This is a teapot
It is big, it is round
This is my ears
This is my mouth
If it is hot
I yell "ha ha"
Turn me over
Turn me over
Turn me over
Pour
A song I learned this week
Not quite that exciting, but interesting is how I would
describe today. So we woke up and went to a service, which was surprise,
chopping coconuts. Elder Bartley figured out how Kiribati people do it,
so he chopped a ton, while I did none. Then
we went down to Tabwakea and called into Zone Conference. It was pretty
good, except when they were talking about if we became a technology
mission. And then lots of pointless questions asked. But we also
discussed the new handbook, which was fruitful. We
all got our ankles broken by transfers. So I'm staying with Elder
Bartley, which is a surprise by itself. Elder Geertsen is leaving
tomorrow, that was expected. But what we learned today was that Elder
Geertsen's old companion, Elder Baker, isn't going to
get his new companion for another 2 weeks. So we get to trio with him
for awhile, and cover both areas, woohoo. And if that wasn't enough,
they are sending 2 more sisters out here, making a total of 4. I guess
the upside is that one of them is I-Kiribati so
we'll all get better at the language.
Wednesday November 13
A day for sure. Woke up early at the request of the
Elders in Tabwakea, so we could take them to a good bye breakfast. We
had district council afterwards, which was okay, the language training
was just an exchange of new vocabulary that we've
picked up recently. And then we talked about what happened during Zone
Conference. I wasn't too impressed with the conference yesterday, I
thought it was going to be more thought provoking and motivating than it
was. It's okay because generally speaking I
don't really need to be motivated by an external force. After that we
took Elder Geersten to the airport because he's going back to Tarawa.
Despite my heavy objections, the sisters tagged along "to say good bye"
(I was outvoted 5 to 1), I'll hold my tongue
and describe that activity as an enormous and unnecessary waste of
time. We were officially in a trio with Elder Baker, and we took him
around Banana and taught some lessons.
Thursday November 14
An interesting day for sure. We spent the morning
working in Tabwakea, because that's Baker's area. We had a lesson about
tithing, which I haven't actually taught in awhile, so the refresher was
good. After that we went around and scheduled
times with what seemed like everybody in Tabwakea. So that took from
about 9am to almost 1pm. So after that we went back and had lunch, and
we didn't have the chance to do comp study in the morning, so we did
that as well. So at about 2ish we went back down
to Banana to teach all the lessons we had scheduled before. They went
alright I suppose. We ran into one of our other investigators and she
told us that she's going to Tabueran (Fanning Island) until the new
year. I was pretty sad about that because she's
one our good friends. We had dinner in Tabwakea because a member was
having their 5 year marriage anniversary. It was a small gathering, but
They did have cake.
Friday November 15
Pretty interesting day I suppose, we worked in Tabwakea,
so I got to meet some new people. It was also weird teaching as a
threesome, I think sometimes we didn't know what to say because we were
expecting someone else to say something, etc.
Most of the lessons we taught were in the morning, and then we had
weekly planning, which took forever because it was for 3 areas, and then
we had to do needs. That included laminating some documents and
delivering some missionary materials. Nothing really
too exciting happened besides that, we drove up to Banana for dinner,
and Elder Baker and Elder Bartley slept for about an hour while they
prepared the food, leaving me to talk with everyone.
Saturday November 16
We worked in Banana today, we didn't have a lot of stuff
planned like usual, mostly because this week was so different. So we
spent most of the time finding new people and setting up appointment
with investigators that didn't have times scheduled
with us. So we did that until about 4:30, and we went back to Tabwakea
to attend a baptism. It was one of the Sister's people, a ten year old
boy. His mom is a member and his dad isn't. I think he didn't really
know who to ask to baptise him, and since I did
his baptismal interview, he asked me. It was a nice experience.
Afterwards we had a botaki with the branch, they had some nice dances
for us. One of our investigators actually lead one of the dances, and
she went pretty hard, it was entertaining.
Sunday November 17
We went to church in the Tabwkea 2 branch to start,
mostly because we figured that Elder Baker wouldn't be going there
anymore after this week. The first speaker during sacrament meeting
spoke until the time the meeting was supposed to end,
and then we sang an intermediate hymn, and the last speaker spoke, so
we went about 30 min over. After that we went to Banana to catch the
second our of their church, but lucky for us they were in the process of
going 30 min over as well, so we caught about
half of their sacrament meeting as well. And since it was the
equivalent of a ward council, they brought cake for everyone. After
that, we had a word of wisdom lesson with these 2 couples, and it went
pretty well. I don't think I like that the 2 couples are
combined at this point, because one couple has already prayed and
received answers about Ana Boki Moomon, and the other hasn't. Who knows
maybe the other couple will follow suite.
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