I'm looking for some coconut dancers.
A popular culture reference. But only to like 50,000 people, so maybe not quite popular culture.
Well anyways, it's been a week, to say the least. But to say the most would take awhile. So I'll say like a medium amount.
On Monday we had a dance off between districts. Since
the Eita District refuses to do dance practices during any productive
hours of the day, we didn't actually practice that much. So we ended
doing a routine that consisted of the beginning
of a fake Haka, a sorry attempt to do half of a Kiribati dance (without
music), and then doing that same dance with shaky arms to make it look
like we were doing the thriller dance (with music--Michael Jackson's
Thriller actually). We lost pretty bad. But
we easily laughed the most preparing our dance, and also we had the
most baptisms last month.
Tuesday was Zone Conference. Basically the main point of
it was that us missionaries have to buckle down and do some work,
because we set some pretty high goals for ourselves. We got 585 baptisms
last year and we set a goal for 1537 this year.
I like it because it gives me an excuse to give my district a lecture
about not wasting time/being obedient. We also ate Australian meat pies
during lunch.
Wednesday was okay. We had to wait around for awhile while someone in our house got transferred so he could have a companion.
Thursday we had district council. We all discussed the
zone conference and we have to think of ways to do 2.6 times the amount
of work this year as we did last year. I also did a couple baptismal
interviews, they didn't all go too well, but
the world keeps spinning. We also had our first meeting with the new
ward mission leader, who was baptized 1 year ago. He's super into it, so
the work is about go through the roof.
We finally had a regular day on Friday. Nothing too
crazy happened, but we did teach a pretty good lesson on the law of the
Sabbath day.
On Saturday we had a meeting for all the district
leaders, because almost everyone is pretty new to it. It was pretty
beneficial I think. I did a lot of the talking, because all the other
DLs in the whole mission are starting their first transfer
as DL and I'm starting my 5th. Me and the Zone Leaders weren't able get
baptismal clothes for someone being baptized and the Elder whose
investigator was getting baptized wouldn't answer his phone, so me and
Elder 'Ealelei had to bus up to them to sort things
out and ask if she had white clothes. Long story short, we met the
person about to get baptized on the side of the road in a miraculous
manner, and we got everything figured out. Or so we thought. Fast
forward to the baptism, and she doesn't actually have
white clothes like she said she did. So me and Elder Holman went and
asked one of the senior couples if they had any white dresses. She then
replied that there should be some in the office (which the zone leaders
had NOT informed me of) and that she could
take us down to the office but we would have to bus back. So we
eventually got the dress and the baptism started. And then the font was
only filled to knee height and they had to ask me at the last second to
give a talk on the Holy Ghost. We had a talk about
organizing baptisms last week during district council, but we're gonna
have another run at it again this week. A highlight is that some of the
people that me and my companion are teaching came to watch, which was a
big victory.
Sunday was good. We had a meal with one of the senior
couples and they made us salad, pizza and cookies. Just like Borat would
say, very nice.
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