Week 58

What a week!!! I am SO happy to be back in the jungle!! But unlike Kitti, Uh is full of crazy party happy youth. Kitti was very respect, cultural, and grown up official. Uh... it's a little bit ghettoish. But I love it!!

Sister Felt and Sister Palanite

My companion is Sister Palanite! She's from Tonga and an absolute sweet, tender hearted, beast. Born and raised in the church with 2 parents who are still living together. She's the youngest and most all her siblings are married. Communication barriers are sometimes difficult, but we just tell each other we love each other and the have a LOT of trust. Occasionally there are moments where we connect, and we both realize we're on the same page, with the same purpose, and the same desires, and we are very happy and content in those moments. And then any other times if things get confusing, we always just go back to: We love each other. We have the same purpose. Neither of us are stupid. Hahahaha She asked me one night What it was I need my companion to do to make me happy (slightly broken english. But not bad). i said "Work hard and be diligent. Understand your missionary purpose. and Don't be stupid" Haha I said that because we had just had one of those connecting moments shortly before she asked me that where we both understood that both of us understood each other. It's one thing to understand each other. but It's another to make sure that both of you really understand that you both understand each other, instead of just blind faith.

Our gas money #aggies

My Pohnpeian is crap. I know nothing. hahahah I never really realized how LITTLE we used Pohnpeian in Kolonia! Not because we don't want to use it, but just because most people didn't speak it. Crazy. But now i'm speaking it all day every day 24/7 woot woot! Tuesday felt like how it felt when I went to Kitti for the first time. My brain was about to explode with all the lanugaes bouncing around in my head holy cow. but It's been so fun!

We have church up in the jungle in a really really old chapel. But a brand new chapel is just about to be dedicated and built! It should be... kasarawiala?.... dedicated....? by the end of this month. Yay!

Primary kids at church

Primary kids with toys that the Cerny's brought

Lots of our investigators say they cant be baptized due to permission issues. From parents or spouses or whatever. We've got investigators ranging from ages 8 to 60. Almost all have said they need permission. Gah! oh well. I'll update ya'll more about them in two weeks though becasue I'm going to Guam this week. chuukese! lol

okay. this email is long enough. love you all.

Sister Felt

Questions from Nancy to Nicole about her new area:
1. Describe your house/area. two big beds. one of them is crap. Palanite took it by force to be nice :) She's so sweet. our water comes from up in the mountian, our house is up in the middle of the jungle. we get water by going out and connecting our pipe to the main pipe that runs from a spring and goes by gravity. I take purely bucket showers.
2. Describe your church building/branch. old. one biggesh room the size of the elk room for the chapel area. four side rooms the size of our play house or a tiny bit bigger for the office, primary and something else. also up in a different part of the jungle.
3. What is your transportation? a really crappy old hundai. I hate the car. it's like driving a wash board the alignment is terrible. our key broke when taunauta and schow were in Uh and so now i'ts a metal key part and then pliers that you hold onto the key with and use to turn it. absolutely terrible. we're getting new cars at the end of this month.
4. Where is your companion from? tonga :)
5. Is it different being on the east side of the island? Sunrises vs. sunsets? not much, but we are closer to the ocean so I see it more often. we do hike every morning and can watch the sunrise :) but not over the ocean, there's a hill inlet thing that stretches out over where the sun rises.

6. Anything else you'd like to share
I LOVE YOU! we have a member present every day who is so cool. she's going to have to be rebaptized though because the church lost her record number. but she has her mission papers like all done. poor girl.
we dont' have a branch president.
i get to see the atonement work in people's lives and it's amazing. i'll tell you more about these cool stories someday when I can give it real justice. just know I'm helping people, and it's got nothing to do with numbers, but it feels so amazing and good. It's like that general conference talk the french guy gave about when he was a stake president and had all these goals but none of them got fulfilled. go read it!