Week 63 - Whoa

I'M SO STOKED ABOUT THE TEMPLE I HAD NO IDEA. I also had no idea it was general conference THIS weekend. There are SOOOOOOOOO many missionaries going to guam this week. instead of the usual 15-20 missionaries on that island, this week there will be 50!!!!!!!!!! because of all the trainers and trainees and zone and sister training leaders and their companions on the islands where there are only 1 set of elders/sisters. crazy wild fun :)

Sister Palanite at our house in Uh

I've got lots to deal with right now. Hundreds of emails about MLC for tomorrow. I'm staying in Uh and training. I'm picking up a new missionary when I go to Guam this week for MLC. Sister Palanite is going to Kitti with sister Bennett. Sister Schow is being transferred to Guam whitewashing an area and training. Fun :) Sister Caldwell and Sister Teriitaohia are still the same in Kolonia. Basically every single other area on the island changed. myself and the zone leaders and the brand new missionary in one area of our Zone are the only missionarys who did not move around. CRAZY!

Okay ya wow so they'res a temple on Guam? That's pretty neato. General Conference didn't get breathed a word here on Pohnpei, so we'll all freak out about it in a month.

THIS week we worked our guts out despite a large lack of understanding and communication. It's just hard when you don't understand one another. And it's not like either of us had bad intentions! It's just hard. But we still got lots of good work done and got two lovely friends of ours to church on Sunday :) AND developed some great relationships with Less Active Members and their non member husbands.

Walking with our two investigators!!!
They're soooo good. We're bros. If a sister can be a bro. And I very much can.

About the less active member, her name is Margarihta Sahm and shes a RM. She 'married' a Pohnpeian man who is not a member and they have a cute little girl. We've never met the husband, and we've been having a large problem with the husbands of all the women we're working with. They don't like us, don't wanna talk to us, and avoid us. and they're keeping their wives from being baptized. Or at least that's the excuse the wives give.

ANYWAYS.

We met Margarihta's husband on Saturday :) The relationship with her is rocky as it is, but we sat down and chatted for a bit. Then the husband came out of a room and pulled out one of those soft, zipper gun cases and pulled a small gun out of it. Guns are illegal on Pohnpei. But a few people have some strong bb guns for shooting birds. I was curious so I asked what he had there. He said 'gun', and I asked if I could see it. He pulled it out of the case, and then to my surprise, he unloaded those familiar .22 shells out of the chamber and my heart leaped! AN ACTUAL RIFLE. oooooohhhhh I got soo excited! Not just because of the gun, but because of what the gun means here on Pohnpei. This man was a hunter! I asked what he had it for, and sure enough!!! He hunts deer!! Margarihta said he killed a buck JUST LAST WEEK. Oh my gosh I was FREAKING out!! She pulled out her phone and showed me the pictures of the deer he shot. He said (impressively) the deer weighed a whopping 130 pounds. I looked at the pictures and then smiling like a fool said "I'm a hunter too!" He looked surprised, and then we chatted for a bit about how we hunt in the states and how they hunt here on Pohnpei. So funny :) Then he started to gather some things and said he was actually leaving right then to go hunt up in the mountains for the night. ooooohhhh oh my soul LOOONNNGNGGED to go with him!!! Apparently it showed on my face because margarihta laughed and said "Maybe she wants to go too! When you get back sister felt, he'll take you and you can kill a deer too"

They have our phone number now and will call us when he shoots a deer again.

Give it 2 more months and we'll have him coming to church :) Friendships are the best.

Breaking our fast

I don't know what else to write about. Teaching a lot of people who are catholic and don't want to be baptized but said they're happy to hear our teachings. So we're hoping to have the spirit whisper to their hearts that these things are true. And then after that confirmation is made we will help them recognize that to follow the path of Jesus Christ, they need to experiment upon our words and come to church, and then some day be baptized :) We'll see how this goes.

Love you all!! Enjoy general conference and don't eat too much junk.
Sister Felt