Last Saturday we committed ourselves to go visiting. We took the Operation Lost Sheep list to Nameeta Kumar. She is a returned missionary whom we helped to get her PEF Loan. She kept the list and brought it back to us Sunday. She found quite a few for us.

     We also visited Brother Nasova. His daughter is getting married on April 29. He asked me to make a chocolate cake with fudge frosting like the one I made him for his birthday. That was a compliment. I told him I would make one for the extra guests if he would get someone else to make the fancy wedding cake. We had a great visit with him.

     When we first arrived here, Elder Read introduced us to Brother Narayan’s family who live high in the mountains. We have been there a few times. (It is the house where Rex stepped on the huge frog.) They have not been coming to church for a couple months, and we went to check on them. We had a great visit with them and let them know the branch would pay their bus fare to come to church the first Sunday of each month, which would be the next day. Before we left, we asked if there was anything we could do for them. They hesitated, then asked for a blessing for their daughter who had been suffering with bad sore throat. Rex gave a beautiful blessing. That made the whole day feel worth it. We aren't doing anything huge on this mission. We are just here to help the one – one person at a time. We were excited the next day when the Narayans came to church. In priesthood, Elder’s president Reo highlighted Brother Narayan. The lesson was on testimonies. Brother Narayan is a convert, and Brother Reo went with the missionaries to teach him. He asked Narayan to tell the story of how he got his testimony. He told the story then bore a beautiful testimony. 

Another Fiji First - Rex Wrote : When we were coming back from the Narayan’s, we saw something that could only happen in Fiji.  There were twenty to thirty prisoners in a chain gang -minus the chains- dressed in dirty ugly jumpsuits, working on the side of the road. Each of the prisoners had a three-foot long knife chopping down the grass in the ditch. As we passed just a few feet from them, they raised their weapons high in the air and waved them at us. I was afraid they were going to hijack our truck. They had only one guard standing in the middle of them with no weapon in sight.  As we got past, I thought, “Whew, we’re safe.” Then I thought, “They must not be convicted of anything very serious, or they wouldn’t turn them loose with those knives! If they wanted to escape, all they would have to do is jump the guard. It would not be hard.” About a mile farther down the road, we saw this road sign that should have been posted on the road ahead of seeing the Chain Gang. It was a big exclamation mark.

It means other danger.