Beauty and Waiting

Sunday

This Sunday we went to the Anglican Church.     Boy, can those people sing!!!  One of many things we could learn from other cultures.  The sermon was in Bislama.  It’s a good thing Chantal sends the readings because the sermon was based on those scriptures and we had half a chance of picking up the gist of the sermon.  All the rest was in English and just like home. Lovely. It looked like most of Luganville was in that church.  After, the priest asked us to be in the receiving line to shake everyone’s hand.  There must have been 300 or 400 people there!  That is a lot of hand shaking.   I wore my flip flops and took them off as soon as I sat down so that I would fit in with the dress code. ( I knew you were worried about my being properly dressed. )  As an aside, last week we went to the Seventh Day Adventist Church but they were long on lessons (in Bislama) and short on worship.  In their favor,  they don’t eat turtles, fruit bats, endemic pigeons or coconut crabs!   No photos of the church but what you would see is a huge concrete building with corrugated metal roof and the altar area  beautifully adorned with local flowers, wood and altar cloths.  The crude building somehow made the adornments seem even more beautiful!  There were huge numbers of children outside the church attending Sunday School.  I loved it when they sang “Father Abraham” just like our kids (but louder and with more gusto).  Altogether a heartwarming morning.

Monday and Tuesday

So here we sit waiting for our replacement motor parts to be released from customs.  Getting it here from California and getting it out of customs are two different things.  This is to fix the big motor for Rubber Ducky (dinghy).  The parts for the little motor arrived from NZ in a short week.  Go figure.   At least I have time to work on our blog.  Usually I am too busy having fun. 

 Sheryl rinsing off in fresh water coming out of beach