Cikinovo

It was a great week since last Monday.

We were able to do some service for one of our investigators named Aliki we have been working with for a while. He wanted us to help him clean out an old house he inherited so we gladly helped him out. It was in pretty rough shape but about 10 kids from the village who were all playing together saw us and all came in and helped which made the work go so much faster. At one point I was picking up an old box spring, and one of the kids yelled, "Cikinovo! Cikinovo! Rua Rua! Ka Levu!" I wasn't 100% sure what Cikinovo meant but then I was like yeah that probably means centipede so I dropped it, and Elda Jonathan came out of nowhere with some metal pipe and the dude came over with a chunk of wood and they made quick work of them and we went back on working. Fun stuff. We have been trying to get him to church but he hasn't come yet which is too bad but we keep trying.

Also here's the story of how I almost had to sleep in a village overnight. So we had an appointment with one dude who had a lot of Q's for us and we already had to reschedule because of the fake cyclone last week, so we were determined to make it this week. We parked the truck offsite and crossed 2 bridges with knee high water that were pretty strong. Well, after our appt we went to the first bridge and it was chest high so we couldn't really go for it so we said some prayers and then chilled at a member's house who was going to let us sleep there if we had to. Well at about 9:30 the water died down enough that we could cross but it was still way strong, so some Fijian man pretty much carried me across haha. Good times though we just had to walk through the jungle in the pitch black in the rain which was awesome.

It's been fun here though. Elda Jonathan is coming up on his 6 month mark in Naita which mean he might be leaving tomorrow. But change is okay just more chances to grow. Love you all

Elda G

(sorry, no pics this week.  Sam says the computer has a virus so he didn't want to put his SD card into it)