At the first of our mission, we helped the Chief clear grass off his field, and his little daughter helped us for over an hour with a big smile and without complaint. A while ago, her mother, who is a nonmember, asked the Sisters to teach Nomai. They did, and her baptism was Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015. Her brother Manasa Vunibola baptized her. He is one of our favorite Returned Missionaries--Young Men's President, Young Adult Leader, & Mission Prep teacher . 

Manasa Vunibola, Sister Fiu, Nomai, Sister Aumua, Mother.

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Good food to celebrate afterwards including banana bread made from our tiny bananas described below:

Our last batch of bananas grew straight up instead of over.

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Definitely not the correct way to grow. Notice the scroll in the middle. This is how banana leave form. When they are new, they are beautiful and perfect. As they are blown hard in the wind, they get shredded.

When the bananas got too heavy, they fell off the tree. We were surprised and happy that they were finally able to ripen. They are perfect and so sweet! That's where we got the "hand of bananas" we sent earlier. We have eaten them and used them in smoothies.It took 21 of these tiny finger-sized bananas to make 2 batches of banana bread.