A Man is Like a Horse (Cubby letter 01/21/2019)

So great week this week. We don't have to work the sister's area anymore,  so we decided to concentrate on just the North end of the island this week. It's a lot of biking everyday. Some tourists came and stayed in the hotel with us, so we were  able to figure out how long the island is on some guys iPhone X. Turns out the place we bike to just about everyday is 13 miles away, making it so we usually bike about 26 miles round trip everyday.  Pretty neat stuff.  Other things of note,  we started opening up a new city,  Takarano,  it hasn't had elders in a while,  there's only one family there that are members,  and they do church by themselves. We ate rabono, or eel,  which was interesting. The bekanako hasn't stopped since then. We got a text from the Zone Leaders saying that we weren't coming for Zone conference. So we think we're both staying on Abaiang,  so it looks like Elder Wright will be my companion for 3 transfers,  which almost never happens. We just got back from boating to a small islet,  which was alright. We also saw a guy without a nose  on the road this week,  which was slightly shocking. No I did not take a picture. 

Anyways for a spiritual thought,  we were 1 Nephi chapter 2 with an investigator, and we read the part that basically explains that Laman and Lemuel thought Lehi was a huge idiot (it actually uses the word for idiot in the Kiribati version). They complained against him for hit,  because they thought journeying in the wilderness was too hard. But Nephi took a different approach and prayed about it. Today,  we also have a prophet,  same as Lehi. And sometimes he might ask is to did some crazy stuff (using full name of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints?) And rather than think he's crazy, we should pray about it,  or at least reason through it in our minds,  and not be afraid of the results. Anyways,  I'm not sure if that makes sense,  the way I would say it in Kiribati is more articulate some how. 

I'm doing great,   I tangirngkami

Elder Cubby

 

 

Why didn't he have a nose?

 

we talked to some people about it and I think he has leprosy

 

What was at the islet?

 

we just checked it out and fished on the way back

 

The rest of our conversation was about Borat and Richland Football and who will win, Sam or Cubby, when they wrestle again.