Slept in Tabwakea because we had zone conference in the
morning. I enjoy the trainings at zone conferences? Which is why it was disappointing when we couldn't really get our call to go through. They
wanted us to try and stay to see it through,
so we just ended texting an Elder who was there to give us play by
plays. During that time, we got a call from the mission nurse that the
Elders on Washington had sickly among them and that they were flying in.
So they came in today. Transfers happened, the
only changes are that a new elder is coming out to be trained here and
that my comp is now a ZL as well as me.
Wednesday October 2
A topsy turvey day. So we slept in Tabwakea again
because we had district council today. I gave the language training, it
centered on the principles of language learning, and then some very
instructional and specific language concepts for the
missionaries in the zone. We went back to Banana right after, we did
some work, we had to find where somebody had moved to (we are pretty
sure they moved because this guy got drunk and now if he goes back to
his old house then he'll get fined), but then we
got a call from one of the Elders saying that the sick Elder that just
came off Teraina was getting on the plane headed to Fiji, along with
Elder Reddy, who was supposed to leave next week. We had something to do
by the airport, so we figured we would go and
see them off. When we got there though, the sick Elder told us that he
was infact going back to the USA. That was a pretty big shock for us and
for him, because he had found out only 20 minutes before we did. The
Menzies asked us to go back to Tabwakea to
tell the rest of the missionaries that he wasn't on his way to Tarawa,
but to America. So we had to make the drive again. And then back to
teach lessons (all of them fell through though), and then back again
because we had been personally invited to a botaki.
And that went long, due to the island time culture.
Thursday October 3
An alright day. Had a split with my old companion, Elder
Geertsen. The day was mostly normal, we got out of the house early,
tracted a bit, had a lesson, but then we had to go pick Elder Geertsen's
and Elder Holman's bags that were coming from
Teraina. Meanwhile, Elder Bartley and Elder Baker were trying to call
Tarawa so Baker could meet his new companion that he is training. The
problem was that the computers were not working, but my Data equipped
phone did. So the leaders on Tarawa aksed if I
would drive down to Tabwakea to give Baker my phone. So that was like a
2 hour ordeal, which was dumb. Anyways, we came back and tracted a bit
again, and then had a lesson and dinner. At the dinner we had lobster
and octopus, pretty good.
Friday October 4
Not the most exciting day. Elder Geertsen was with me
early in the morning, but we switched back to normal when we drove down
to Tabwakea to do needs. So we took out the garbage and stuff, then we
came back to Banana and started getting some
stuff down, like confirming dinner and finding less active members, the
while deal. Then we came back and did a long weekly planning session,
it was longer than usual because we didn't just go over investigators
and what not but since we're Zone Leaders, we
went over the needs of the missionaries as well. We had to fill out
companion exchange reports, which took a while. We left the house again
after that, and we got some good potential investigators, but soon my
stomach started feeling odd and we had to retreat
back to the house. So I was tied up with bekanako for about an hour,
and then we went back out, then came back for about an hour, and then
went to dinner.
Saturday October 5
An okay day, some more problems with Bekanako to start
the day, but I solved that by not eating anything. We had a lesson in
the morning with some newer people which was refreshing. Usually we have
lessons with people that are essentially ready
for baptism, but they are held back by marriage papers or something. We
figured out a little through the day that our house and bathroom key
was missing from our key chain, so we had to take a while to track them
down. We eventually found the house key, but
the bathroom key is missing still. Elder Bartley really had to go, so
we had to break into the bathroom. Thanks dad for the pocket knife
(pocket knives are called 'te waro' here, translating to mantis
shrimp).
Sunday October 6
We slept in Tabwakea last night because early in the
morning to watch General Conference live at a members house at 6 in the
morning. The rest of the day was good, we gave a couple lessons. We ate
so much at dinner that we almost threw up. We
had a missionary fireside at night, and the speaker we asked to come
didn't show up. So ya boy Elder Cubby had to give a 15 minute talk about
the Atonement of Jesus Christ. I mean I had a lot to say, but the talk
was less than organized.
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