Things we might need??

Wendy is trying to find
just the perfect dress to match my coat.

not quite sure if this is the new me back in Victoria??

This pot has about a 24 " diameter so when you need a pot to cook for a hundred or more - this is it.

not sure whether to put some money in Gold or Vanilla??

This is a great machine for the sugar cane industry although it will put many people out of work.  They usually cut cane by hand with a machete so I'm sure the farmers are excited to see one of these arrive on the Island. The farmers are getting together to buy a few more.  

This is a 100,000 Liter cement water tank.  The school collects water off the roof of the buildings when it rains.  This is their only source of water.  Right now is is a dry period and they have to have water trucked in.  

how can you make a good sandwich without some peanut butter and grape jelly.  Well, you can't so you buy plenty of this.  

Village life

These two young people were sounding the alarm that church ( Methodist )was about to start.  They do this three times before the meeting actually starts in the village.  You could hear it from a long way off - once they stopped you could see people coming out of their homes and walking towards the church.  It was a neat sight.

This boy really knew how to use his eye brows to say things - he is a cute kid

One of our day trips was to visit a Chief of the village to get his blessing on a project.   The village held a Kava Ceremony in our honor and gave us time to present to the Chief a plan for our partnership to help his village.  Very interesting ceremony and experience.  It is very hard to sit like these men for 2 hours - very hard

This is the Chief's home  located on a small island just 1 km from the shore. we waited until high tide to be able to get to it by boat.

This video will give you an idea of how small the island is,  but it is the home of the Chief and the Chief Minister for the village.  We had to satisfy the Chief Minister as well.

Canada Day & July 4th

The Keyes from Victoria joined us at the home of Elder & Sister Johannson, Elder Johannson is the area 70 and Service Centre manager here in Fiji.  Sister Johannson's father came from Canada and their son standing next to me just returned from the Vancouver Canada mission.  We had a great evening together for a Canada Day Party..

Wendy and I took a long walk Saturday morning and passed by the Home and offices of the President of Fiji.  There is a guard house as well as an honor guard that works in 2 hour shifts.  They stand at attention for 2 hours and can't talk to you or move.  The grounds are beautiful and you look out to the ocean from this point, very beautiful.

The city kids here are very connected to technology.  Cute kid, got to love the hair

one of our projects is providing material and supplies to village dispensaries so the village nurse can provide early medical help to those in need.

we traveled to 4 villages and provided needed supplies and material for the nurses so they are able to do their jobs and help the families in the village.

The villages build a dispensary for the nurses to work out of.  This was an example of a common dispensary

As we travel to the villages we like to take a tennis ball for the kids to play with.  We had fun playing catch with a group of boys in this village.  We need to find a sponsor - tennis balls are expensive here.  We are going thru a bunch.  hehe

another happy village,  some of the dispensaries are obviously smaller than others.  

This nurse was very organized and had a very nice dispensary.

Wendy and I visiting with the Chief of one of the villages we donated material to.  They were very appreciative and had a ceremony to thank us for the generous donation.

Another well appointed dispensary for the village nurse, this one was larger than most and the village is very proud of their dispensary because they know it is where they can get medical help.