Saturday, January 24, 2009

Hi juST A FEW PICS OF THE SUPPLIES WE HAVE SENT TO THE WEST AND A NOTE OF WHAT WE NEED. In the first pic are huge boxes of matches and here cheap soap is sold in these huge long bars below. Next we bought 12 bags of rice at 22# each. Next rice 12 bags @
22# each . Sugar 10 bags at 2 k each. And we put our food on tables in case of rats. The other side of the school has rats!!




The extra clothing was not there yet, but this is what we got. 80 pairs of shoes. 60 pairs of underwear [used ,clean & from Austtralia] shoes were new, 50 clean shirts good enough for church. On some paperwork the first thing asked for were white shirts and ties. I just broke our hearts readings all of this. They are cold in Rackiracki and in the Ba -western side. I contracted for 50 covers that were sheets or blankets [Australia again] They need tools to dig. So we boought 3o pitch forks {British made] and will send one per village, until we can get more. Oh yes tons of top ramin noodles and huge bags of flour. LDS huminatarian gave 3 days of food to a huge number of people not all church though. This stuff is LDS only. SLC is authorizing 35,000 dollars food for the island. 3 mon per family. Their crops hopefull will start by then. All ground food is ruined and the ground is spoiling.[molding because it is not draining yet] =digging forks local name. Here I am in the bales of bed linens choosing heavy covers. No air I smelled like 2 pigs. Total cost was1,300 bucks fijian. You could feel the spirit telling me "their cold" and I just bought more bedding . We are going to the west today ,sunday to deliver these suplies to the northern Ba region. There are no more cars avaiable because their is a missionary conference the next few days and we are off work at the temple. I am working on a article on Fiji and will add the pics of the flood and our new angel Moroni. Your money will not be a tax deduction, if you need that just make the money s payable to Fiji in your fast offerings. It will take a while to get moneys for other things because we are working with other teams and must cooridinate [sp]so we are doing this ourselves as missionaries. We have used every penny you sent for painting the school in Singatoka for these supplies and the extra 1,000. Thank you all for your good hearts and faith. POresident Wooley is giving us the gas card to pay for fuel. Pres. Nelson was a little miffed. It is his time to go home -they are ready, too!! We will send more pics and keep you up. Bulla Vinaka Mom and Dad
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