We visited the Lami wards today with the message "The institute is for you." We met a girl today in the YSA Sunday School Class who is a clinical social worker. We had never seen her before so our guess is that she has been less active. She says she will come to institute. Bishop Balenacegi's wife taught the lesson. She told us that the mothers in their ward are worried for their children when they come to institute. We told her that we make the boys walk them home, we take them to the bus stop, or we drive them home. We hope she tells the other mothers. As a side note, she was upset that we had not brought schedules, so Scott left class drove the 15 minutes back to the institute, got our schedules, and made it back before the class was over.
We had so much fun visiting with the YSAs afterward. We wish we could have the same experience with the YSAs in the ward that speaks Fijian, but for some reason even though they all know English, it does not turn out so well.
We also visited Sister McGoon today as we were about half way to her house. We had taken an envelop of money from some of the senior missionaries to the funeral, but we soon realized that giving it to her then was a bad idea so we took it out today. She is staying at her daughter's home for now. When I hugged her and told her how sorry we were, she just grabbed hold of me and sobbed. She said that she had done alright until most of the family had left to go home, and now she is feeling the loss. We were glad to be able to talk of Brother McGoon and ease a little of the sorrow. We had a lovely visit with her and her son who lives in Belfast, Ireland.
Fijian are so generous. They gave us two of the only three chairs in the room; Sister McGoon sat in the other one. They also fed us lemon cake and punch. They did not have any, just us. Sister McGoon is a fabulous woman and it is a privilege to know her.
Scott and Elder Wells went home teaching while Sister Wells and I sat in our flat and visited. They are wonderful friends.
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