time flys like a arrow but fruit flies like a banana

Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2018 6:48 PM (MST)
           Monday, February 12, 2018 12:48 PM (Vanuatu)

hello friends. it feels like just yesterday i was emailing you fellows. wow. what is time and why won't it slow down!

so many things happened this week! highlights as they come to mind on 3. 2. 1. 

so we found some former investigators of elder poteki and elder eager (in lowni a area that got whitewashed and given to the district leader aka me) and they're ready to be baptized! and they're gonna be baptized this saturday! huzzah!

one of the really strong faithful members in the lowni area is abu jonah who happens to be the custom chief (called paramount chief) of a large chunk of villages in the lowni area! he's really old and really cool and really passionate about the church and about missionary work! and he wears socks and sandals like the adorable old man that he is! #lifegoals

the mission pres came to our island like out of the blue! he rang me on tuesday morning and was like. im coming on saturday at 9! so we got to have a rather personal meeting with pres g just us the kula squad(6 missionaries total) and got some more A++ counsel. what a guy. what a bro. what a president. 12/10 would reccomend as a mission pres. 

one challenge we're having a lil hard time with is this river called bunkamo. fetchin bunkamo. it broke the bridge a few years back so all the peeps gotta just run through it to get to the other side but the lil mini cyclone that made me shaka shake and jumpa jump 2 weeks ago gave it enough water power to break up the road on the other side so we can't go to the people on the other side of that river... (a certain adele song comes to mind) sadness. hopefully the chinese here(chinese are the only ones to do public works projects here for some reason)  will fix it soon so we can go teach and baptize (there's 14 peeps in aulua waiting to be taught and baptized but fetching bunkamo.) and help the members and people of tisman and aulua(the units on the other side of the river)!

still havn't been to wala small island or brenwe or liviamp yet. gahhhh i only have like. 3 sundays left in malekula! what the freak! asdjgalskdgjbaqw;eoius Time!!!! freaking slow down theres too much stuff to do!

i went to the small island of uripiv to do a baptismal interview for the norsup elders (garciano and altarejos) got to ride on a lil boat with a boat man that wore a cool hat and glasses. cool guy. uripiv is so beautiful! everyone is so friendly there!

i might get to eat shark today! it's gonna be great! i hope! for those of you who are curious. my daily diet includes the following basically every day of my life on kula

breakfast: lemon tea and bread or crackers with spreads(whichever spreads we haven't run out of yet)

lunch: mercy of the members: sometimes corn or navel or mango or semboro or if we're really lucky fish or laplap. 

dinner: boiled root crop(taro or kumala) and stew of corned beef from a can, instant noodles, cabbage and peppers. pretty good. funny story.

on tuesday night of this week. used some peppers bought from the market. thought they were sweet(like bell peppers) they were not. put like 4 in the nightly soup. hottest. food. ever... made the sides of my mouth really hot so i thought. i'll wash my face. what a bad bad bad decision... lesson learned. don't wash your face shortly after cutting peppers. 

woot nice long email for yah. give yourself a pat on the back if you read it all. *pat pat* good work team. keep it up! see ya next weekkkkkk

ale ta 

that's all for now 

elder hyatt vi