may 2013 Labasa, Fiji

Water, bridges, sharks and weird dialect

Dear Everyone,      May 19,2013

 That Dangea fever rumor you heard about... if you get it twice you will die!! Not true.. People get it quite often here. 

So. We were on such a crazy dirt road for four hours just flying. We ended up in this little village and it was great. We were in the river for about four hours. (Walking )  It was so cold but was so great!  We had two baptisms there.

 There is this little bridge that we drove over... super sketchy... The river is the deepest river in Fiji and it is full of sharks! My heart was pumping just looking at it! ahah!!!. I'm never coming home..!!!

My Fijian is actually better than I thought. I kept twenty people entertained the other night during an interview that lasted for about an hour. They were just shooting questions at me in their weird dialect. I cannot believe I survived it.

I'm going to come home completely fluent.. I hope... 

Thanks for stopping by..

Baptism happening in the oceans of Fiji

Hola mi amigos, 

No one in Fiji has ever heard spanish before. I keep trying to talk to them but they just look at me like I am an idiot. But that okay!

This week was just Dapper. I love feeling the spirit and that is all I try to do.

I want to be the fun teacher.  Its still hard because I am not the best at the language yet. I want to be the person people ask "when are you coming back" and they just want you to come back and teach them while they are just so pumped to listen to you. I'm in love with being a missionary.

This week we had some baptisms. 

Tovou, Hali and Jonetani. They all have my sense of humor! It's the best! When we visit, they run to us and we are just so happy to see each other. It couldn't have gone any better. The spirit was so strong and it was on the beautiful Cuvu beach.

Health is good.

I received my transfer last night. I am so pumped! It's going to be such an adventure. I'm not even quite sure how im going to get there. The place is called Labasa on Vanua Levu. (the northern island). I heard its like 50 years behind the rest of Fij,  but fiji is so far behind. So like 100 years behind America.  I have no idea what it is like.  All I know is that they don'tt say their K's so that will be interesting. Instead they like grunt or something like they got the wind knoked out of them. I haven't had sugar cane yet.  I heard it really good but will murder your teeth.

 

God bless you all,

 

John stockton   aka (Elder Moulton)

Labasa, Fiji

 Aaron Moss 
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Labasa (pronounced Lam-bah-sah) is a hot, dusty sugar mill town entirely dependent upon cane which is grown in great quantities in the area. With a population of about 25,000, it's much larger than Savusavu and entirely different in nature. The population is primarilly Indian in origin and consists of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, with their distinctive turbins. The surrounding countryside, covered with cane and golden sunburnt hills also has volcanically sculpted black lava outcroppings in nearby Vunika. During cane crushing season (between June and January) keep an eye out for trucks overloaded with cane heading for the mill. Source: www.fijiguide.com