Favorite Memory of the Week: Elder Qarase (Fiji), Elder Rangi (New Zealand) Elder Johnsen (Utah) and I did the Haka in our classroom hallway after one of our lessons haha.
Funniest Moment Of the Week: When we were learning the haka hahaha. We looked like a "bunch of fools", Words from the Fijian and New Zealand Elder.
Most Spiritual Moment: Stephen W. Owen the Young Men's General President came and spoke to us. One of my favorite quotes from him was " Never Give Up, Always Give It Your All No Matter What"
Well Here's the rundown for the week,
Sunday: This was easily one of my favorite Sundays here, and I will tell you why. We started off the day with some awesome meetings and an awesome Sacrament. I mean it would have been a little better except I had to give a talk. The way they pick talks kinda stinks haha, everyone has to prepare a talk and during Sacrament meeting they will tell two people to come up and give a talk on some subject. So Brother Chandler (In the branch presidency) always messes with me by saying "are you ready for your talk today," then he would laugh which made me think I was going to talk every Sunday so far, but I never got chosen. So this Sunday he said the same thing and I was Like "Oh ya Definitely" -thinking to myself i'm not going to get picked- and sure enough when the talks came around my name was announced. After lunch we walked around the temple, laid in the cold grass, and fell asleep. It was felt so good to take a 5 minute nap. After the rest of our meetings we decided to go and take a nap instead of going to choir haha, best decision I have ever made.
Monday: We had another service project cleaning the windows and vacuuming. We taught another lesson to our teacher/investigator, and it went surprisingly well. I was able to understand most of it which was good because i knew what he was asking us, but I wasn't able to respond haha. For some reason I can't respond, but I can understand it's weird. You guys know what happened next in my day, Volleyball:) After that we had a sweet study sesh on the rooftop garden.
Tuesday: Our Classes were super fun today. We learned how to buy things in Kiribati which is super different to how we shop here. It was really fun. We also sang in the choir again during the Tuesday Night Devotional. The song was so awesome and super powerful. There were about 1200 missionaries in the choir so it made it even better. Stephen W. Owen The Young Men's General President and his wife spoke to us. He gave an awesome talk on Humbling Ourselves, Hard Work, and Obedience. Amazing!
Also we did a language fast today. So basically we couldn't speak English all day long. It was really frustrating not being able to say whatever I wanted to say, but it helped out a ton because I was forced to think and speak in Kiribati
Also we did a language fast today. So basically we couldn't speak English all day long. It was really frustrating not being able to say whatever I wanted to say, but it helped out a ton because I was forced to think and speak in Kiribati
Wednesday: We started off the Day with a Book of Mormon study. One of the Elders was talking about how the Book of Mormon Is one singular book instead of a bunch of little books put together, I never thought of that idea and it blew my mind haha. So it was so cool when I was reading it this morning because it made way more sense to me like that instead of thinking of it as little books put together. We had an Intense game of spike ball after lunch. It was way fun. Also Ben Hilburn came into the MTC, and it was way good to see him. It's super fun seeing someone from home.
Thursday: Today we had an Online TRC. So basically we skyped someone in Kiribati and taught them a lesson. It was so amazing! I mean I still wasn't really able to respond, but I still loved it. That was definitely the highlight of my day. There are also 3 Elders here from Kiribati. They are literally the nicest people ever, There so happy about everything and love laughing. They laugh at the dumbest jokes haha it's so awesome.I can't wait to go there.
Well That's the Week For You Guys!
Love You All!
Love Elder Jeppson
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