Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2017 3:27 PM (MST)
Monday,
November 27, 2017 9:27 AM (Vanuatu)
did thanksgiving
happen? i don't even know cuz that's totally not a thing here. i told my comp
'it was Thanksgiving yesterday!' and he said 'thanksgiving for what?'
this week seemed
quite long and short at the same time. life is odd like that. well. mission
life.
we had a lot of
good experiences this week. we didn't put any appointments for this week cuz we
thought we were gonna go to malekula for our zone leader-district leader
exchange but the flight got pushed back and such and now we will be going this
week! but it was a challenge this week to have meaningful stuff to do all day
everyday with no appointments planned.
sister tucker (the
mission nurse) came to santo! she really likes me for some reason. like always
saying. oh elder hyatt you're so organized.. it's so good that you're the zone
leader here now...ect ect... and i just stand there like heh.. heh.. 😅 yeahhhh....😓 but we spent a good
while this week with her cuz the senior couple here just came and they don't
know where all the missionary houses are but i elder hyatt former maintenance
elder of the santo zone knows all of the missionary houses and their various
problems. which was great cuz i was very helpful but also not so great cuz it
took us out of our area... the ups and downs of zone leader lyfe. you get to
use a truck! but you gotta fix people's houses. you get a nice big house! but
people come and stay in it periodically and trash it. ups and downs. good
stress! i just wish i could work in my area more than i can at the
moment.
sister tucker gave
me/us in santo conference liahonasssssss!!!!!!!!!! oh my g wizz this is
amazing. do you fellows realize. how fetching amazing our church is. do you get
it???? good gollllly gosh im glad to be able to read the words of the lord and
saturate my thoughts with that prophetic council. i hope you fellows do the
same!!!!
we went contacting
in this beautifullll place. they call it crossroads cuz all the houses are
quite close to a major crossroads. but it's also quite close to the ocean where
there's a little island off the coast called tangoa and so we just followed a
lil path from the main road to some of the houses and bam! scenic visa, black
sand beach, wind in your face, ocean smells and sounds. man. but! that's not
why i went there! we found 3 families while there! one of which being the
pastor of another church! it was odd cuz they welcomed us so readily and then
as a side comment 'oh yeah my husband is the pastor of...' heh.. invite all to
come unto christ! and missionaries had never contacted in that area before!!!
it's kinda funny
cuz like. in vila right now it's super dry season like people be #strugglin for
water but here in santo it rains like every other day. so our poor lil truck
that doesn't have mud tires is stugglin in some of these bush roads. but! i
haven't gotten it stuck yet!
we're working with
a lot of couples at the moment. like couples who whence they're married it's a
insta baptism. cuz one of them or one of their parents is members and they love
the church it's just. gotta get married. and to get married you gotta pay for
your wife. so your wife's dad has to be on santo. and you gotta get all the
money or if in the bush and no gat money. get ready the pigs. and then take all
that from the grooms house to the father of the bride's house. and exchange.
wife for 90,000+ vatu or some pigs. and then comes the marriage feast. and
everyone gets drunk. all in all. marriage is a pretty pig deal here. heh... get
it. a pretty. pig.. deal... (cuz she be pretty and gettin traded for some
pigs...) heheheheh puns are the best.
this upcoming week
is gonna be superrrr busy! we goin to malekula tomorrow! and then we have a
marriage/baptism on friday(church married. they already paid for her with the
pigs and such on the 11th so no drunk people just people dressed in whiteeeee)
hopefully i'll have some doooooppppeeee pictures to show you fellows in a
week!
this is probably
the most responsibility and stress i've had my whole life. but! it's all good!
planning and goals and writing stuff down takes away like 75% of the stress!
and also my comp likes/has taken upon himself some of the most stressful things
(like weekly reports of key indicators for conversion) so life is good!
that's all! make
every moment count!(for good!)
elder hyatt vi
my comp and i were
talking about it and I ONLY HAVE 14 MONDAYS LEFT BEFORE I DIE
GGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHATTTTTTTTTTT NOOOOOOOOO *the last lap music
speeds up even more*
Pictures:
1- the baptism of
steven david fari!!! i baptized his mom mayna (she's in the picture too!) back
in my time in banban! steven has down syndrome so teaching him took a long time
and baptizing him was a lil scary but it turned out good!!!!
2,3,4- my area
parts 1 thourgh 3 (taken as i was driving down out of narango back towards
town. that island down there is tangoa!)
5- it's my district! elders hyatt and toaniuea(Kiribati!),
(elder toa acting as district and zone leader at the same time)
and sisters pamande(Philippines!), meyer(Cananda!),
koroso(Vanuatu!) and lealaiauloto(Samoa!)!
sis pamande came this transfer and her trainer meyer and
sister lealaiauloto came just last transfer! so many babies!!!👶im
so oldddddd 👴
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