Week 18 - Lenger

Hi Fam! We're going to go out to an outer island today with beaches and stuff. So I'll email in several hours. Have a good Sabbath, enjoy the cold, I'll tell you how the beach and the ocean waves are ;)

Hi Fam, I'm back! Sounds like Thanksgiving was a blast! I've heard it's been unusually hot in Utah this year :/ odd. I'll pray for snow for you all ;) For Thanksgiving we had district meeting which was okay, and then at 5 went to have thanksgiving as an island :)

Pohnpei Missionaries - Thanksgiving 2017

Everyone brought a dish, and Behling made killer mashed and augrauten (i dunno how to spell) potatoes. It was really good. There was AWESOME dessert too. Pineapple cobbler, apple crisp, a philipino desert with graham crackers and sweetened condensed milk (everyone here loves that milk.) It was really good. After we all ate, we watched a movie: The Spirit of the Game. People kissed at the beginning and in the middle and it was great. :) People here don't touch each other really. PDA is not allowed in any form. Handholding or kissing. So ya, it was a good movie ;) After the movie Sister Behling and I felt so normal, it was great :) 

Thanksgiving Night

Friday was weekly planning, and Saturday we mweted for this family and I used my machete again. I went on an exchange to Mand with Sister Leslie. She's from Idaho and she's pretty cool :) We also went to see Tontole in the jungle again, and got fresh coconuts again. didn't rain this time though so we were able to survive without a tree umbrella :)

Church yesterday was pretty bad. 33 people at church but only 3 were actually from our area. every sunday morning we're basically the telephone for the driver (President Route) in Kitti who comes and picks everyone up in Pehleng, and then everyone all around Kitti. It's pretty sad and pretty rough. But all is okay. 

Looking a little discouraged at church

So this island we just went to, Lenger, is just a cute $7 boat ride away from Pohnpei. No one really lives on it except for a few people. And we just wandered around through the jungle finding old things, tromping through the jungle, and finding random beaches. 

We found what looks like a really old plane take off/landing point. That's where we got in the water the most :) Stuck our feet in. The water was just perfect. We all wanted to jump off the dock thing and just swim. It was so clean and clear and pure and blue. We were all dying. 

I took pictures and videos underwater of all the beautiful fish! I found Dori, and the black and white fish. 

I saw locals (back on Pohnpei) at the dock fishing with a peice of chicken, a line, and a beer bottle. that's all. No pole or anything :) One of the sisters brought banana bread cupcakes and so we fed a bit to the fishes. They got so close to me, I don't know if they've ever seen people before. But it was pretty cool. 

Two sets of elders came (One was Elder Charlton from my intake) and three sets of sisters. Two of the sisters that came will be going home in 13 days. Next transfer is in two mondays I think? Maybe 3. I dunno. But it was really fun to chat with them and just party on an island!

Love you all! Hope you're having a great week!! I'll get to email more next week.

Sister Felt