This week has been tough, with the lack of water and living in a different house and then having storms hit us, we're trying to survive haha. We're still roughing it in at the church. I'm sleeping on a mat in the church. Hopefully we get water this week, the whole living situation sucks here in Tuvalu, we want a new flat. This week was pretty dull, its getting close to cyclone season so we've had a lot of strong wind and lots of rain, which we're trying to work around.
On Saturday we had a great baptism of this 14 yr old kid named Akatasa. He's the man, and for a 14 year old kid he really had an awesome understanding of the Gospel.
We have another baptism this Saturday of a guy named Ukasi who is also the man and will be a great addition to the priesthood here in Tuvalu. We have a girl we are teaching named Emma. She's a great investigator but she wants to get baptized with her husband who is in Fiji. She came to church yesterday and after talking to her and finding out some of her problems we offered her a blessing which she accepted. My comp anointed her and i gave the blessing and afterwards she was wiping tears from her eyes. The priesthood and priesthood power are real. Teaching the gospel is fun and hard but its always worth it seeing the effects of your work and service. Being on a mission you see that no one is perfect and that every family has their problems. Its important for missionaries to be there to help and be that love that people need but its also important for members to show their love and not judge or gossip. Oh ya, as you know i love cats. And here in the islands people treat dogs and cats like crap. So this morning while we were doing our studies this kid picked up his kitten and was like using it as a toy airplane, and like swooping it down on these big dogs who were hitting it. So after watching this for like five minutes i got up and yelled at the kid to stop haha. My comp was like, man you really like cats haha. Anyways, Love ya guys and hope you're all doing well.
Love
Elder Cashen
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