The first day in a while that we didn't have something
to do in the morning, like District Council or service. When we first
left the house we met an old lady who was raking/sweeping leaves. I told
her I would do it for her, so I raked for about
30 min while Elder Bartley talked with her. The rest of the day was
pretty normal. We had 4 lessons planned but we ended up teaching 2. One
lady that we taught refused to pray because she was certain she would
cry and be embarrassed. The other lesson was our
first with a younger couple. After dinner we were invited to learn a
dance with the branch. Elder Bartley was excited because we were told is
a New Zealand dance and he has heritage there. But when we got there
they were doing a excersize dance, kinda like
Zumba. That was only one half of the branch though because they are
doing an intra branch competition, so me and Elder Bartley might go see
what the other team is doing.
Wednesday November 6
Had district council today. For language training we did
something like 20 questions and my thing was Bambi's mom so it took
awhile. Me and Elder Bartley had no food in our house so we ate at a
restaurant afterwards. Their half cooked fish was
okay but I've had better. Anyways after that it was just a typical day.
Meaning that only 2 out our 5 planned lessons went through. They were
good lessons though. At one of them there was a girl we never met before
standing right next to the house before the
lesson started. I asked if she wanted to join us, and she made it sound
like we wouldn't want her there, most likely as an excuse. Usually when
people refuse the first time, I let them be, but this time I kept
thinking of a Jeffery R. Holland talk that talked
about a missionary who put his foot in the door when somebody tried to
shut it on them. So I tried to convince this girl for like 20 minutes
with no success. After the lesson was over though, she came back and I
asked her if we could schedule a time with her.
She said she would talk to her mom. But right then her mom walked up,
and we already knew her. So we scheduled a time with both of them.
Thursday November 7
A disappointing start to the day really. We had a
service to start the day, it was to chase pigs and tie them up, but when
we showed up, nothing happened. The lady we were gonna do it for said
that they had all ran away and that they would have
to do it later that night. Pretty normal day besides that, we taught
this lady about our reason for living on the earth. She liked the lesson
because before we started she asked out of the blue how we get to
heaven. We forgot to confirm dinner, but it was
alright because the people we had scheduled it with was the house that
all the members were going to practice their dance. So when we showed up
to see if they remembered, they didn't but we had an excuse for coming
to their house so they weren't embarrassed.
But we did have canned fruit for dinner which was a bummer.
Friday November 8
A normal start to the day, studies etc. But we had to go
down to Tabwakea to take needs and whatnot. We were starving from the
night before having no dinner, so we made a deal with the sisters that
they would make us lunch if we brought icecream.
So we had chicken for lunch. So after that we went back to a bunch of
lessons we had scheduled. We had 4 scheduled and 2 went through. One of
them was a first time lesson, which is always exciting. Nothing really
too exciting happened after that, besides that
we had dinner and our car alarm went off during it.
Saturday November 9
Another service appointment fell through in the morning.
And then directly afterwards a morning lesson fell through as well. But
that was okay because we had weekly planning to do, and we had a lot to
discuss because last week Elder Bartley
was sick so we didn't do it. After that we went to find some people we
knew and set up times with them. We ran into one of our investigators
who told us that her husband got drunk last night and that some crazy
stuff went down. She seemed like she just wanted
to sit and talk for awhile, so that's what we did. Essentially the
entire camp where she lives got drunk the night before, so I got asked a
bunch if I wanted to go drinking, and one guy asked me if I wanted to
sleep next to the road. I'll pass this time. All
the rest of our lessons fell through, but we met some new people, which
is always fun. We got called by the APs and they told us transfers.
They told me I was staying, same companion. It's kinda crazy, only one
other person before me has stayed on Kiritimati
for 5 transfers, so I had kinda assumed that I was leaving, but I guess
not.
Sunday November 10
A pretty average Sunday. One of the speakers in
sacrament meeting spoke about focusing during sacrament meeting, and how
it would benefit us, and I think I was among the few people who
listened. This is called irony. And during the second hour
this old guy names Bwaketi (literally translated to Bucket) was telling
stories about when he got drunk, and everyone in the elders quroum was
dying of laughter. Afterwards we had some lessons, although one of them
was just talking to one of our investigators
who just recently seperated from her husband. We've seem a lot of
family situations that aren't very good lately. It's definitly made me
thankful that I come from a steady home. Also more than ever I know that
a home founded upon gospel principals can and
will bring happiness and stability in our lives. Sometimes I just wanna
grab people here and shake them and say "can't you see what you're
missing? Can you not understand that our message holds the keys to all
your problems?"
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