Some have asked about the practical details of how we are living. For food, we have a pretty light breakfast and lunch in our hotel room usually consisting of peanut butter and jelly, crackers, fruit, and ramen noodles. We have become pretty creative with what we can prepare with only a hot water kettle. For dinners we meet with the whole team at one of two restaurants here in town. We have been pretty lucky with food we are used to which has included baked fish, fish and chips, Chinese food, and even pizza! Angie has been amazing to me as she has done all our laundry in the bathroom sink and then hangs the laundry on the ceiling of our hotel room. What a woman! The weather has been pretty mild and mostly overcast and rainy. All in all, not bad living conditions.
Sam and I took a bus trip to downtown Nadi on Tuesday to hunt down a new power cord for our laptop, which had burned out on the higher currency. It was a memorable experience traveling through the town and country villages together by bus and turned out to be quite a scavenger hunt once we got into town as we kept getting referred by one store to another store to another store in search of our part.
We have also met part of the reality of living here as a couple people in our team have contracted scabies. It can be pretty contagious, so we are praying that our family will be able to avoid that.
Most of our team will be leaving for one of the outer islands this weekend for two weeks to live in one of the remote villages there. Our family will instead be traveling to the south side of Fiji to take a break for a few days. We will then meet up with our team leaders in Suva on Thursday. It will just be the six of us for a week and a half and we will be helping them lead a youth conference and a women’s conference as well as laying the ground work for when the rest of the team rejoins us on November 6th. From what we can tell now, our work in Suva will include orphanages, hospitals, and single mothers’ home.
We are currently right about at our halfway point for our time in Fiji with four more weeks to go! Since this is the last entry from Lautoka, I have included some pictures of the city below as well as more pictures of our ministry times.
God bless!
An outdoor market in Lautoka
One of the main streets in downtown Lautoka
As is probably obvious, the fish market
One of the shops advertising Diwali, an Indian holiday that is celebrated this Saturday the 21st
One of my favorite places, The Hot Bread Kitchen. Mmmm, mutton pies!
With our team and some of the students at our after-school program
Sam and friends at the disabled school
Angie and friends at the disabled school
Katie, Kuma, and Yeji
Angie and Kuma, a very sweet deaf girl at the disabled school
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Thanks for taking time to write and send pics, Ben. We miss you guys and I am praying for you. We look forward to seeing you when you return. Include me on your weekly updates if you can.
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