Hello Everybody, I hope all is going well back at home with the craziness of the Virus. Well I assume all of you have heard that all missionaries that are not native to the country they are serving in have to come home, and I'm sure you guys have figured out from the title that our mission as well has to head on home. We are not sure as of when because we have to wait for all the outer island missionaries to come back to the main island first, but we were told it will most likely happen next week. But before I keep talking about that sad news, let me share with you all a pretty awesome Highlight from the week.
Saturday Morning: This morning we did a service project for our friends, Waintau, Terenga, and Marawa. We were supposed to do it early in the week, but right now were in the middle of a cyclone I guess you can call it, so it has stopped dumping rain all week which kept putting off our service with them. Finally, I told them that we could just work in the rain, and they happily agreed with that. When we were all ready we grabbed our knifes and went off into the Tropical Jungle. There is this tree called the Pandanus Tree that has these razor sharp leaves and some pretty tasty fruit. The leaves on this tree are kind of in a bunch, it's like an onion almost, so to get to the middle you have to peel back the sharp leaves one by one until you get to the middle (which isn't a fast process ha). Or you can give the knife to an American teenage boy who likes to chop stuff and can get into the middle in half the time hahaha. Anyways, in the middle of this bunch, there are white leaves that haven't gone green yet that people here use to heal sick people (yes potions do exist;)) So basically we peel back these leaves, get a few cuts because there sharp, and rip out the white leaves once you get to them. They are actually not bad taste wise at all. It was a pretty fun service because we were just walking around the Kiribati Jungle, with knives, all while eating leaves. Like how fun does that sound. That was probably the highlight of this week.
Anyways back to the coming home thing. Tuesday morning we found out. Also Tuesday morning we were doing a service project for these people that needed help cutting down a couple coconut trees. I was in the process of cutting down this one coconut tree when we got the call saying that we are going home. All I can say is that tree fell down a lot faster after I heard that. Its definently going to be really hard leaving this awesome place, but even harder to leave these people. Kiribati has become my second home because of all the awesome people I have met, all the memories that have been made, and everything else that comes a long with a place being your home. And just like it was hard to leave California, it will be just as hard to leave here. But after reading a couple conference talks, I have come to be at more peace with what is happening.
I Tangiringkami
Elda Jeppson
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| Service with Waintau |
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| The white part is what you eat |
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| This is how we get rid of trash |
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| Bubu having fun in the rain |
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| Helping get the stuff to make Kiei's (mats) |
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