A solid day I suppose. It started with our shower not
working in our house, along with the rest of our water. After that the
Elders going to Washington came with the Menzies to have us drive them
to the airport. So usually when we don't have
water, we would just tell Elder Menzie and he would fix it, but he went
to Washington, so me and Bartley had to go talk to the people who do
something with water and the government. And on top of that, right when
the Elders going to Washington were about to
get on the plane, my old companion, Elder Geertsen, asked for my watch,
because they had no other way to keep time. So I also got a new watch
today. We finally had a solid amount of lessons set up for today. A
couple fell through, but we gave one on Ether
12 and how we have to excersize and work our faith to get the miracles
we need in life. We made some new friends in the branch as well at
dinner, and we ate a ton.
Wednesday September 18
Day started as usual. Woke up and did the push up sit up
lab. I studied this book called Teaching in the Savior's Way. It's
pretty good and caused some good introspective thinking. We had district
council as well today. We got some comments
from the senior couple that our district appeared kind of sloppy, so I
had to try and give instruction to the district, which I didn't enjoy
very much. We had three lessons planned for today, but all of them fell
through. It's okay because we just contacted
as we went. We also found some members and less active members, which
is always fun I guess.
Thursday September 19
I decided to turn up the work outs today, so I did some
running and sprints. I'm a little restless now that we sit in the car to
travel. The rest of the day went well. Studies were good, per the
usual. In opposition of yesterday, all our scheduled
lessons went through, and more. So there is a couple that the previous
Elders were teaching, but when we went to find them, the wife had moved
because of an argument or something. So we went about diligently today
to try and figure out where she lived so
we could give a referral, but lo and behold, she was there with her
husband. We were a little more than mildly surprised, but not too
surprised. We had a couple more lessons after that. We also saw a
helicopter today, which was also mildly amusing (Becky mom
always gets on me for not writing what I do during the day, so I'm just
writing down random events). On our way to dinner, which is within
walking distance of out house, we kicked the crabs that we came across. I
don't like them because the dig holes and make
the back roads hard to drive on.
Today we taught a lesson to a 9 year old girl whose
grandma wanted us to lesson with her. I told her that Jojo would be cool
to come and marry her. But also we taught the simple and
straightforward Restoration lesson ever. It was so simple,
we wrote on a piece of paper. It went almost exactly like this: Jesus
built his church. Jesus's church fell. Then His church wasn't on earth.
Then Joseph Smith received a vision. Then there was His church. And now
there is a living prophet. It's so simple.
Sometimes we get wrapped up in complex things, but if we can get our
brains around these small things, then everything will be all right.
Friday September 20
Another average day I would say. After studies and what
not, we had to go to the other missionaries' house to take their garbage
to the dump. We also had to haul some bikes from London etc., etc.,
boring stuff. It also came that time of week
to weekly plan, which I will be the first to say it is needed and
effective, but it is less than thrilling. After that we went hunting
down people that which did not have a time with us. During that time, a
saw a kid with the worst hand, foot and mouth disease
I have ever seen with my two eyes. We also sniffed out a previous
person being taught by Elders before us, who we have been looking for
since we got here. Actually we sniffed out two. One of them told us that
Elders Strauss and Lenthe were his two best friends,
and then asked us why he should trust us. The question went unanswered,
because I figured it was rhetorical, but he seemed to like us by the
time we left his gazebo.
Saturday September 21
Another joyous day in the village of Banana. I bought
some eggs yesterday, but during the night, a rat was messing with them.
The good news is that for the most part, rats cannot gey through egg
shells. Bad news is that the lucky rat managed
to push one of them off the counter. So I didn't get as good as a
workout because I had to clean up egg. I'm sure mom woulda spanked Sam
pretty good for that one. The rest of the day was pretty average. We did
learn some cool stuff about chopping coconuts
though. Apparently if you split 1000 coconuts, it usually turns about
to be $600 (AUD don't get too excited). And then we met this one dude
who turns over about 700-800 a week. That is definitely enough for
Kiribati. Dinner was pretty exciting, we had mantis
shrimp for dinner, which is essentially like lobster, but better. We
also brought ice cream for the family, and by the way they acted you'd
think that we brought edible gold. Anyways, dinner ended and we got a
phone call from the sisters saying that they locked
their keys inside of their house. So we had to make the drive all the
way there and all the way back. And then they asked us to buy bread for
them on our way back, I didn't do it, a little bit because I wanted to
get back on time, and a little bit out of spite.
Sunday September 22
Good day, typical Sunday I suppose. More people were at
church this week, but none of our investigators came. After church, we
taught the Tuan te Mauri (the law of health ie the Word of Wisdom) to
this guy and he seemed pretty excited. He was
also a bit confused as to why nobody had ever told him about it before.
We brought the sacrament to our old lady friends, which is never
boring. It reminds me of when me and Cole or me and Ben would bring the
sacrament around. But instead of being offered
candy we get offered eel. Our dinner tonight was pretty good as well,
they made this stuff called tuei (suei of you're a northerner) which is
made out of pandanus fruit and coconut milk. It tasted like something
from America but I couldn't quite but my finger
on it.
I tangiringkami ni kabane
Elder Cubby
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| I think that damage is from the rat |
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| Crabs that cause potholes |
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| A beautiful sight. The advantage of being on an island closer to Hawaii (1300 miles) |
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