Sent: Sunday, May 15,
2016 6:33 PM (MDT)
Monday, May 16, 2016 11:33 AM (Vanuatu)
so. this week. well every week.
goes by both really slow and really fast. like. on tuesday
it feels like it's been forever and then all of a sudden it's saturday.
so this week we had quite a few happenings worth mentioning.
so one old guy this week. like the land lord for one of of my investigators. we
went to visit our investigator and the old dude was waiting at the edge of his
property and told us emphatically that he didn't want us there and that we
weren't welcome. but in really fast bislama that i didn't pick up all of it.
but yeah. that was an experience. and it woulda been mildly discouraging but
the thing is we ran into our investigator on the street a day or so later and
she was like. ''he's old and catholic he doesn't like any missionaries. but i
don't care. you guys come back next week on my day off but come from the other
side of his property and i'll be waiting and we can talk just off his
property.'' :) that was p funny and encouraging and such.
so my apartment is really close to the mission office
compared to other apartments of missionaries and so whenever there is a elder
or elders that are traveling to a different island, or just arriving from the
mtc or just finishing their mission, they stay at our house for a night or two
and then leave. so we had 3 travel elders who were brand new from the mtc and
we hosted them for two nights. it was weird. and fun because. they didn't know
a single bit of bislama and it's like. realizing how much of bislama i actually
know and can teach a little bit. 
'nother happening. the pictures. so there was a couple in my
district's area that the husband is a amputee and the wife had a stroke a while
ago. so it's really hard for them to do yard work. so we (most of my district
and some of another district) came and helped cut grass, weed and such. and
then after piling it all up and burning it because the trash service here costs
100vatu for one trash bag and a lot of people can't afford that. anyway.
the pictures. were all of the people that were there helping and also a picture
of me being a pyro and using only a coal and a dead coconut branch to light a
fire. good stuff.
so as far as the whole 100vatu for a trash bag. me and my
companion didn't know about that and we didn't know how to throw out the trash
so it kinda just accumulated in our back yard for like. a whole transfer(6
weeks) and then we bought some of the special trash bags and it was super gross
throwing it all out. tied grocery bags around my wrists so i could grab the
stuff without it touching my hands. filled 3 really big trash bags. but now our
apartment is really clean so. it's all good.
and for those of you at home who want to learn a bit what
it's like to learn bislama. one house we visited had those hung up. like
kindergarten level stuff but bislama.
spiritual stuff. so i now have 6 investigators that could be
progressing a ton. but they are always busy or out of town or some such and
never come to church. so. yeah. one thing that i've really learned in my
personal study is that all things that we make in the gospel. this church.
going to church. following the commandments. praying. are all acts of faith.
and greater faith brings greater blessings. so. faith. important stuff.
and lst but not least. i asked one elder who has been on his
mission for a long time. for 20 months already. and asked him what one piece of
advice did he think i could benefit from the most. and he said "don't be
strict. just relax." and i've been over-analyzing that for a while.
that's all for nowwwww
Elder Hyatt VI
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