Cubby didn't technically write a letter, just his journal entries.
Tuesday September 24
A bit
of a rough start to the day. Apparently as I was leaving the house to
work out or go to the bathroom or something, Elder Bartley went to look
at me and something popped in his neck. So that
disabled him for most of the morning, so I got in a very large amount
of personal and language study done today. I played doctor a bit, I
boiled some water and put it in a cup and had him heat his neck, then I
gave him 4 ibuprofen (he's a big guy--6'5--so
I'm trusting it wasn't too much). I was told later that the real way to
fix a sore neck was with matches. I'm not sure how to apply matches to a
neck, so we didn't try that one. We missed our first lesson, but
necessity called that we pick up the Menzies from
their return flight from Fanning island. They generously gifted me with
a Kiribati knife, probably because I got shafted by getting
transferred, and it's pretty cool, it was very nice of them.That trip
got Elder Bartley loosened up a little bit, so we could
execute the rest of the day as planned. We got a rat trap today, I'm
pretty excited to get this rat tonight, it's been keeping me up when
it's chewing on things and whatnot.
Wednesday September 25
Just
another day. Woke up to see that the rat trap had been sprung, and the
peanut butter was gone, but there was no rat. Sad morning. Had some eggs
though in the morning, in contrast to the usual
peanut butter and crackers. We had district council. Also fun fact,
there are 3500+ species of mosquitoes in this world. Afterward we took
Elder Bartley down to the Kiritimati equivalent of the town hall and got
his license. So I taught him a bit about how
to drive a stick (because I am so experienced). At the end of the day
we went and picked up Elder Reddy to come and work with me in Banana.
And when we came home, there was a pleasant surprise waiting for us,
because the rat trap caught the rat!
We had
a lesson today on Jacob chapter 3 in Ana Boki Moomon. I had a specific
verse in mind when we first gave it to this lady, but when we read it
together, I thought another verse was good
for her as well. And after she read that verse, she told us that the
reading we gave was perfect for her.
Thursday September 26
A good
day as well. Woke up and worked out, and got in some good studies with
Elder Reddy, he isn't very good at the language yet, so I had a lot of
teaching opportunities as well, just during
studies. When we went out to go teach, our first couple lessons fell
through, so we made 3 or 4 good contacts and scheduled 2 or 3 lessons
with new people. Don't get those kinds of percentages in Moldova. We
also picked up someone's house and put it on the
back of a truck, which I'm also assuming that can't be gotten in Moldova.
We had a lesson with Teretia, the same lady from yesterday, and Elder
Reddy had the idea to share Ether 12:27. I thought it was kind of
random, but it's a great doctrine, so we just sent
it. So long story short, Teretia just ended up asking us why is it that
every time she reads Ana Boki Moomon with us, she feels like it's
directly applicable to her life. Coincidence?
Friday September 27
The day
started out normal, but before we were about to leave the house, we
locked our keys inside. Good news is, however, no matter where we leave
our keys in the house, we can always grab them
with a stick. We had an alright day after that, tried to make some new
contacts, but they weren't really turning out today, but that's okay. We
did pick up a new investigator though, which was good (I realize that
the difference between meeting somebody for
the first time and a new investigator might not make sense to some of
you at home, but for the missionaries out there reading this, y'all
know). It was good because this whitewash has had us meeting people who
are used to other elders, and meeting members
of the church, so finding new people has been kinda difficult. Dinner
was good, it was the Branch President's father in law's 53 birthday.
They demanded I give a speech at the end and tell the story of when I
closed a botaki in Abaiang.
Saturday September 28
A great
start to the day. We had an early lesson in the morning, in which we
had our first lesson with a family of 5. And that pretty much took us
through the morning. We came back and ate lunch
after that, the typical noodles with egg. So apparently during our
split on Thursday, Elder Bartley learned a dance for today's good bye
botaki for the Menzies. So he had a practice just past noon. We had to
take missionary needs down to Tabwakea anyways,
so we went. After doing needs, we set up for the botaki, and that took
us to the end of the day. It was a fun botaki, even though I was the
only missionary who didn't dance. I did get tricked into the London
Branch's kamataku (to make watch... performance
maybe?) which just included sitting and clapping and singing. I faked
knowing the songs pretty well I think.
Sunday September 30
A
pretty good Sunday. Woke up and studied or whatever, then we had church.
There was an unusually large amount of people there. We got a new
Branch Presidency, and they bore testimony so that
made for a lively sacrament meeting. We also had some investigators
come that hadn't really ever come before. And for some reason somebody
brought ice cream for after church. We took the only young man in our
branch to take the sacrament to people.
So lately there has been a focus in the mission to extend Spirit lead invitations rather just giving out readings to people. So I've been
really focusing on it and seeing real results. Today
we had a lesson with somebody who read Ether 12. Looking at him after he
read verse 12, it looked like the secrets of life were unleashed to him
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