Talofa!
This week was great. Like three of our really good investigators are Deacon/Teacher aged kids (12-15) and we thought they were members because they came to church all the time but they weren't so we're teaching them right now and they're awesome.
We buy our own food for breakfast and lunch but members feed us every night so we have these massive dinners and then just come home plan shower and sleep, thats why i think i've gained like 15 pounds im like 76 77 kgs. We've been back in our house for a month, the place is a freakin crap hole, i hate it, its so dirty. Our fridge stopped working so we got someone to pick it up and fix it so we don't have any food right now. Some days it rains super super hard and days like today its hotter than Africa. Two cool stories. So there is this school on an outer island that most of the kids on Funafuti go to and they come back for breaks and stuff and when they come back we teach some of the kids who are recent converts. So we taught this girl named Nepai (a recent convert) and after the lesson we found out that her brother in law who is like 40 something is a member and he is married to Nepai's sister who is like 30 something and has three kids. The sister and one of the kids were sick and we gave them both a blessing and they both got better and when we would see them in the streets they would always say hi to us so we thought we would go and see if they wanted to take the lessons. We went to the house and they told us they were really wanted to but the grandma and other houses in the village wouldn't allow it and didn't like us coming by. Well yesterday they all came to church out of the blue! It was awesome.
Second story. So we got home last night and i was hungry so I started making noodles on our counter top stove, and there is space between the stove and table, so when i turned the stove on a rat ran out from under it, i bent down to look under and two more ran out! I yelled for my comp and got my flashlight and looked again (we both had our tennis raquets ready) and there were two more under the stove! SO i got a knife and started poking one side and my comp was gonna get them when they ran out but he missed them. There was all this trash under the stove that i pulled out and there was all this rat poop everywhere. SO today we bought rat poison and rat traps. We're going to evict the family living with us. Yes, i'm funny.
The language is going well, i can teach the lessons great and answer questions but i get real lost in conversational stuff. I'll pick it up faster when i come back with my new comp. We go back to Fiji Nov 12 and i may be there for 3 weeks which would suck and screw with the work and the language. Miss you guys! thanks for the update!
Alofa atu!
Elder Hank Cashen
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