Also Classified as a Heptologist (Jacob letter 12/15/2019)

Hi

It's the I-Kiribati version of Elder Stanfield.

I can't spell in Cyrillic. 

I've written a haiku in the 2-5-2 format

Help me

Medical crisis 

Pooping 

Tuesday/Wednesday 10/11

So Elder Bartley and I both have been sick these past two days. So nothing really exciting at all has happened. I was sicker on Tuesday than on Wednesday. I had a fever that kept going up and down but I couldn't get it to break. Also Bekanako. On Wednesday the same thing except no Bekanako because I didn't eat anything on Tuesday. I would go on to also not eat anything on Wednesday. The fever finally broke Wednesday night, and I sweated a whole bunch. But laying inside all day for two days makes it hard to sleep at night. Wednesday to Thursday night was not the most peaceful sleep I've ever had. Needless to say I am more than ready to become a missionary again.

 

 

Thursday December 12

Woke up and felt great today, finally. We had MLC today at noon, so that had us in Tabwkea. That was about 2 and a half hours long. It had good content though, as MLCs usually do. It's  one of the few times we actually get to hear from President because he is so busy with his two countries, which provides for essentially two missions. We planned Zone (They call it zone but it would be more appropriate to use the word mission) conference. Usually when we plan who is going to give trainings and what they are going to be on, I can suggest stuff with no fear because I will never have to give a training so long as I was on Kiritimati. That previous statemant was apparently a false assumption on my part, because I suggested a training and then they assigned it to me and Elder Bartley.  Not much else happened today besides that we missed a bunch of lessons so we had to go to our people and reschedule times.

Friday December 13

Quite an uneventful day. We went down to Tabwakea again to run a bunch of errands. The Elders in London lost the key to their house a while ago, and because they did not know that we had a spare key, they smashed the pad lock keeping their door locked. So, we had to go find a new Pad lock me and Elder Bartley. So that was on errand, and the Sisters needed money so we just absolutley had to take them to get some, despite that their bank accounts were also empty. I'm not surebhoe missionaries run out of money so quickly all the time, I get the same as them and I feel like Whiz Khalifa because my money is loooong. We met with one of investigators, Naomi, and we have her three Baptismal dates to choose from, so there'll be a baptism soon, we'll just see if I'm here for it. We actually have a bunch of other investigators that are pretty ready for baptism, they just aren't married yet. We had dinner with an RM who served in Oklahoma and she made us Chili and potatoes, which was really good. Sometimes it's refreshing to eat another starch besides rice. 

Saturday December 14

Today was a little more action packed, we've gotten our schedule to be full again after 2 day of n work earlier in the week. Before we were about to leave the house today, a group of branch members brought a bunch of tie dye materials over to the mwaneaba and started tie dying a bunch of lavalavas. For the Christmas botaki on the 21st our whole branch is wearing them. This got me thinking about how versatile mwaneabas are. You can have church in them, have dance parties, and also apparently do tie dye. I think the Restored Church should abandon the current style of chapels as meeting houses, and just use mwaneabas world wide. Eventually we left and started doing average missionary things, meeting with people we know, meeting people we don't know along the way. We met a lady who was so shocked that I have neither smoked, drank, chewed, nor drank kava that I'm pretty sure she doesn't believe that I don't. Anyways we had 4 lessons scheduled today, and we taught three. One was a very distracted lesson about the word of wisdom and chastity, the other a very short lesson about the Doctrine of Christ, and we taught the shyest man in the whole world that God is a God of miracles. At one of the lessons, right when we showed up we saw a three year old kid drink like 3 cups of tea. As you may expect, about 15 minutes later, he was going nuts trying to destroy our lesson. We had a dance practice with the ward to end the day. We're doing the Haka and I slapped my legs so hard there are purple spots on them.

Sunday December 15

Pretty alright Sunday. There was a pretty large amount od people at church, even though a good 30% of them came after the opening song. The young men were the ones to give talks today. One kid was pretty funny, he talked about how we should trust our kids and let them go places when they want to. It's almost like there was a conflict of interest there. But since there was only young men speaking, sacrament meeting ended about 15 minutes early. After church we had a couple lessons, one was with my favourite investigators, Nuunebwa and Taabi. We taught them the gospel. Like most people here, when I asked them some deep, introspective questions, it was the first time they had thought about it. So it was good. We met with this other lady who we had given Ana Boki Moomon to and she read the testimony of Joseph Smith. For maybe the first time, I heard someone plainly say that they did not initially believe what Jospeh Smith had to say. Usually people read it and just kind of forget about, but this lady was actually considering what was true. So I was excited about that. We had dinner like usual, and then we drove down to sleep in London.