Week 11 - White Like Paper

Another week of hard work and a Zone Conference to get in the way of our proselyting..Haha just kidding, Zone Conference is great!! I really really loved it. Honestly a spiritual recharge after being in a tiny tiny branch and low active member area for a while. It was Stake Conference yesterday and Zone conference on Thursday. T'was grand. It's way different with so many missionaries here. I think there's 8 sisters and a LOT more Elders.

Pohnpei Zone

My companion Sister Behling is incredible and I love her so much. We have a hard time getting to bed on time because we're always talking and laughing and telling stories and making jokes :)

Sister Felt and Sister Behling

I'm not used to the local food yet. on yap we didn't get fed once. But here, everyone feeds you and you eat it all because it shows your love and appreciation for them. Mostly white rice. Soy sauce. Sometimes chicken. Ramen. Fish. I am not feeling great. Haha but it's fine! Oh! And they have Gosners milk here :) Kinda fun because it says LOGAN UTAH right on it! I love it :)

A taste of home!

I love white washing. It's great. So we've got 14 New investigators this week :) WahooOOO. We were pretty proud to report that. Our district is 6 of us. The Kitti(Kitchey) Elders which one is Elder Yamamoto, and Elder Pilimai (Starting Tight End on the BYU football team, freshman year. Solid guy. I really respect him. Also he knows psych and its the best) Then the Wone (wenna) elders Elder Brown (the elder that used to be in our area. hes our district leader and whitewashing his area with...) Elder Newill. He's brand spankin' new. We reported our 14 new investigators and beat their 11 :) So proud of us, we done did great.

The language is coming so well! I have had zero materials to study, but Sister Behling is incredible and has been writing down things and teaching me the language from scratch. I can understand the general idea and topics of conversation now and pray in Pohnpeian. Sister Behling also knows German, and a variation of chuukese and pingalapese, and morchluckese, and a bit of Kiribeti. Today we sat with a woman from another place that spoke another language. So between the three of us, we had 9, almost 10 languages :) (My Woleaian and the little bit of Yapese I picked up.) Pretty cool! The language of Pohnpeian says their T like ch and they roll their R's. also every B has become a P. Kinda cool :) still a lot of the ng sound too like in outer island.

Even though I can understand the general idea of the conversations now, I don't know everything. And on Wedensday (take into account that by Wednesday I had been meeting and talking to people for about 9 days) Sister Behling goes "Oh, by the way, Johnston said that you're a really good teacher, he just wishes you knew Pohnpeian. Also he said you're white like paper." I laughed and asked her to explain. She then said "oh, i probably should have told you. but every person we meet so far has either said something about you being really white, really skinny, or really beautiful. I just forgot to tell you." Haha she legit did!! But she taught me the words for White, Skinny, Smart and Beautiful so now I can pick those up. And she's right. My appearance is literally all people talk about haha. When school gets out and we're outside, I feel like everyone is whistling and hollering at us. It happens a lot. But then sometimes we're teaching someone and those same boys come home to us teaching their family :) Ha! Kinda funny but also weird. One of our--scratch that--our only member present, Megan, told us her conversion story and said that she started talking to the missionaries because she saw they were white and that was cool to her. She laughed and said "I dunno, by small and simple things I guess!" It's true. People are so intrigued by us and want to be around us, BECAUSE we are white. But guess what :) We turn it into a teaching opportunity :)

So around Wednesday last week, our water pump broke, and we ran out of water. So it has been an adventure trying to get water. On Fridayish (i dunno, days blurr) we were doing comp study and we began to hear rain outside. We quickly jumped up and ran outside and grabbed buckets and began colleting all the water we could. Then we remembered that we had a lot of dirty dishes, so we ran inside and grabbed them all and put them on top of our car (a toyota Yaris) with dish soap in them. It rained SUPER hard and by the time we were done and had washed the dishes in the rain, we literally looked like we had jumped in the ocean, head to toe soaking wet. It was pretty fun :)

We've met a lot of people who are very prepared to hear the gospel. And we've also met a lot of people who are so so about it. We're just trying to weed out the receptive from the nonreceptive so we can find EVERYONE who would be receptive. If that makes any sense.

ANOTHER funny story. We were teaching a lesson once, and it was all spiritual and great. And suddenly. this creature falls and lands on my face. A sticky gecko on my forehead/ eyebrow and hair. I freaked out but calmly brushed it off onto my hand and flicked it to the ground. It freaked out because it was out in the open, and ran underneath my skirt. Great. Haha it ended up okay, but NO ONE SAW. I don't even know. But then, we went out to the car and I backed the car up outside, and then a crab ran at me. Great. Then we go home, and I go to take a shower, and I open the door to the bathroom, and a gecko landed on the top of my head. Are. You. Kidding. Me. It was a night in Micronesia. Anywho, that was my week :) Love ya!

Love, Sister Felt

Pohnpei Sisters with Sister Poston