In Nakawakawa, on our way to Pita's house, we saw an actual Tarzan vine handing over the road. It looked big and strong enough to hold a truck!  Okay, maybe not a truck, but a person could definitely swing on it!

Pita was the only member when he moved home to Nakawakawa. He taught his friends and  had missionaries come teach and baptize them. They had church meetings in his house.

When there were too many members, they moved to a relative's home right by the community center. He got called out on the carpet at a village meeting and chastised for bringing another religion into his village. That is why he had to build a chapel on his own land. The church helped pay for supplies. Members split their own lumber and did all the labor.

Pita's family in the chapel

The Sunday we were there, the truck was in Savusavu that usually brought members to church from the village down by the ocean. Church was postponed an hour while they walked. It's a far uphill climb.

I miss my grandchildren, but I love to be surrounded by sweet ones here in Fiji.

It gets dark here at 6 PM making it a long night for the Nakawakawa Elders who have no electricity. Rex hung a flashlight from the ceiling so this Elder could see to cook us the 3 chickens we had brought to share with them. They seldom get meat, since they don't have a fridge. Mostly they live on cassava and produce grown there. They say they eat lots of leaves.

The Elders gave us their flat with the mosquito netting, and they slept in the church. This is my twin sized blanket I was given here. I will be bringing it home.

After losing his first baby son, Pita was blessed in his Patriarchal Blessing that he would have a "beautiful daughter."

They love it when Rex loses in a game, lets out a loud moan, and pulls this face!

These trees on the mountain look as if they were sculptured to look like letters.

This bull walked across the road right in front of us. It looks blurry through our dusty windshield, but it was huge with horns. Notice the cement drain gutter on the side of the road It seems very dangerous with nowhere to pull off the road in an emergency. It is wide and deep enough for a cow to almost hide in. This big boy jumped it in one easy bound.