Lots of walking, lots of rain,
lots of drunkards, going insane.
People are listening, people are not.
Some day's its cold, some days it's hot.
Well life on the mission, it's good once you see,
Some blessings from God, are the good company.
Not sure what I'm doing. I've just started to rhyme.
But now, what to do? Not much rhyme's with rhyme.
This week was long and hard.
I just got a high five from my companion for that :)
Legit though, It's been an AMAZING learning experience. All through out my mission I've progressed at an accelerated rate of learning. But it's so cool to see the different ways and in the different areas I can learn. And the different variety of experiences I run into that give me chances to learn. This life time truly is such an incredibly prepared experience for us to simply learn. It sure takes us a while, but we slowly but surely get there.
When Jesus Christ compares us to sheep, he's not far off. We all have a pretty good idea of how stupid sheep are. Like, legit, one of our senior couples told us some stories of watching sheep stare at a raging river, and then after a while, just jump in and then die. Stupid. Yet all throughout history people have taken care of them and valued them and watched over them. Sheep are valuable.
Like I said, Jesus wasn't far off. We're just a bunch of idiots running around and jumping in rivers (parable with me here). But we're still so SO valuable to our Heavenly Father. It's hard to imagine why he values us when he's so perfect and all knowing. But I guess with that, he's perfectly patient too. I sometimes have a hard time dealing with ONE imperfect person. He deals with billions. All. The. Time. He loves us so much. <3
This week, there were a couple days I did NOT want to proselyte. Nu-uh. No way. Not a bone in my body wanted to get up and go back outside in the rain to maybe run into someone who might be there to have a lesson. BUT I wanted to keep the commandments to receive the blessings (literally everything we do is at least somewhat selfishly based. I swear..). So, I bucked up and got out the door. In our mission, the "Goal" or 'Standard of Excellence' is 5 New investigators every week. those of you who've been reading my emails know that in Kitti we surpassed that easily every single week. Here? Not so much. We've gotten zero or one the past few weeks. But I had enough. I told God, this week we were going to get five new investigators. I would work, and he'd better provide. So I did. I put forth my best effort and I'm proud to say I did. And guess what :) We got 8 new investigators.
All of our new Investigators have come from teaching and working with less active families. Been working with the Less Actives a lot and It's been amazing. There are actually results and signs of progress. People have stopped chewing betel nut. People have come to church. Less actives have BROUGHT investigators to church WITH them! I can see how this beautiful tapestry of the lords work is being brought into my view as I watch certain areas of the Lords Vineyard grow and flourish. Some other areas begin to die, and others stay the same. But I can see where I'm needed and I can see where others were needed in the past. This work is beautiful and so divine, I am happy to take a part in furthering the work and loving people when they need it. This work is truly a labor of love.
okay, I'll stop now :) But I do want to say that sometimes we have an attitude of "Lets fix this". But in reality, none of us can to much to really 'fix' anything. All we need to do is just love and support. And then the problems usually work themselves out. If we were really suppose to go around fixing problems, Wouldn't God already be doing that? All he does is love and support our righteous desires. I think we should do the same.
Okay, I'll really stop now. Love you all! I hope you've had a good week!
Love, Sister Felt
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| Pohnpei Zone at Zone Conference last week |
Oh....
I forgot to tell the story of the Mutiny. Ha!
So one of our less actives is named Vicky and she's absolutly stellar. One of our Assistants, Elder Ieru, baptized her on Saipan almost a year ago. Now she's on Pohnpei and is just oh so fabulous :) Hasn't been to church in a while, but the last time she was, she went to Paliker and then found out that on her drive to Paliker she passed TWO other Mormon chapels. So she could have been going to church much closer this whole time. We visited her an she came to church a week ago.
She didn't come this week, so we stopped by to see her at her shop today on P-Day. She said she didn't come cuz her kid was sick. But she told us we needed to pray for her more. We asked why and she explained.
Her husband is from Kiribati and he's a fisherman. He's usually out to sea for 2 months and then comes back, but he's been gone for 7 months now. She just got a call from him yesterday and he's in the Marshall islands. The crew has gone a little Pirates of the Caribbean, and they've started fighting each other. There are mornings where crew members wake up and find their mates dead, assumed to be poisoned by others. Some men are just disappearing, thought to have been thrown overboard by another angry guy. Vicky's husband is the First something, Mate? I don't know. He has a title and is in charge of the crew. They haven't been happy with him and have gotten into lots of fights. So ya. We got to sit and listen to that fun story this morning :)
Also, yesterday was Sunday, and Sunday mornings all the men are drunk. We had a whole group of drunkards walk up to us, and one was trying really hard to be normal and ask if we could have a lesson sometime. I was kindly telling him "Yes of course. If you see us again, let us know and we for sure can." and then trying to walk away. Then one of his buddies comes behind him and his other friends who had walked away yell, "He's a thief! He's a thief!" The man shakes our hands and is staring at our bags trying to walk behind us. I didn't let him. He gave up and left. The whole time the first drunk is still trying to politely ask when we can have a lesson to 'tell stories' and 'learn more about the god man'. And then, the third man walks up. I haven't even talked to him yet and he yells, "pull out your bible!! Pull out your bibles NOW" oh my... "Tell me about Moses, I'll tell you WHATS UP." We didn't listen. and the first guy starts apologizing. "And what about that NOAH guy, huh?! TEll me about him!" We start to walk away "Oh ya, oh YA?! Alright... and DON'T COME BACK!" *stumble and fall down to sit on the side of the road* His friend is still apologizing. We walk away, and go to church.
The End :)
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