Hello Everyone
Things have been pretty good. We taught a lot of people
this week it was a lot of fun.
Sorry about the letter last week, I don't have the rest.
I am not sure where it went. I hope you get it all this time.
Dad
Sounds like the game was a lot of fun. I am not sure how
much I would have enjoyed that. 20,000 people are a lot of people. I don't
think that would be to fun for me. The Elder that fell of was half Tongan and
half Samoan. I never met the elder, but it is still really really sad. I
couldn't imagine how his companion is feeling, let alone the parents. Glad you enjoyed Switzerland. That is really
fun that you sat next to the brother of Brother Wooley. Crazy how small the
world really is. Yes my mission is tough. Don't worry. It is work is hard, and
there are many problems on the island that we as missionaries face, but I don't
like to focus on that. That stuff is boring. The exciting stuff is on the
success that we have. I guess that is why I don't share the hard things going
on. I don't like to talk negative about things or people. I just like to keep
things positive.
Question 1: How is the zone doing?
Answer: We are doing pretty good. It is a little hard being a zone
leader. Everything that goes wrong comes straight to us.
Question 2: What
made you smile this week?
Answer: The
baptism we had. It was great. The boy’s name is M*ckey. He is super awesome. And
we have the same birthday, May 26th. It was funny when we found that out. We
are going to celebrate our birthdays together.
Question 3: How many lessons and with member's present? –
Answer:
we had 27 lessons this week, and 15 with a member present. It was an awesome
week.
Question 4:
Now that you're in Colonia, have you met with any island visitors?
Answer: I actually
don't teach in the city, I am just in the Colonia branch. The city is the sister’s area. I am still
teaching in the village. So I still don't see many tourists.
Question 5: How does someone get to be an island chief?
Answer: They are borne into it. It runs in the family. If your dad was
the chief, when he dies, if you are the oldest son, you will be the next chief,
it will forever stay in that family unless they all die.
Question 6: Are any of the young men on the
island planning to serve missions?
Answer: Yes several of the recent converts
go teaching with us all the time. They want to serve a mission. And a couple
boys from Thool would like to serve as well.
Question 7: Do you
remember your first week on the island... compared to now, what has changed the
most for you?
Answer: I can remember the
first week fairly well. At first everything was new, now this is my life.
The people, the surroundings, it
is home to me. Not being able to speak to the people in their native language,
and now being able to. It is awesome. At first I felt that I was in a strange
land, I loved it, but it was strange, now I just feel like I am home.
Mom
Note: This letter was lost in the email message… combining two letters into one.
I am glad that you had fun teaching with the sisters. I
know that they really loved your help. That is good that they were bold. If
they were not members already, did they invite them to be baptized? We are
supposed to, on the very first lesson!!! Keep working with the sisters. I know
that you can help them. You know like everyone in Chico.
Question 8: Tell about church this week. Anything unique happen? –
Answer: Well, church was good. I am
teaching the youth Sunday school class. They are a crazy group of kids, but I
love helping them. Nothing super unusual happened. Well, there was almost
nobody at church yesterday. There is this huge tournament going on for
basketball. It killed the work for the week, and it killed church attendance. I
am hoping that it will end soon, but I don't think it will.
Question 9: Tell about a tender
mercy this week.
Answer: We are teaching a
boy named And*rson. He doesn’t' go to school. He is 19 and stopped while in 3rd
grade. Not good. He has seizures if he thinks too much about things. We taught
him the entire restoration, and it caused him to have a seizure. Then we found
that he gets them. The dad still let us come back. He was not mad at all. So we
are still working with him. Just taking it really slow.
Question 10: Describe a time you felt the spirit this week.
Answer:
I felt the spirit when we were teaching And*rson. He is such a good kid, and is
so eager to learn. He wants to do the best he can, and you can tell by the way
that he talks and listens. Every time we are there, the spirit is there helping
him learn.
Question 11:
Describe a lesson this week that someone asked something unexpected.
Answer: Every Friday
night we do a sports night at the church and play basketball. One of the investigators of the sisters, was there.
We taught him for a while, but now he lives in their area. He was just taught
about the law of chastity. And this guy has a challenge with that commandment.
He came up to me and asked if it was okay for him to break that commandment
once a month. I just kind of smiled and tried to teach him more. We talked for
a little while. It was a bit funny.
Question 12: When you study the Book of
Mormon, are you studying in Yapese or English?
Answer: I study in both languages. I am almost done with the Book of
Mormon in English, then I am really going to focus on the Yapese again.
Question 13: Did you try some food that I would think
would be unusual? Answer: I had some squid this week. It was all right. It is not
very fishy. I was quite surprised.
Question 14:
What was in the last package you got? Answer: I got a lot of jerky and the
huge thing of tootsie rolls. The kids really loved those.
Letter to Everyone
Alright,
this was a really good week, accept for the fact that one of the elders in the
mission died in an accident. President asked to be 100% obedient, because the
rules keep us safe. He also asked us to move the work even faster, in the name
of the Elder. We are all said because of his death. As far as I know, this is
the first death of a missionary in this mission. You never know when your time
is up; you just always need to be ready.
Let’s
see... Elder Ramiterre and I had a baptism It was really great.
The
sisters had a baptism as well, and the Elders in the Thool area.
It was
great. That was 3 in one week. We need to get to more to reach our goal for the
month. As of right now, we have 8 baptisms this year… that is really good. I
think that we can reach our goal of 45 for the year. It is a big goal, but we
are doing pretty good. We need to work harder and faster to get the goal
though. My goal is to have 25 for the island before I go home. That is about
half of the goal, and I leave about half way through the year. But I don't want
to talk about that. We are doing pretty good.
The
three people that were baptized are named M*ckey (mine) N*chele (sisters) and
T*m (Thol). The baptismal service down here was pretty good. It was really nice
and the spirit was there. M*ckey is a really good kid. His dad was not going to
sign his baptismal record. We went to go talk to the dad, we explained what it
was and how it all worked. He said that he didn't want anything to make his son
upset because he is carrying a lot of burdens because of his mother’s death. I
talked to the dad about the atonement and how it works. The dad signed the
paper, and he was baptized. I talked to M*ckey on Friday about how the
atonement can really help him feel less burdened from is mother’s death. I told
him to pray and ask heavenly father to take the burden away when he was
baptized. After the baptism we talked with him. He said that he feels so so so
much better that the burden is so much lighter. It made me feel happy. I know
that he is going to to good. He has a strong testimony.
Could
you please send some little consecrated oil containers. There are a lot of
people that have the priesthood, and would like to give blessings, but nobody
has the container to hold the oil. That would be great. Also do you think that
you could send the best two years video? The young men would really like to
watch it. I told them about it, and they want to watch it.
I love
you all so so much
I am
trying to send pictures, but the internet will not attach them. Time is almost
up, but I will keep trying
Love you
all so so much
You are
the best
Love
Elder
Meyer
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