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Sunday, April 24, 2016 6:19 PM (MDT)Monday, April 25, 2016 11:19 AM (Vanuatu)
so. this week.
i tried quite a few new things this week. such as making
coconut milk. a fresh coconut is only like 50 vatu (50 cents) here so. i've
learned how to effectively open a coconut. and how to make fresh coconut milk.
tastes so goodddddd. also i tried a native dish here. called laplap. it's kinda
like mashed potatoes. a root crop. but it's banana root or casava root. boiled
and then cooked in leaves with hot rocks on top. it's pretty good. the picture
of mama jenny is her with a bunch of laplap she just made. it takes a long time
to make so i haven't personally made it but it tastes ok. better than semboro.
semboro is kinda the same but made of bananas and ground cabbage cooked in
leaves. to be honest it(semboro) kinda made me gag the first time i ate it. but
the thing is if you don't eat all of the food they give you you're
disrespectful. so. but it's all good.
my comp elder omilig is a pretty good cook. he has a lot of
philipino recipes up his sleeve due to the fact that he's philipino and so
learning how to make those dishes and such. p good. turns out. apparently a lot
of missionaries over spend their support here. and so we've had like. a zone
training all about it and also a district meeting. but apparently im really
cheap with my money. like. we're supposed to use no more than 5000 vatu a week.
(50$ USD) and the food here is really cheap. so i buy plenty of food enough for
both me and my comp for that much. and then splitting the bill. i guess im
pretty thrifty due to my short college life and budgeting and such.
as far as spiritual experiences. it's been pretty tough this
week because we have a few progressing investigators(mama jenny being one) and
less actives and recent converts that we visit. but none of them come to
church.... it's honestly kinda frustrating and i don't know how to imbue them
with the desire to come to church.., but. we've been guided by the spirit. my
comp and i. without a doubt. one time i thought that we'd go to one little
village to talk with the pikininis (kids, anyone under 16) and we started
talking to the pikininis a little and a dude from the village that we had a
return appt with once came out and talked to us. he had a lot of religious
questions. and honestly searching for truth. like. he'd talked to jehovah's
witnesses for 5 years. and he's really researched a lot. great lesson with him.
and he talked english. so it was soooooo much easier to express my emotions and
thoughts to him. good stuff.
also. that bug. we sprayed permythrin around our apartment.
so that there'd be less bugs. once one misquito bit me 14 times in one night.
it was so gratifying to kill that bug. anyway. the big milibug. it's poisonous.
and so. right after we sprayed permythrin (bug poison/deterrant) i found that
dead in our hallway. fun stuff.
that's all for nowwwww
Elder HyattVI
