Week 17 - Local Umbrellas

Heellloooo Family!! (Spiritually, that includes everyone. Because, ya know, we're all children of God)

How are you all??? Did you have as fantastic of a week as I did?! Maybe that's an exaggeration. I don't really know the difference between one week and another anymore. I was just working.

Writing emails in the Panasong Chapel

Anywho, We taught lots of people! Told Senrick about the word of Wisdom and that he needs to stop chewing Pwuh (beetelnut) and drinking Sakau. He nodded his head and talked about how it was hard and that he could do it and then laughed nervously because really, he doesn't want to stop, but he's trapped now because he knows what we say is true. Haha so ya, we'll see how it goes :) His daughters are solid though. Seriously a very funny family. They all yell at each other and have a super dry sense of humor. It's great.

Peeling bananas

A counterfeit and a real $20 from the ATM

Yesterday we taught Olga again. The American lady. She has a lot of Facebook sites and learns a lot about the Bible from that. She is honestly and truthfully seeking out Jesus and takes everything we say, and that the Book of Mormon says to be the word of God. But her husband Jim does not believe the Book of Mormon, and usually asks us prying questions attacking the faith. It's pretty subtle, but yesterday, he attacked with a fire. So I fired back :)

I said "You can attack me for my mistakes and my short comings, but don't you ever attack the path I am trying to walk. because everything I am trying to do, everything I have taught and testified of is solely to bring me closer to my God and my Savior Jesus Christ. So don't you ever tell me that this book is not true. I know the Book of Mormon is the Word of God. I know the Bible and the Book of Mormon support each other. And I know that if you read this book with a humble heart and a willingness to learn and accept the will of God, you will find knowledge. And you will discover truths that will bring you closer to God than you ever could on your own." Olga felt the spirit, I was on fire, it was great!

P-Day!

But this week we've found all the possibly active members in our area. Not a single person in our area is recorded as active (because they're not) but some are very close. We have 4 priesthood holders who could be active, their wives (who are more likely to be active), and then of those 4 couples about 3 children who could be active as well. And then another lone woman. Those are the members in Pehleng. The ones who live closest to Kitti are 7 miles away from the chapel. And no one has a car. This week, the members talked about bringing a unit back to Pehleng. I think it will happen :) And if it does, we will definitely have a lot more members at church, and investigators that are able to come. No investigators at church this week. But we still have dogs and chickens walking through sacrament meeting :) It's a party.

Learning Pohnpeian

Our house

Our kitchen

Here's a story. We went to go see Tentale (Chawn-chaw-lee) way deep in the jungle on the top of the mountain where she lives, and we had a great lesson with her and all was good. We were hiking back and passed one house along the trail back to the road and it started raining really hard. So we stopped under a bunch of banana trees on our way out to wait out the rain. One of the men at the house noticed. So he walked towards us and used his machete to chop of a giant leaf, and when I say giant, I mean HUGE. The leaf was literally bigger than our car and was all held together. He gave it to us, we said Kaselehlie, and off we went! I just held onto the stem, Sister Behling walked behind me, and neither of us got wet :) It was pretty darn cool.

Just me and my goat friend

Love you all!!
Sister Felt