Elder Hunter Jeppson: Marshall Islands/Kiribati Mission & New Jersey Morristown : Warning, Polynesians Are Good At Volleyball

Mauri Everyone! How has it been going out there in the real world haha. This has been pretty awesome here in the MTC. Here's the rundown,

Sunday:

Had Meeting from 7:30 am - 9:00 pm so thats was great hahaha

Monday:

The craziest thing happened, we had more classes hahaha. We started off the morning with a service project. We vacuumed some hall ways, and then we got distracted with the people in charge, and started playing the piano with them and talking haha. So we didn't really do a ton. We also had another practice lesson teaching a pretend investigator in our language. My brain was dead after that because it took so much effort to figure out what to say and to listen to what they were saying. We of course played volleyball again and that was awesome!

Tuesday:

The highlight of Tuesday was defiantly volleyball and our devotional haha but more the devotional. James E. Martino of the seventy came and spoke about missionary work. There were 2 quotes that really stood out to me.

1"Don't fall into the trap of complaining and murmuring. Don't compare yourselves to others, it's okay to learn from them but don't compare yourself to them. You become the best that you can become"

2: Don't Complain, Don't Murmur, Just Serve

I was also able to sing in the choir with my district. We sang "Joseph Smith's First Prayer". Super cool spirit and the choir director was amazing.

Wednesday:

We had some more classes and more language study. I feel like the language is started to piece together more because our district trys to speak in it as much as possible which is really helpful. We also had another "party" on the rooftop garden. A lot of missionaries go up there and hang which is really fun.

We also had a crazy intense game of volleyball. These 3 new elders came from Tahiti, and they are way cool. We played volleyball with them and i swear there professinals because they have like a 6 foot vertical haha. It was those 3 Tahitian elders a tongan elder, a Hawaiian elder, and the Fijian elder in my district on a team. It was insane because i have never seen anyone so good at volleyball. They were in such unision with each other that they would destroy everyone every play. It was super fun though because i blocked one of there spikes one time and everyone in the gym went crazy, It was Awesome! And then they spiked it again and destroyed me hahaha.

Thursday:

Yesterday was pretty slow haha. We didnt really do much except for sitting in class all day. We tried to keep ourselves entertained by playing basketball with paper and a trash can haha.

Friday:

Its our P-day, so that means more volleyball and laundry pictures hahah. We also are going to the temple today and that will be awesome. But tonight we have a TRC which is were we teach an actual investigator, so that is very scary hahah.

Love All of You Guys! I Tangiriko

Elder Jeppson