Mauri everyone! so this is the report for my week in rabi from 3-21 to 28
didnt get to email monday cause the internet was down so we moved things around a little to write home.
so last tuesday we went down to rabi to check up on the three people that we had schedualed for baptisms and to have some lessons with new members. on the trasnport ride down to the village uma(a truck with beanches in the back and a canopy cover) we saw one of our appointments walking the other way. so that was the first fall through and postponed baptism for that weekend because we had to meet with him to finish his lessons on time. so that was a bummer. then we went to one house to check on a lady and the other lady that is suppose to get baptised saturday that lives a few houses down walks by smoking! so within the first hour. but the third came through for us. and passed the test and is ready to be baptised but we dont have any clothes to do it here! so we had no baptisms this weekend. we had three really good lessons tho. we meet matagn daughter, 19 yr old just had a baby.. a HUGE baby lol kids a beast. and had a good lesson think she understood a lot of it. Matagn is the man tho. really workin hard on him and he knows its true he's just working on kickin smoking. so we are doing two addiction lessons with him and the lady and they are trying really hard. cutting back a lot. if we get matagn he will be a great strength to the branch out on rabi.
so after all our lessons we stopped by natans shop , the branch president, doesnt speak english. him or his wife. and she wanted to feed us... so we sat down to a quick meal. some rice, noodles with canned fish in it, and raw corned beef out of a can... i tried to eat fast cause it tasted like dog food. Blue def wouldnt have eaten it! so then i got food poisoning from the raw corn beef.
that night the district leader elders were comming over to do the baptismal interviews the next day. I wasnt feeling good that night and threw up before dinner and decided didnt want to eat and just drank water. all went to bed. after beating some fools at chess haha even when i was feeling like junk. and woke up at 11 and well... i sleep in a masquito net to keep the bugs off.. well i found out that those nets filter the chunks really well ... hahah
well had to clean it all up mostly just water and went back to sleep. next time i made it to the br just fine. and slept out the rest of the night. went the next day on just a cup of water for lunch. slept in a little and had some coka (you can guess what that is in english) and went about doing lessons. had a really good one with fule and tebuki that night and my comp went to uma and did the interviews with the other elder. so we taught the importance of prophets and their purpose and the truth of their calling. really made me realize how amazing it is to have a true witness of christ guiding us. It really was a good lesson. tebuki is a muslim since she married her husband and he died but that really touched her and made her start thinking. and talking about christ being the son of god in the flesh. With how much ive been serving and studying I can testify with more strength and power then ever before. I can see the lives of the people that we teach change . its another evident of the truthfulness. with so many religions here we have to teach that there is a one and only true church and that they can all find out the truth for themselves just by acting on the commitments we give them. my scripture this week is luke 12 really like it when doing my studies.
fri i was pretty much back to good. throughout the whole sickness i never felt bad. it was weird . It was just things going on . ussually my body hurts when sick but this time i just kept on going about my work and was strong and happy. didnt really hurt just more inconvinience.
thur night adventure...
so companion elder hillyard was laying in bed and i was sitting on mine. lights are off cause the generator is already turned off and no electricity. so i had a lighter in my hand and was talking to him with it lit when i heard a fly near my ear and i swat at it and said (what was that!) and the light went out cause i jumped and im like what the heck is that cause it wouldnt leave me alone. so my companoin just takes off cause all he knew is me freaking out and the lights go off like some scary movie haha
then i got stung in my left bicep and i was like ahhh it bit me! and he's runnning around looking for a light and im trying to kill these things i cant see that wont leave me alone so i picked up my sheets and tried swinging them around to kill them all and didnt work too well . i could see anything. well he gets a candle light and look at my arm and theres still a huge stinger sticking out of it (my misquito net was still outside drying from the night befores experience,,, it needed to be cleaned lol) and my arm was itching so bad and a little red the next day. we stayed up a couple hours and killed like 5 bees in the house. idk why they were there. only night we have had them in the house.
so that was me getting attacked at night
still got 9 lessons in this week even with being sick and all so we are trying for high goals this week to get more in.
goals are really important with achieving great things. learning a lot there. and with making small goals that get to the big ones that actually have purposes.
I miss alberstons! and stores and elecricity haaha but then again i have tropics and beaches.
papaya are getting ripe. tavioka is pretty good. not much dalo on rabi but thats good too. then they eat the leaves of both too.
My companion is really great. helps a lot and teaches me a lot. we are a good team when we teach and know how to work with eachother. im glad i got a good trainer. he might get transfered next week tho. he's been on rabi 6 months! hope he doesnt leave tho. either way it will be good. we have a lot of fun and get a lot of work done. our studies are good cause we teach eachother with our different insights of things.
my leg is doing good. its getting a lot stronger already. who knows maybe ill play football again someday. getting my workouts in and strecthing in the mornings.
found some really good ways to cook canned chicken potatos rice and chow noodles. drink a lot of drau ni moli and ovaltine stuff. drau ni moli is a ti you boil a citrus tree leaf in and its really good.
pictures of me and Matagn . love that guy and his argentina shirt. haha how random?!
had a lot of really good lessons this week.
mainly teaching. elanor, fule, tebuki, matagn, rajen, kabaroro and couple others those are our best i think
Im doing great . really best time of my life. hope all is well at home!
miss my family but its nice to see the blessings they are recieving from my sacrafice. my life is on a new path that leads to great great things and i know that i could not have any other way then serving a mission. I think everyone that is able and worthy man or woman should serve a mission. the entire world would change. and every single one of their lives would be on a whole knew track that always lead to the best.
love you all so much. think about you all the time and are in my prayers. keep the letters coming!
Elder Estill
