Sup fam bam?Thanks for letting me know that Red (Dog) has no testicles now Dad.
Sounds like your week was great. Your Birthday sounds like it was pretty chill Mum.
This week has been really great for me and my area.
So Elder Miller came! Finally we can concentrate on just our area, but I'm going to miss London's investigators and Elder Beacham is going to miss our investigators.
No parcels came on the plane with Elder Miller and Elder Johnson just a letter from PMG class (Danien's Christmas Parcel has still not arrived, and we sent anotherone 2 months ago which is still sitting in Botany, New South Wales). So yeah, everything is still in Tarawa. And the parcel that's stuck in Sydney, that's a bit worrying considering there is a possibility I will be transferred soon. I really hope I don't though I am loving Tabwakea 1st so much. Alot of our investigators have become legit friends.
Since Elder Miller has been here and we've been working in our area everyday, the work has picked up its pace again. And for the first time I've been out tracting! Not because we had to but every time a lesson falls through, instead of going to our next person on the list, Elder Miller likes to try one house before we head off.
So the way tracting goes with him is we pick a random house and a random name, go to the people from the house and ask if that random name lives there. And as you'd expect they'd have no idea who the random name is, so before leaving we ask if they want lessons and more times than not they invite us in and listen. So yeah, tracting is way to easy here, the only thing is we have to figure out if they really want to listen or they are just being polite.
So yeah we have a few new investigators, just haven't taught them enough yet to count them as progressing, but our progressing ones right now are legit. One of them Tioni (Johnny) is so cool, he's only 13 years old but we set up a time with his parents for a lesson so they could be a potential complete family.
Anyways, when you first see Tioni, you might think he is not all quite there in the head, but he is the smartest 13yr old kid I've met in Kiritimati. Its just his face looks a little messed up, which is sad because kids have no chill with bullying here.
He was telling us when he went to school last year he was top of his class but he couldn't go back this year because he didn't have a shirt, bag, exercise books and pens. So this morning before school started Elder Miller and i grabbed my Kathmandu shoulder bag, bunch of pens and pencils, smallest white shirt Elder Miller had, rushed to a store, bought 7 exercise books and gave it all to his Mum before school started so he could go to school.
I really hope that helped there family and made them happy and now I just cant wait what other happiness we can bring them with this gospel.
something that was really big this week, do you remember Tatonga, the one who had Word of Wisdom issues, so we started visiting him again and had a really good lesson on repentance and during the lesson we mentioned fasting and straight away he asked what fasting was. so we explained it and he got really excited and wanted to fast the next day
(Saturday) to help him with his WOW problem, so we said we would join him.
On that Saturday, we were near his house so we decided to check up on his fast. First we find him with a fish and a big plate of rice infront of him... and he was drunk... kinda sucks. However, he felt really drunk sorry... he also explained that he opened his fast in
pray, but somebody came along an hour later and gave him alcohol. at least he opened in pray... but, teutana imwiin teutana (little after little).
So yeah those are the highlight of this week. For crazy stories... to be honest every day here would be so different from home, and you could count them as crazy stories but wack things happen so often its normal... one of our investigators is going to teach me how to koro karewe (cut karewe, the drink we drink that comes from the sap of
coconut trees) so that be a story worth tell when it happens.
so yeah thats it,
love yall
love Elder Berends.
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