On this world
We share our talents
Which have been given by God
For our individual opportunities
Light your candles
Put them on their places now
That they may be seen
By all people
Light your candles
This is a translation of a song. Much more poetic than the teapot song I learned.
We slept in London again, and had a service in the
morning. We were supposed to put this old man's water tank on a
platform, but the government water truck came and filled it with water.
Three people isn't quite enough to lift 1 ton of water.
So he insisted that he feed us, and that was our service. We had a
couple lessons after that. One was with Teretia, our investigator that
is actually a member, but technically not. We had first time meetings
with a couple people as well, one was a woman names
Teaekaki which is loosley translated to "category." We taught the plan
of Salvation to someone as well, and met some new people. We taught a
lesson about temples to a young couple we are teaching. The hope was to
give them more incentive to keep the Word of
Wisdom. I think it worked, but that's always a struggle. We finished
with dinner at 8, and a centipede was seen crawling towards me, and when
that was mentioned I think I jumped 3 feet in the air from a cross
legged position.
Thursday November 28
So we woke up in Banana today only to find that we had
no water in our tank, and when we turned our valve back to get water, it
wasn't filling the tank. So when we were about to go to Tabwakea to
shower and stuff, it started working again. But
that stalled us for about an hour in the morning. After that we headed
to a botaki we were invited to, thinking we'd just stay for an hour amd
leave, but we were made guests of honor instead. Do that turned into a
3+ hour commitment. We had a bunch of planned
lessons besides that, but we only got to teach one. It went well, it
was on the word of wisdom. We basically just told the guy that if he
believes that Joseph Smith was a prophet, he'll keep this law like he
keeps the Ten Commandments, but if he doesn't, it's
just a bunch of mumbo jumbo. I guess that's kind of true for everything
in the Church, no matter how logical it all seems, we have to believe
in the Restoration. So when we were driving to dinner, we tried to take a
new road that would be faster. But it was
night time, and we couldn't see the road very well. So when we were
about to get to the house we were going to, we turned onto what we
thought was the road. Sike. It was pretty deep mud that looked solid. We
got stuck. I got out and tried to push, with no
success. But luckily some members saw us from their house and pulled
us out with a huge truck.
Friday November 29
Waking up today was great, I've been able to work out
again now that my stomach is stable in the morning. Some lady gave us a
bunch if donuts last night (not real donuts, but bread fried in oil) so
that made for a better breakfast than crackers.
We went dowm to Tabwakea shortly thereafter to minister unto our
beloved Sisters. We completed very inportant tasks such as taking the
garbage to the dump and delivering paper materials. Me and Elder Bartley
each called home because it was Thanksgiving in
America. I felt bad for Sam because "all the athletic people are on
missions" therefore the annual game of bump was not as entertaining. Dad
did tell me about his new pie endeavors which made my mouth water just a
little bit. Anyways, we went back to the holy
city of Banana to work. We had a couple lessons, one of which was on
the Restoration, and the other one was to set up a plan for one of our
investigators to stop chewing kouben (I think kouben has tobacco in it,
but I'm not sure). We had dinner at 8, and the
food was good. I'm quite thankful I can eat full meals again at dinner
time.
Saturday November 30
A more average start to the day, but we did have a
lesson at 10. It was with a couple that split up and got back together,
so we read Jacob 3. But before that, the District President came to cut
grass at the chapel, and he brought us fish and
rice for breakfast. Anyways, we had another half lesson with this girl,
it was on the Message of The Restoration. We had lunch and did weekly
planning after that, which is always great funš. We mostly just to make
a ton of new teaching records because we've
gotten a bunch of new investigators recently. We had some more lessons
after that, one about the word of wisdom and another one about the
Restoration. The restoration lesson went really well, the lady we taught
it to was way into it, and actually seemed like
she wanted to find out what the truth is. I think it's because she has a
test to get a job this week, she just ran away from her drunk husband,
and she has a 3 month old son. I guess she viewed the gospel as a way to
relief and not another stressor in her
life. She isn't even really close to being a member at this point, but
we could all learn from her example. We had dinner like we always do to
end the day, and they made very good fish.
Sunday December 1
December started today, so we rearranged our music
playlist to make it mostly Christmas songs. We started out with church,
there was a medium amount of people there. It was a good tesrimony
meeting. It wasn't a very eventful day besides that,
but I was reading from church magazine and saw a recipe for sticky
mango rice. And my mind had already been on food since Thanksgiving just
past, so unfortunately food was on my mind for the rest of the day.
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