Not actually a super eventful week. Few highlights. On Monday we had
this thing called Kain Utu (by interpretation from the family) which is
the Kiribati version of family home evening, which is actually just a
big party. We held it at our house/the chapel,
and people didn't really leave until 11 o'clock, so we didn't get as
much sleep that night. During the week, the work was quite slow.
Everyone in Tabontebike was building a mwaneaba all day every day, so we
didn't have access to them. And the next city over,
Taniau, some old dude died and someone had an anniversary, so they were
all at a botaki for the entire week as well. So we did a lot of
studying to say the least. Elder Wright got pretty frustrated a couple
times because of the slow work, he just came off
the best area in the mission. We figured out through tracting that
about 65-70% of Tabontebike is just less active members, so our efforts
are kinda focused on that right now. We are also trying to figure out
how to get the active members excited about the
church again, most of them have kind of gotten tired of the grind. So
we decided to try to get them working towards something again, so we're
gonna start teaching and English Class and a Temple class. We also
taught about family history on Sunday. We're also
just trying to get the people to start liking missionaries again, so
we've been playing a lot of cards, then sharing spiritual thoughts.
Which reminds me that I probably should share a spiritual thought.
So I'm still pretty bad at talking to people, so I don't contribute a
lot in conversations. But now that I think of it, I think teaching about
the temple and Family history were both my
ideas, and it seems like they might work pretty well. And I thought of
both of those during my personal study. I think that it is true that
despite our weaknesses and flaws, if we work hard in the way that the
Lord wants, He will bless us. He truly provides
us with a way to follow His commandments.
That's all for right now I suppose, I'm doing great
I tangiringkami
Elder Cubby
When he emails, we know he is online and can respond to questions. Here is more information from our online conversations...
Ben asked if he plays poker?
I
play no poker, but they do play an advanced version of sorry here. Also
I was thinking of something you wanted
to know all week, and I thought you would be interested in the fact
that the bugs here are insanely fast. Like probably four or five times
as fast. It is a rare occasion that I can actually kill a mosquito, and I
don't think I've gotten any flies. The spiders
are huge and somehow can predict when I am about to swat at them. I
just wonder if you could catch the flies here like you could back home
what is a mwaneaba?
It's basically a permanent tent I guess. They use coconut trees for
beams, and some random sticks that they find in the Forest. They tie
everything together which is why I'm assuming it takes so long. The
roofs are just leaves basically, but really good
leaves I guess. The people use them for parties and just chilling
basically.
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| A small example. I think that's him in there |
are the spiders big? are they web makers?
They are both, but both are big. I think the wandering ones might
eat the smaller lizards. There are geckos and I think some sort of small
skink here
How is the bathroom? And what does the email subject mean?
We have a toilet, bucket flush system. We ate canned corned beef
and ramen (their instant noodles are actually way better, the YUM YUM
brand comes with veggie oil to put in it) and that's what I called it.
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