So the song I can't get out of my head this week is "All Of Me" by John Schmidt. Mainly because Elder Sturm is quite awesome on piano if I haven't mentioned that before. For those of you from BYU, I think he may even top Abe. It's a close matchup but I didn't think anybody could top Abe. Their styles are completely different though. Elder Sturm plays off of expression. He just makes stuff up to how he feels, and he can play All of Me. So I really enjoy that.
Weis! Oasr news luhk! Sislah koluk, nga moulkuhnuh. (woah, I've got some news. Sorry, I forgot) I'm District Leader now. I now get to conduct baptisimal interviews....in Kosraean....and I can barely teach a few principles and have a very very basic conversation. I'm slightly nervous. But hey, I might get to go to Chuuk for about 4 days in January for leadership training. That would be cool. I could get to see Elder Butler again.
Ok so, Two baptisms this past week. One planned for this week coming up (hopefully two). We are now at 36 and hope to be at our goal when Elder Madsen goes to Guam on Friday for zone leaders council. We're so excited! We've found our groove this past week and have really been able to work well together. I keep really pushing the same aspects I learened from the Squirrels and it has really been helping out. Speaking of which... (Aaron Hiatt....How are things. Hows SVU? Mish papers? anything.. I love ya bro. Send me a quick one letting me know how things are going.)
Not much has changed here on Kosrae other than the other night we had bought two crabs from some boys and we had them in a big bag in the car. Pretty decent sized too. Well we were driving from an appointment and Elder Sturm was like "The bags tipped over". He looks inside and says " hey I'm not going to lie, there is only one crab in here." I get out my light and start recording the experience. Meanwhile all of us have our feet in the air searching the ground and were just coasting down the road. Elder Madsen was like "Check my feet so that I can go back to driving." He takes the light and then shouts "It's right there by my foot!" The crab was chilling under the break pedal inches from his foot, and he was wearing sandals. We coasted to a stop and tried to get it out. The video is hilarious and when we got out of the car we saw the 7 year old kid of the family we just taught walking down the road a couple miles away from his house, and its like 8:00 at night. We were wondering what he was doing so far away from home alone. But then again 2 year olds go walking around here where ever they please. So we grab a meitmeit (machete) from the truck and scoop it into the road. A mental guy ( who has the nickname "Fruitloops") put his finger on the shell and held it while we cut the arms off. We were also right near the protestant church and quite a crowd had gathered to see what the three of us white people (mwet fash fash) were freaking out about. Well, Elder Madsen freaking... and Elder Sturm and I just laughing really hard. A local would have just grabbed the crab from the start. I'm rather afraid of those things. They're pretty angry and firery buggers and can take your finger off. Anyway, Elder Madsen turns around and kinda sarcasticlly in a playing it all off kinda way and says "Kay wo, mwet nuh kewa" (good evening every one) holds up his hand and says "wona, wona" (basically everythings alright) and laughs then says "Kal, fong wo." ('k, night') then gets in the car and we all erupted into laughter as we drove away. Needless to say, that crab was boiled as soon as we got home.
This mission is awesome. The responsibility, the blessings, the toughness of it, the beauty, the people. This place is just quite the experience you never quite know what to expect, and the people are so humble they truly have very little, some nothing and yet they give. We were doing service the other day [hacking through a mass of trees and plants and bushes with meitmeits {so fun!}] and the lady we were doing it for made us fish, which they descale here and then boil in coconut milk and water. So you eat it off the bone, skin and all. It actually wasn't too bad but the eyeballs had a texture like stale marshmallows in lucky charms.) They are just perfect examples of what Heleman talks about, or is it Nephi? Tayuck. I truly love it here and I'm so glad I came. This work is amazing and I love seeing the lords hand in it. I truly hope that those of you wanting or wishing or nearing the time to prepare for a mission, Do it. Prepare now. You cannot even begin to imagine how much you will be blessed. To everyone: Nga luhngse komtacl. Kampare ac nga fah osun.
Elder Lapeyrouse
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