Sunday, March 20, 2011

First Area/First Week in Mission Field

Bula Vinaka! So my first week in fiji!
Its going amazing! Im pretty much living the dream!
I just spent 10 weeks at the mtc learning the fijian language and where do I get sent?
Rabi! where they speak gilbertese.... lol pronounced (rambi)
its one of the smallest islands with missionaries on it! only one side of the beach is inhabited. we have about 55-65 members come to church every week and about 30 investigators. the work is moving. baptisms are hard cause people travel so much and dont go to church consistently enough. the life style is so different. get up go work in farm. eat. sleep. visit. eat. sleep. sleep. eat. drink grog. sleep. lol its very different. we just meet new people from referalls. we dont do much at church really. taught the young men young women. 3 ppl and only 2 could really understand us. the giblertese language is really hard and difficult. theres no real liturature to study for it but a very small dictionary thats really old.
Eat a lot of coconuts already just cause i wanted to. my comp loves me cause I can actually cook something other then noodles.
There is no electricity. they turn on a generator from 6pm-8pm ish. no laundy machine. no irons. tiny house. fighting mold and stuff all the time. The water is so nasty. its just brown. I washed my clothes and they got even more dirty! so we are coming up with new methods to help keep dirt out of it. We have good filters just on sink water. no water pressure. my comp has been here 6 months. and will either be xferd nextmonth and ill have a new comp out here still or he'll stay here even longer.
The house is about 100' from the beach. all of the houses are right there on the beach. cant hear it cause theres no waves because of the reef is 80' off the beach and the waves break out there. the weather is beautiful and great. kinda dry right now not much rain at all.
working on getting a good home teaching group set up in the branch. the 1st councelor is the man he's so awesome. xlates for us all the time. and gets us coconuts.. we cant climb the trees. we tried some redneck ways to get them but failed lol still waiting for a ripe papaya
I pretty much got the exact area I wanted. its really bush.
wierd that everyone has a tv here tho... and music. even tho theres no electricity but at night!
really some awesome families here! the people are awesome.
tsunami didnt hit us at all or anything so no worries. idk why
maybe thats why its so dry right now.
address here is just to send it to the mission office.
Elder Estill
Fiji suva mission
gpo box 215
suva fiji
Legs doin great. not bugging me at night or anything. sleeping here is so amazing. doesnt get light till 630am and gets dark at 6pm. dont use a blanket. just sleep with a masquito net. and they arent bad. I have yet to be bit once... so yea. pretty much the best place on earth haha
my companion is elder hillyard. he knows nichole gummersal! haha (for mom and dad) so funny and small world. crazy.
he's awesome. get a long perfectly and hoping we get put together for a long time.
Mission pres is awesome and his wife. love them
so far an amazing start to an amazing time of my life!
love
Elder Estill

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