How to fish in Fiji

I wanted to tell you a true fish story. We had gone out to eat [all couple missionaries] and had this great deep fried fish. I knew that the kids would just love these fish teeth. How would you like to have dinner with all of these fried fish eyes [4eyes= 2 fish] looking at you all of the time?? We had a great meal and took the left overs to President Buhn and his wife. They are in the temple presidency. Sr. Buhn is Fijian and just could hardly wait to eat the fish-heads -eyes and all, brains , too] Br. Buhn is indie and he just loved the tails-even the fins!!
The sea creature below is a mud crab=and he is fighting mad. That is why his giant claws are both tied up. He can pinch your fingers off and then he will try to munch on the them for lunch!!
We have a favorite place for fish and chips [french fries] and they also sell all kinds of fresh fish. These are called parrot fish. Aren't they beauttifuall??

Now I have a sad true fish story from Taveuni island that happened while we were there on our little vacation while the temple was closed for cleaning. As our boat approached the tiny dock on the island, which is just alarge block of concreate, we saw a woman fishing. The tide was out and people will walk on the exposed ocean floor and find crabs, clams and mussles with heir feet and will put them in string bags and take them home to cook for dinner. The crabs they must catch carefully and always tie up their giant claws to keep their fingers!!! But this woman was in the deep water now up to her waist. We had a taxi driver [who is LDS] and we asked him just what was she doing, since she was in such deep water. He said she was fishing. OH, we said and then we went on to play golf-not me though. That was the end of the story we thought. Not so it seems. Now the terrible part. Are you ready? Don't eat dinner before I tell you this gross true story, OK? OK? We went to the island to play golf one week and another set of temple missionaries went the next week. So now the Howards told me more of the story. The taxi driver told them to tell us that the woman had not been seen since we had seen her fishing when our boat had docked. They fill she is dead and was eatten by the sharks that are in the waters allaround the island. Then another friend askeed me this queation. Do you know how they fish in Fiji? No I said. Well they tie a string around their waists and then tie small screen bags to the rope on their waist. The fish come in schools = very large schools of fish all the same size. They were eggs too at the same time, so they are growing all at the same time, too. After they catch the fish in a small net they just bite off the fishes head and put the body in a little bag and just lets the head sink into the water. Yes you heard right=bite off the heads.!! Into each bag they will stuff ans many little fish as they can. Then they just fill up another bag and start over again. Now all around them are fish heads and fish blood. All around them. Do you know the word greed? It means you want too much or something that is not yours. So here is what people think happened. The old lady stayed to late out in the deep water and the tide started to come back in and she was trapped. The smell of the blood was just too great and the water started to get deeper so fast that maybe she fell and the weight of the fish around her waist was too much and she just died-right there. Or the smell of blood brought more fish and finally the sharks. Or the sharks came and ate at her knees and she died. So her body was never found. Just go back to the pics of my fish dinner and think of those fish as sharks and how big their teeth really are. Greed. We just don't know what really happened, but the body was never found and skin divers come from all over the world to see these great big sharks. Greed. Greed. All our love. We are having fish for dinner. How about you? LOVE NONNIE