Thursday December 26
Today was pday, we switched it with monday because of
the holidays. We had planned to call home in the morning, considering
that would be Christmas time at home. But all the networks were down, so
there was no internet/texting on the island.
That was a little disappointing, but we moved on, I made pancakes. But
remember that Sister that was admitted to the hospital? A member of the
YSA came up to us and told us that our Sister was having surgery in 5
minutes. To say the least we were quite surprised,
since all the testing they had done wasn't showing anything to my
knowledge. We tried to contact our mission nurse on Tarawa, but again no
connection. We have a satellite phone, but we couldn't really get that
to work. So basically, we couldn't contact our
superiors before the surgery started. They had post poned the surgery
til we got there, and everyone was kinda looking at me to see of we were
actually gonna let them operate in the first hospital I've seen a mouse
in. I talked to the surgeon and asked how
bad she needed surgery and he said something along the lines that it
needed to be done within a few hours. I asked him why they had waited
for us and to start as soon as they could. Anyways, so we waited for her
for awhile, and then when she came out, I had
to talk to all the doctors and send reports back to Sister Kirk. We had
dinner in Tabwakea after everything had kinda blown over, and we slept
in London.
Friday December 27
The sick sister's companion needed a break, so we
switched them out. Then in Tabwakea, everyone called home briefly, I
think mostly to explain why they hadn't called home on Christmas. We
were also charged with making the sister a soup to eat.
Although when it was made apparently it was too salty and it was
rejected. I think the Sister ended up eating baby food. The baby food
here is made of custard, so I kinda wanted to try, but I wanted to
preserve my dignity more. We had more stuff to do in Tabwakea,
like taking out the garbage and whatnot. We also remembered that we
have a baptism tomorrow, that due to this whole surgery thing, hadn't
been planned one bit. So we really just spent the rest of the day doing
that.
Saturday December 28
The baptism was scheduled for 9 am, at the request of
the memebers so that they could go to that and also attend some primary
function in Tabwakea. Well none of them really came anyway, so we
probably could've done it anytime. But it went well,
our presiding officer and baptizer showed up, with the girl's best
friend to give a talk about baptism. One of the sisters had actually
taught her a bunch before she moved from Tabwakea to Banana, so she came
as well and spoke on the Holy Ghost. We did the
baptism in the ocean which was cool. After that ended, we decided that
it was a good time to visit our sister in the hospital, and when we got
there, they were about to get released. And they couldn't call us,
because the service went back down. But we got
there just in time. There are two phone services over here, ATH and a
newer one called OceanLink. The mission uses ATH, but their's is the
network that keeps going down, when Ocean Link stays steady. So we went
to the store and bought OceanLink sim cards to
keep in case of emergency. We went back to Banana and weekly planned,
which was needed because we missed all of our times from Tuesday till
Friday, so we had to make plans to visit all of them. After that, we had
some time to go and schedule times, but around
7 we went to a botaki. This was a member's botaki that we are pretty
close with. It was their son's first birthday, which is pretty big
culturally. We stayed for a bit and ate some pig, and then left.
Sunday December 29
We finally slept in Banana again today. We had church
per the usual, but it was exciting because our person was getting
confirmed. Also we had an investigator come to church for the first
time. Church went normal, Elder Bartley and I gave talks.
After church we ate and then Elder Bartley fell asleep and I started
packing because the APs told us I was flying out on Wednesday. That took
up a decent amount of time, but we went to work afterwards. We set up
some more times, and I talked with someone from
the Bahai faith and she told me that they don't celebrate Christmas and
they don't think the new year happens til March. I mean at least they
don't think Christmas is in January. We had dinner to end the day.
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