It is Fast day today. I am glad. I feel a real need of an increase of the Spirit. Kristin said it was a very spiritual meeting. These Fijians are so strong spiritually. Their faith is the faith of little children; not immature, but total and it goes to the very marrow of their bones. I love to hear them bare testimony. Fast Meeting is my favorite meeting here.
As we were entering the building, Brother Tuatonga pulled Scott aside. Brother Tuatonga is our neighbor one house over and is here in Fiji waiting for a visa to get himself, his mother, and his little family (wife and two boys) into the US. They have been waiting for over a year. Anyway, he pulled Scott over and told him that he and his family had been fasting to know who should bless their baby girl. Each independently had felt that it should be Elder Tennis. "Will you do it for us?" What an honor. How humble Brother Tuatonga must be to want the person the Lord wants to bless his child even though that person may not be himself. Brother Tuatonga is the High Priest Group leader and one of those men who are always out doing the Lord's errand.
Scott did a wonderful job! What a privilege. What a blessing in Scott's life. The Spirit was so strong as Scott blessed little Sera (sarah).
After church we fixed lunch hurriedly because we had asked the Jarmans to eat with us and we needed to drive the 3 1/2 hours to Nadi before dark. Jarmans came and I had Elder Jarman teach my how to make good instant potatoes which to be truthful I thought was a figment of someone imagination. However, after Elder Jarman oversaw my making of the potatoes, I have to admit that they were good much better than mashed potatoes made from the real ones we buy here. Easier, too. Our conversation was so lovely that we forgot time until Sister Jarman asked what time we needed to leave. When we looked up to answer we were way past that hour.
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