Week 8

This week I've been home bound due to my companion not feeling well. Shes getting better but since Tuesday I've been stuck inside. About Friday or Saturday I lost it patience wise and I moved the kitchen table and put on my hiking shoes, filled my backpack with a bunch of weight and walked around in circles for about 30 minutes. Varrying from brisk walking, to high knees, lunges, and running. It was awesome. I felt pretty stupid, but as I was just walking, my mind began to drift away into that place it goes whenever I hiked up in the mountains. I just kinda forgot about where I was and was lost in thought. Weird cuz i was in a kitchen, but still.

Tuesday morning though we went and did service for President Matthew. We showed up at his little place and sat on his porch and he made us eat local pancakes (fried flour and sugar. Really good) and raw sugar cane. You just chew on it and suck out the sugar then throw away the stalk. It was crazy cool :) Then we went and transplanted banana trees, fed the piglets, and weeded with our machetes. On our way back, Margarita (his wife who we worked with planting everything) grabbed us a couple pineapples and had her son climb a coconut tree and chop us down a couple of young coconuts. Then we went back, ate some more pancakes and sugar cane, cut open the pine apple, drank the coconut water, and watched the grey clouds roll in over the ocean and felt the cool breeze and enjoyed just sitting chatting. We also made madamads/nunu's which were flower crowns :) And then they gave them to us and sent us on our merry way! Now that's not exactly what I'd call service, but the people on this island are just so giving!

The rest of the day we contacted a lot of people and then Sister Jones got sick. I've been reading a lot in the book of mormon since we've been home bound (From Alma  29 to Helaman 14). And I'm a BIG fan of Teancum. Sister Jones say's hes an idiot, but oh my gosh that guy is just a BOSS. He's just SO COOL! I Love his story!

Anywho, That's about all I've done this week. Lots of reading, walking in circles, learning the language, and cleaning. I hope you're all doing all those good things that keep Christ the priority ;) Love ya lots!

P.S. The Centipedes here are legit poisonous and if they bite you that whole appendage just swells up and you cant move for like four days. And a few weeks ago, there was one on my pillow. Like 8 inches long and just disgusting. I grabbed my leather gloves and picked up my pillow and shook the centipede off outside. 

Aside from that, we always have geckos all over our apartment. They're just everywhere all the time. We've taken to practice throwing pencils at them. They mostly stick on the ceilings and walls, and they run away from moving things. But I've gotten to be a pretty good shot at hitting them with the pencils like a throwing knife.

Elders Winger, Marble (DL), Wolfgram (ZL), Bryant (came with me), Neilson (ZL), Emor (From Chuuk)
Me, Sister Jones