Tuesday October 15
Today we woke up got into our pday clothes and went to a
service we had scheduled. We chopped coconuts. As is the custom, we ate
with the people of the house afterwards. They gave us some of the
sweetest drinking coconuts I've ever had, they
were pretty good. And for some reason the pandanus fruit they gave us
was softer than usual and also really sweet. After that we went home and
did our studies, and then left for Tabwakea. We had about a 2 hour
meeting with the Menzies because they are leaving
tomorrow and they wanted to give us all the keys to everything and
whatnot. By that time we didn't have that much more time in the day, so
we had one or two lessons, and dinner to end the day.
Wednesday October 16
A pretty solid day. We went to Tabwakea early for
district council, and our water wasn't working very well so Elder
Bartley wanted to take a shower there as well. We showed up to the
sisters trying to break into the newly vacated Menzie home
with a pocket knife. Later I learned that the Menzies gave the keys to
the Elders in Tabwakea who loaned the keys to the Sisters, who locked
the keys in the house. Suffice to say that we have the keys now. After
that we had district council, me and Elder Bartley
gave a training on staying with our companions. After that we had some
members point the way to our investigators house. We tracted around this
place that is kinda known for being unfriendly to missionaries, but it
went a lot better than we expected. We had
a lesson at 6, which went pretty well, but afterwards the wife needed
some help understanding something from a business class that she is
taking. Something about Accounting Entities. We basically just ended up
translating a couple paragraphs, and it was easily
the hardest translation I've ever done. You don't hear a lot of
business terms here, so I really had to dig. After that we had dinner.
Thursday October 17
Woke up today to do service for a teenage male. We
chopped coconuts for him, which is our favorite service to do. We got to
his house before he woke up, because in every part of the world
teenagers go to bed late and wake up late. So anyway
we were eating with his family afterwards, and some kids came and
informed us that one of his pigs was loose. He said it wasn't that big
of a deal because it was pregnant, and pretty docile, so all he would
have to do is tie it up while one of us poured food
into its trough. While were doing that however, we saw that another
one of his pigs, this one being a male, had also gotten loose. And
according to our teenage friend, this was a runner pig. At first me and
Elder Bartley tried to catch it ourselves, but we
underestimated how fast pigs can be, so it got away and hid itself in
the bush, where we could see it, but not reach it. So our friend
whistles, and 2 dogs out of nowhere come sprinting to attack this pig.
So then the goal was essentially to catch the pig
before the dogs could kill it. And while it was being attacked, it
would still run wild, but with less purpose, thus giving us the
opportunity to tackle it. I had the pleasure of capturing it, with a
diving tackle. It reminded me of mix between Seahawk gang
tackling, my teammates being the dogs, and the Bickleton Rodeo. So we
tied up the pig again, but this friend of ours used a piece of cloth,
despite my warnings that it would easily be broken. So long story short,
it got loose again, almost immediately. The
chase was on again, but this time our friend captured the pig. But when
we tied it up again, he returned with the cloth. Our conversation went
something like this:
Him: "is using cloth again a good idea?"
Me: "no it's just gonna break again, we need to find a rope."
Him: "you're probably right huh."
But then he proceeds to tie the pig with the cloth again
while I again remind him that the pig is going to immediately break
free, and him even agreeing with me all the while. But he proceeded to
tie it with the cloth and, surprise, it got out
again. Again the chase, and I got another tackle. And since the pig was
to tired to be lead at this point, I also had to carry it to the place
it was going to be tied up. So this time our friend came back with some
legit rope, and the pig was secured. Anyways,
the day after that was pretty typical, some lessons and some finding.
We had dinner in Tabwakea because it was one of the Sister's birthday,
so we were invited to her Botaki. Unfortunately I felt myself start to
run a fever at the end of it, and when we eventually
got home I was running at 102.
Friday October 18
Sick day. Nothing really to report. According to the
thermometer Becky Mom sent me with it got up to 103, so I essentially
laid around all day.
Saturday October 19
Had a fever in the morning, so the whole morning was
spent sleeping. Woke up around noon feeling a lot better, but super hungry. Rested the rest of the day. A drunk guy did come and talk to us
for an hour though.
Sunday 20
Better day. Was good enough to go to church. There was a
ton of people there, which was good to see. Afterwards I laid down for
about an hour. Then we went and took one of (actually the only) our
young men to take the sacrament to old ladies.
After that we had 3 lessons, which all turned out okay. Now that I
think of it, all of them were the first lesson. I was pretty tired for
the most part I did well.
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