Hello Everyone! How has it been going over there?! Well this week was full of excitement and tiredness. Here's the rundown:
Tuesday: Since we have 1 person in our teaching pool right now we spent all of today tracting. We left the house around 10:30ish and came back around 7 ish because our dinner appointment got cancelled. Anyways, we went up to Nooto and started tracting. The first couple hours we got shut down pretty hard haha. Then it started raining very hard which meant we couldn't visit anyone until it stopped. One of the last houses we went to was a success. We found a father and a son who were happy to lesson. It helped me realize that hard work and embarrassing moments not being able to understand what others are saying pays off.
Wednesday-Friday: We also spent all day these days tracting as well. I have never been so tired and exhausted from talking to people haha. But it was all worth it because we got a couple more people to start teaching. Also we had 2 dinners this week because #1: People kept canceling on us and #2: There are a lot of people gone from our area. So we ate lots of noodles and lots of canned pineapple because thats all there is to eat.
Saturday: Today was very crazy! On Friday night my companion got really sick and was in a ton of pain. So Saturday we called the mission nurse to tell her about his status and she told us we needed to get down south. But the problem was that the waa (boat) didn't leave until Sunday and all the boats we usually hire were busy. I was explaining this situation to our neighbors in the way good Kiribati I speak haha, and they told us they will go and try to find us a boat. I asked a member of the branch to help me give Elder Merito a blessing which actually meant just me because the member decided he was too shy to give a blessing. Our neighbor came back 3 hours later and told us she convinced the KUC church (Catholic) to take us down on there boat which was an answer to prayer. The boat however broke down and took us 45 minutes to get it started again. Also, to add on to this we were in the middle of a big storm. That was very exciting because I was trying to do what the mission nurse was telling me to do, and at the same time trying to talk to people to figure out how to get down south. Welcome to Kiribati haha.
Other news I just finished the Book of Mormon on Wednesday. I have definitely learned a whole lot from actually reading and studying it.
Well thats pretty much all that happened this week.
(side note: we were able to talk to Elder Jeppson on Sunday. Elder Merito is on antibiotics and doing better. Hunter also got sick from raw chicken Saturday night but seems to be doing better but maybe will never eat chicken again :)
Love Elder Jeppson
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| A Bwai ni Kiribati Planner cover a member made for me |
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| A sick Elder Merito toughing it out on the boat ride down South |
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