Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 6:47 PM (MDT)
Monday, July 18, 2016 11:47 AM (Vanuatu)
sooooo a whole ton of stuff happened this week. one of them
being i am now a proud father.(trainer)
on wednesday we had a new elder from the mtc come and stay
at our house. his name, elder 'Atuake. from tonga. cool guy. and so we asked
the travel elders(dudes in charge of flights, and putting missionaries where
they're supposed to go) where he was going. they said he was going to santo. i
asked who his companion was going to be. 'uhhhh.... talk to the zone leaders.'
and thus i found out i was assigned via emergency transfer(just meaning not at
the usual 6 week interval)(a transfer is 6 weeks long) to go to santo. OMG
santo is amazing.
so found out we were leaving on thursday. left on sunday.
and today is our first full day in santo. great stuff. the air here smells like
the air at nana and papa's house(salty sea breeze). there are sooooooo many
coconut trees. oh my goodness. vanuatu's 3 biggest industries are tourism, kava
exporting(kava is a plant the root of which when prepared can make you drunk),
and coconut oil/coconut product exporting. so there's coconut plantations here.
like one of the villages in my area is literally a part of a plantation. like.
when we went to our house for the first time(its a really nice house) there was
a coconut just lying on the ground. like. freshly fallen from the tree in our
front yard.
anywho. santo. the biggest island in vanuatu. only got
missionaries on the south side. my area is called tanavoli. my area is
basically a section of the main road and all the villages that branch off from
that section. my zone leaders, one of whom was the last missionary in my new
area, showed us around to the members so they'd know who we were and generally
how to find the villages. good stuff. our house is really nice. there's a big pamplamouse
tree in the front yard with like 20 pamplamouse on it. and we have a washing
machine and a shower and hot water and a stove. truly awesome apartment.
the first day we didn't have any food and it was sunday so
the zone leaders gave us some crackers and some rice. truly manna from heaven.
we're going shopping today so we'll be all stocked up by the end of the
day.
so my new companion. my first and maybe only pikinini. elder
'Atuake. he's really cool. from tonga. don't know too much about him yet as we
have only been in the companionship for a day or so by now. oh yeah. i guess i
should talk a little about my last week in freshwota.
so it was really bitter sweet. like. missionary work is
really hard in that aspect cuz like. you get to know these people so so so
well. their problems and trials. you feel for them. pray for them. love them.
and then ya gotta leave...
had a lot of last lessons and good byes. didn't have very
much success baptism wise but the people we taught and who the elders there now
are going to continue to teach, benefited from me being there. for this is my
work and my glory to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of
man.
been thinking about a conference talk given by elder
uchtdorf? that talks about a statue of christ that was destroyed. and the
people were able to restore the whole statue from the rubble except for the
hands. which were destroyed beyond repair. and the people argued wheter they
should hire a sculptor to make new hands. but ultimately they left the statue
with out hands, but put a inscription on the platform of the statue. which
reads 'you are my hands'.
what im striving to be as a missionary. his hands to
accomplish his work. his hands to mold elder atuake into the best elder in the
world. gahhhh so much work to do. and so little timeeeee
that's all for now.
Elder Hyatt VI
(pictures are kinda self explanatory? /i forgot which ones i
attached and am too lazy to look at them with this slow computer. whoops.
sorries.)
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