Winter has finally hit. Today the temperature was 24º C which is 75ºF. I wore a sweater all day. I only brought one sweater, but the girls sent me another one for either my birthday or Christmas. I am so grateful for it.
We went to see The Lone Ranger this afternoon for family home evening. Semi (Say me) Driso sat with us as he came alone to the movie. After the movie was over we saw Lillian and Jimmy who were waiting to see another movie. As we were talking about The Lone Ranger, Semi mentioned to Lillian and Jimmy that the movie was funny but "Sister Tennis laughed in all the wrong places." I did not defend myself, because I did laugh in many places that no one else laughed and that is because the Fijians did not grow up on The Lone Ranger TV series like I did. Much of the humor was based on the old TV series.
After the movie we grabbed some groceries, ran home, and prepared for diner with the APs. One of the nicest blessing from serving this mission is that Scott and I are working together in the kitchen. I am not sure that he would agree with me, but I love the give and take that goes into working in a kitchen with him. I am awfully proud of him; he was never expected to help in the kitchen as a kid, and was always too busy to help as we were raising our children. This is, indeed, one blessing that I would never have predicted and I am so grateful for it.
When the vegetables were washed and the meat on to cook, Scott and I along with Filipe went to Finau's house. Finau is a creative genius. She created the new designed for the plane tails for Fiji Airways. We went to see her, because she also makes scripture totes. Scott wants one for his quad and I want one for my I-pad. That her work is beautiful is an understatement.
We got home just in time to finish dinner. As we were fixing it, Elder Jackson came to tell us that Filipe had our cell phone. Scott had to hop in the car and drive all the way out to Lami to pick it up. We live and die by our texting. There is no way we can live without our phone.
The Elders came five minutes after Scott got home. I was just ready. Nice. They brought a stake missionary who is here to serve while he gets his endowments and then leave on his real mission. He was a really smart kid from Vanua Levu. He was so cute. I had made cole slaw; Scott loves it. When I passed him the cole slaw, he did not take any. After he saw Scott take a huge serving and then seconds, he decided he may want some. He took maybe a tablespoonful. After he had eaten that he asked for more and actually filled half his dinner plate with it. He admitted that he was timid about new food, but admitted that he really liked the cole slaw. Good experience for his mission in the U.S. of A. The elders stayed for the spiritual part of our FHE. They were sad to be able to stay; they have no discussions today, or for that matter, all week.
I like days like today busy, busy.
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