Tuesday: We had another solid lesson with Nei Berita On the Plan Of Salvation. She was very interested and she surprisingly knew a lot about it which was super awesome. She keeps telling us how much she loves our church and how much she wants to join it. We also had a sad experience with a member. We went up to teach a member about the temple because he and his wife want to go, but when we got there he was pretty drunk. It was super sad because when he saw us he got super sad and knew that he messed up. So that kind of stunk.
Wednesday: Man today I got destroyed by a huge migraine and a high fever. It hit me hard when we were at our branch presidents house, so I slept in his hammock for 30 minutes to try and get my migraine to calm down. We ended up going back to the house early because I felt like garbage. I layed in the dark for about 1.5 hours then went to bed around 7. Let me tell you that fevers are not fun here because your body is super hot but you have nothing to cool you down haha, so you just sweat and sweat.
Thursday: Today was an adventure for sure. We got a call from the AP's telling us we needed to go down to Nabeina(which is the area below ours) to grab some stuff elders left behind, but to get there you have to time the tide right because it's about an hour and a half journey through the ocean. The way down there was easy because the tide was all the way out, so it took us about an hour to get to Kaineba and about another 30 minutes crossing the channels of water that connected to the ocean to get to Nabeina. Well on the way back the tide had really come in which made crossing the channels a lot harder because the water was up to our necks and the current was strong. Once we crossed the first channel we realized that we wouldn't be able to cross the other 3 because of the tide and the current. So we prepared ourselves to spend a night on this tiny little island with no people, tons of mosquitoes and we had nothing. We decided to say a prayer and after we said it we walked down to the point of the island. As soon as we got to the point of the island a boat was passing us do we were able to hop on. All I can say is that was an answer to our prayers. Our journey that was supposed to take 3 hours ended up taking 7 hours. And we found out when we got back that it was the King tide which happens every couple years, so that's why the tide was so high.
Friday: I went on splits with Elder Sryneck today up in Tearinibai. We had 4 lessons set up, but only one of them went through, so we ended up playing cards with old ladies for about an hour or so haha.
Saturday: We had a very productive day of building gardens. We spent about 6 hours building and preparing 4 gardens for members and non members. Here I was thinking that I would escape yard work for two year while on the mission, but man was I wrong. I do yard work almost every day haha.
Well that was my week for you all.
Love Elder Jeppson
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| Me and Taitai and my big Ol Fish |
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| All the Fish we caught on Pday |
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| Welcome to the desert in the Pacific ocean (Low tide) |
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| High Tide |
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| Mom I swear I wash my feet |
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| Sunset! |
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