E too te vaiua
Talofa everyone! It has been another great week here
in Tuvalu, and it seems like the time is running way too fast. This week
is transfer week, so I only have 6 more weeks until I leave! I really
don't want to leave because I love it here so much, so I'm not very happy with
the time moving by so fast. But hopefully I can make these next 6 weeks
worth it!
One thing about our house here in Tuvalu. We seem to
have a flock of chickens running around all the time, and they're really
annoying. The roosters really like to cockadoodledoo and it's driving me
insane! Everyone says they're the Tuvaluan alarm clock but the one by our
house goes off from 5 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon! When Elder
Pomate was here we used a green laser we bought at the chinese shop to chase
them away, but now he is in Fiji and Tuvalu is out of green lasers. I'm
still working on a solution that doesn't include me running outside and chasing
them away!
This week the work has been pretty good. The highlight
of our week was the baptismal interview with S______.....she passed! I'm so
excited, and she should be baptized on Saturday if everything works out!
I had the opportunity to do her interview (because we have no district leader)
and it was amazing. She has been waiting a long time for this and is so
excited to be baptized!
Last Monday, as usual, we went and played basketball with
our recent convert, Teruka, and his friends. Well, Teruka's brother came
and played too, and we started to have some friendly trash talk as we played
against each other (it's the best way to make friends here in Tuvalu:))
Anyway, I challenged him and said if I won he had to come to church on
Sunday. And with a incredible combination of my church ball skills and
the fact that Tuvaluans are horrible at basketball, I won and he showed up to
church on Sunday!! The best part is he liked it and wants to start taking
lessons! So I guess church ball is an inspired program:)
The faith of Tuvaluans is awesome! They all have been
praying for rain because of the drought and their prayers were answered: it
rained almost all day on Saturday and Sunday and the drought is over! I
know that prayers are answered when we believe!
Have a great week!
Alofa atu,
Elder Harris
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