Everyday Life

 This is a picture of someone's house.  Notice the little coverings with flowers.  That is someone's grave or several peoples graves.  We have only seen one cemetery.  Most people just bury their family in the yard and put little bottles or flowers around.

This is a roadside fish store.  They fan the flies away waiting for someone to purchase the fish.

This is their ambulance.  It seems to always be going.  There is no charge from what we understand because they have socialized medicine.  You do need to bring your own food and bedding to the hospital.  This ambulance had its lights flashing, horn honking and passed us.  Then it it stopped. The driver was buying fish as we passed it.  Then later it came again with the lights flashing.  We weren't sure if they needed to pick up some food on the way or the fish needed a ride to the hospital.

Track Meet

 The school had a track meet.  They compete with each other and then the winners go on to compete later with other schools.  The students were divided into teams called houses. Each House took the name of a Prophet. Each House made a large flag and did a special March onto the field. They then competed in various track events.

The houses and brooms reminded us of another school.  Hogwarts doesn't have anything over on these guys.

Sight Seeing

We went for a ride to Buota and looked over at the Island of Abatao.  Across the channel is a ship building company.  The picture second row down on the left is a motel room that you can rent and sleep in over the ocean.  This is also seen in the bottom picture on the left.

These are a couple more LDS Churches on the island.  The first one is all open except for the classrooms.  The second one is one of the newest buildings on the island.  We heard that the rock for the sea wall had to all be shipped in, which made the cost extremely high.

Farewell

Elder Taniela Wakolo was an area seventy.  He received a mission call to Little Rock, Arkansas were he will be the new mission president.  He said that the church has made him better.  "Not better than you, but better than I was."

Bruce Yerman came to visit from New Zealand.  He is like the Superintendent over the Church schools in the South Pacific.  It was nice to see a writing workshop taught from the Ensign.  They use the teachings of Christ as a guide to teach by. He also brought us gifts of chocolate, hot pads and a rolling pin that we couldn't find on the island.

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This is a fish delivery to the school.