Sunday in Fiji

 We were able to go to church while we were in Fiji. It was such a neat experience, and we can't wait to go again. Cris was such a good sport and wore a sulu to church. Most of the men in Fiji wear them to church services or on special days. We saw several men with multicolored, and floral ones. Cris said he didn't mind it, it gave him a nice breeze. :)

 This was the church building we visited. It was dedicated in the 80's sometime. It's not very big, it had a kitchen in it, bathroom, a small room that was the branch Presidents office and also doubled as the primary room, and the chapel that also was used for the Sunday school room. We had a great time. My parents had warned us before had that we may be called out in the middle of sacrament to give a talk. I went somewhat prepared, but luckily we were only asked to bear our testimonies. We decided that we should do our sacrament meetings "Fiji style". There were 3 speakers and they only spoke for about 2-5 minutes each. Which made for a really quick sacrament meeting. :)

 These are the kids that I taught Primary to. My mom hard also warned me that I may be handed the Primary manual, which I was. They were great bunch of kids. They usually have more kids in their primary but it was a rainy day which made it so not many people were there.

 After church was over we were invited to eat lunch at the church with the Branch President's family and friends. I will fully admit, it was hard to eat what they feed us. We had a ramen noodle with muscles type food, whole crabs, fresh muscles, and dalo. Dalo was the hardest for me to swallow. It's a root type vegetable, like a potato, but it was very dry, thick,and had no flavor. It would have been much easier to eat if it had some kind of sauce to eat with it.

After we ate Cris had some gum that we passed around to all the kids. They were in heaven!! The kids also liked watching all the movies we had on our phones of our kids. I pulled out my Ipad and started the movie Frozen for them while we visited with the adults. Those kids sat still for the whole movie and didn't budge for anything! If we would have had any other movies downloaded we would have been there all day, and night!

 I loved the spirit we felt when we were there and hope to be able to go back soon! These people are awesome, and hold a special place in my heart, I wanted to take all these kids home with us.