Monday:
At 1:15 we got a text that I would be having an interview with Elder Gay from the 70 at 2. We were on the other side of the Island so we had to speed but we got there in time. We then had a "family home evening" with all the missionaries on the island, Elder and Sister Gay, and President and Sister Poston. It was SO GOOD. He changed my perspective on just about every part of missionary work.
Tuesday:
We had our zone conference at 7:30 am with the Gays and the Postons. It was even better than the family home evening! I really feel like a new person/missionary. One of my favorite things he talked about was making sure people really understand, going back to the basics, and not minimizing the small things that we do. This truly is Gods work, we are just the instruments to bring people to their Savior, Jesus Christ.
After Zone conference we dropped Sister Behling off at the airport to go to MLC on Guam which means we got Sister Felt. Shes the newest sister, she was on Yap for a transfer then came to Pohnpei 2 transfers after me. She is doing so good at using the words she does know to teach simply! But it is fun to help teach her the language and translate when needed.
Wednesday:
We did service with a partially less active family and they fed us a delicious lunch after wards. It was my first time having fried breadfruit and fried taro and iou(delicious)!
Then we were walking on Wednesday (cuz we walk every Wednesday) and we went to visit a potential investigator that lives behind the school. She ended up canceling but as we walked back past the school, a man ran down calling for us to stop. It ended up being President Simram from the Stake and he told us they were doing a practice spelling bee. We were so happy to help them by being the pronouncers for their English spelling bee! It was all so perfect, God has a plan and knows where we need to be. We got talk to so many more people this week because they'd heard from their kids that we had helped at the school and wanted to thank us. Hopefully we will be able to help this Friday with their real spelling bee! (The only hard part is we realized we've forgotten how to pronounce a lot of the big English words, I'm just grateful we aren't the ones that have to spell them!)
Thursday:
It was my 6 months and Sister Bowers' last district meeting so we had a big Pohnpeian style feast afterwards! We all sat on the floor and ate with our hands off the same plates. I'm not sure how I will ever be able to go back to a fork and knife!
Friday:
We went and did service with a part member family we are teaching. We weeded all around their house and they climbed the trees and got us coconuts and made us chicken and rice for lunch, so it was a blast:) We then went to the airport and waited for a very long time to pick up Sister Behling, but it turns out she had missed her flight and will now be on Guam until the 18th. So Sister Felt gets to stay with me in Uh!
Saturday:
It was pouring down rain but we were supposed to do service with a recent convert family, so we prayed that if we were supposed to do service then to let us know (pohnpeians don't let us work outside in the rain cuz they think it will make us sick). By the end of our personal studies it was all clear blue skys! We had fun weeding around her little hut in the jungle, but her weeds cut my hands a ton. I need to get better at using the machetes like the locals.
Then in the evening time Uh branch put on a kamadipw/kamoange ong sister bowers! So they all brought local food and fed us and played music and danced and performed for us and it was one of my most favorite things ever. They are so great at dancing! I wanna learn to hula!!
Sunday:
We had 51 people at Church! Sister bowers taught Sunday school, we volunteered Sister Felt to teach Youth, and I taught primary! We gave each of the kids their own book of Mormon and they decorated the inside cover with their names and pictures of Church and their families and even Jesus being baptized. They all loved having their very own book of Mormon, it made me so happy!
A lot of our week was filled with Sister Bowers saying her goodbyes which makes me realizes how precious my time is here! It is such a privilege to be here. I love this work.
Sister Milne
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