That's holy water huh?

Yesterday we went in to a tuna canning factory to ask some questions about labor, wages and work ethics. We talked to an employee for a while, who was selling food in a little trade store during his off hours. It went so well we got most of our questions answered by this one man. One funny thing that happened was, we were asking what he called a soda, the only word we knew was "loliwara" so Matt says "em holiwara a" of course the man just stops and as soon as I realize that I said holy water instead of soda everyone starts laughing (there were plenty of people standing around watching and listening). We left there and decided to head down to a couple markets and see if we could find some bananas, to no avail. We did find a little roadside market cooking something so we stopped and bought some fresh yellow fin tuna and potatoes, freshly grilled. It was a very good lunch.
Today we will be walking over to our nearest neighbor to "tok sori" (tell them we are sorry and give a small gift of food to the family), the family just lost their dad who died after being sick for the last year. Their mournful cries carried on throughout the night. Once again the reality of life without Christ is hitting us. We live amongst a people hopelessly lost in animistic beliefs and religious practices. The only way they will ever be freed from the lies they believe is for someone to tell them the Good News.

Here is a picture of our lunch from the little market.