) and the dad used to be the Service Center Director here before he was assigned to Papau New Guinea. The clerk went on and on about how wonderful the Brother and Sister Whippy were and what wonderful children they had. It was obvious that the clerk held the entire family in high esteem. I was overcome by gratitude for this family who had been good examples "in all things, in all times and in all places."  I wonder if we will ever know the power of our example.