Mauri Ingkami, Kam Uara?! I'm doing great right now. My hand is almost healed, I don't have a eye infection anymore and I'm healthy.This week was pretty awesome, we had lots of great things happen. One of those being a baptism. Here is the highlights from the week:
We have been teaching this 9 year old boy named Joeamy whose brother is a member but the rest of his family is from the catholic church. Every time we go over to teach him he gets super excited and drops whatever he's doing to lesson with us. One of the coolest things happened when we went over one time to teach him a lesson. We started teaching the Plan of Salvation when he stopped us and told us he was going to teach us about it. We of course let him because My companion and I were very exhausted from speaking haha, and to our surprise he pretty much knew everything about it. On Saturday he got baptized and let me tell you that I have never seen a kid smile so big before. It was awesome.
All of the friends we are teaching right now are super solid and love the lessons. It's super awesome to be teaching a lot of lessons because it helps me grow in how to teach them, and it's a lot of fun. This couple we are teaching right now are probably are most solid friends right now. They are totally focused in on the lessons when we teach them, and keep all the commitments. We had a lesson with them on Friday and as we were leaving they told us that they would see us at church. That was so awesome because we didn't even have to remind them to come to church, they just wanted to.
On Thursday Morning we got a call saying we had to go to the dentist. We were all a little worried because we thought we were about to get worked on by an unqualified Kiribati dentist in a sketchy looking hospital haha. But when we figured out that this American group came to work on missionaries teeth we calmed down. It was very nice being able to talk to other Americans that weren't missionaries, and very nice to find out that I don't have any cavities from all the sugar and diabetes water I drink haha. It was funny watching some of the missionaries from the Pacific and PNG go into the dentist because they have never been to a dentist before. One Papua missionary was in there for about 2 hours because his teeth were so gross. That man came out in pain haha.
Also on Saturday before the baptism we had a pretty awesome service activity. There were a couple pretty large fields of weeds and grass that the village councilor wanted cleared, so we grabbed our machetes and went to work. I dont think I have ever been more exhausted after doing yard work in my entire life. Your arm gets so sore because your swinging a machete back and forth through kind of thick weeds for a long period of time. That was a workout haha. Of course it was no problem for Elder Qarase from Fiji because he told us when they would get in trouble by their parents or by the school they would get sent out into the field and would have to clear the whole field by themselves. That was probably one of the most fun services I have done since I have been here though.
I have recently started reading the book "Saints" put out by the church a little bit back, I have have learned so much more about Joseph Smith and the Restoration just from the first couple chapters. If you guys remember Russell M. Nelson's challenge to study about Joseph Smith before the next general conference, well this is one good way to do so.
Well that's is for this week.
I Tangiringkami!
Elder Jeppson
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| Me and my lawn mower |
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| On our way to church |
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| Our house |
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| The Buota Chapel |
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| Joeamy's Baptism |
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| At the Dentist |
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| Kiribati kid at church |
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| This is how Kiribati kids get home from school |
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| This is how packed the buses can get |
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