Elder Tay from Hawaii & Elder King from Bountiful

airport in nadi

our flat

our broom(no vacuums in Fiji)

the LDS temple in Suva

temple grounds and mission and temple presidency quarters

our landlord Suraj

Our water filters

Water fall

houses are bright colors

Bus Stop

Garbage collection - garbage is placed on raised platforms to keep wild animals from getting to it.

school children

Suva Bay

After 4 days in NZ, we arrive in Nadi, FJ and are greeted by the 'airport elders' who help all arriving missionaries: through customs, getting your baggage, and finding the 'other' part of the airport where we caught a flight to Nausori Airport near Suva.  Our 'flat'. Our landlord.  Our broom.  The temple.  The surrounding area to the north or out in the country.

Premium Economy!

Nice accommodations on the way to Auckland for more training.  Nice accommodations in Auckland too.  Some views from our 14th floor balcony.  The Church Office Building in Auckland.

Well, the long wait is finally over.  We're off to the airport in the Bike Bus.  Hope it makes it.  It made it!  Sad to leave the kids, especially the little ones.  Grandma is sad.  She already misses everyone.

The obligatory Map Photo

This map is in a large hall just past where you enter the MTC and all of the missionaries have this photo taken. So we did too!

Our Distric at the MTC

We just finished our first week at the MTC!  Wow, what a week.  We have been taught, trained, role played, critiqued and examined; and we are exhausted   We have nearly froze to death running from building to building in the sub zero temperatures.  It was minus 7 yesterday morning.  The senior missionaries are all wonderful.  They come from all over the US and Canada, and are going all over the US and all over the world.  For most of us, it is our first senior mission but for some it is their second, third and even fourth.  In our group of 102, they range in age from 55 to 79, and they are going to: New York, Wisconsin, California, Florida, Nevada(a cattle ranch!), Arizona, Tennessee, Washington, Georgia, District of Columbia, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Kentucky, Oregon, Missouri, Hawaii  Iowa, Cambodia, Spain, Japan, Indonesia, Germany, China, Mongolia, Thailand, Philippines, Baltic, Uruguay, Madagascar, Czechoslovakia, Uganda, Burma, South Africa, Jamaica, Uganda and Fiji!