malekula! and a marriage!

Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 2:57 PM (MST)
         Tuesday, December 05, 2017 8:57 AM (Vanuatu)

dude zone leader life! well. santo zone leader life can be really busy at times. really busy but really fun. i just wish i could spend more time in my areaaaaa all my investigators are getting sick(spiritually) cuz we can't visit them that muchhhh

so we went to malekula! and we did a lot of stuff! including checking all the missionary houses! and meeting the district president of malekula! and going on splits with elder clark and elder gundaya! (elder gundaya came this transfer and elder clark came last transfer! lil babies who desperately need training! so we spent a big chunk of time while in malekula trying to pass a year and 9 months worth of experience to them in 2 days. 

when we actually went on splits we went to one of their areas called norsup. (i went with elder clark and elder toa went with elder gundaya to a area called wala/rano) anywho. we went and there was this one area called tautu in which the whole community/ the pastors of the community have decided that they don't want any missionaries of any other faiths coming into their village. which made me really sad! cuz those people are never gonna hear the message of the restoration! they're never gonna be able to be baptized by one holding the priesthood authority of god cuz they too dang strong head! 

but it was good cuz we went to the other village/community (smol tautu) where there's a number of members and we found some people who are ready to be baptized among those! huzzah! helping elder clark and elder gundaya have success in their areas! cuz they both so young in the mish they just had almost no idea what they're doing... how to contact or how to answer strong head questions. but hopefully they all good now! 

then we came back! and we had a marriageeeeeeee!!!!!! sickkkkkkk oh my good golly gosh it was so great. so matan and joy. started investigating the church like over a year ago. but they were waiting on joy's dad to return from mota so that they could have the custom marriage and then the church marriage after with subsequent baptism. and they got custom married last month and they got married and baptized on fridayyyyyy so greattttt i was like literally smiling the whole fetching time and my cheeks hurt. wow. 

other cool stuff that happened/ is starting to happen! a area of ours called crossroad. has never really had missionaries go that deep into it like contacting or teaching wise. but! we started some and theres a bunch of people who are completely down to hear and understand and perhaps eventually join the church of jesus christ of latter day saints! like even pastors and elders of other churches are asking us to come and teach them. it's so sick oh my goodness. it's so great to be able to testify about christ and the story of the restoration and the book of mormon. i've felt the spirit these past weeks (if possible) even more than ever before on my mish. wowowowowowow life is so good but so short omg im almost going home. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

the ban on district activities was lifted this last week! so we had a district activity yesterday! (emailing today cuz of a public 'holiday' yesterday, everyone gets a day off work to watch football....) we took a bunch of pix and climbed a nabanga tree(so grateful i've been doing exercise every morning cuz all that exertion was really hard for some of the others in my district!) and played a little volleyball! and hopefully we'll have another this next week! gahhhhhh next week is the end of the transfer! whhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaattttttttttt

and on wednesday i go to gaua until saturday to train and help the gaua elders! and revisit my old area! im so stoked to go back to gauaaaaaa but i also want to work in my areaaaaa

too many stuffs. sorry for another book. a gold star to you if you read the whole thing. lavem yufalalalalala alllleeeeeee

Pictures:

1.      elder hales. what a legend. look at that face. 

2.      malekula squaddddd

3.      cool pix taken from the planeeee 

4.      just walkin to the next appointment 

5.      the old airport. got wrek'd by a cyclone. now they use a lil shack.

6.      the new airport

7.      it's pineapple season!!!! so many pineapples! they sell them at the market for no joke. 20-200 vatu. 200 vatu ones being the size of my head. that's matan cutting up a pineapple when we were waiting for the baptismal interview!

8.      the big book of marriages!

9.      pikininis love the selfie (at the marriage!!!!!)

10.  AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

11.  TTTTHHHEYYYY BE MARRIEDDDDDD

12.  wedding cake with no plates!!!! i made a banana cake too! 2 cakes! yay!

13.  cuttin the cakeeeee gahhh they so greatttt

14.  the little rain pond thing that we had the baptism in!

15.  the baptism squaddddd!!!!!!!! Wooooootttttt

16.  district activity pix! big food!

17.  taking aesthetic pix with the name tags on the beach. sick.

18.  piece of drift wood? i think you mean a cool place to put your nametag on!

19.  and i tried to take some good timed shots like this but none of them really turned out well. *shrug*

20.  messing around on the beachhhh ahah

21.  so many pix

22.  and hand stands

what a great time. i also ripped my shirt while climbing the nabanga. but my camera had already died at that point. so. sadness. i'll try and copy them from sister meyer.