To make matters the worst they can possibly be, the van was destroyed this week... the famous white van is dead beyond repair. Without mentioning names, there are some people who are terrible at driving stick shift and so they
literally destoryed the clutch! The entire transmission is gone, so the van can't even be resold like the church usually does. Bad news. Worse, pres drove around this terrible tiny rental car all week hahaha.
For the work, we had a baptism on Friday. Awesome investigator - she's twelve and is super solid. Her name is Tieen. She's the one who came to church before she ever even had lessons with us. Awesome. Other than that, we're essentially out of people. This last month has been crazy and we have been pulled in so many directions on the island that our area has been a little neglected. New Elders are coming this week, so hopefully they can stay put and get things going again.
We had lots of farewell parties with members this week. We had dinner at Nakala's house, the family from Tabwakea that I love. Then we have dinner with Bakaiaa's family on Tuesday right before we take off and tonight we have dinner with Bateriki. Pres has gone to some dinners with us. He loves to meet the people we have been working with.
Bateriki got the Melchizedek priesthood on Sunday after district conference, which was awesome. I was the one that he picked to give it to him. I was scared, but I spoke really clearly and I feel like I was able to say what the spirit wanted me to say. He cried and I felt good. I actually need my priesthood line of authority from you so I
can give it to him. Cool that he kind of gets "adopted" in to that line. Favorite recent convert of all time!
(There have been some difficult situations on the island. I try not to include anything negative on the blog, but this is Dallin's record of his mission and to be "real" it has been rough the last 6-8 weeks. No need to go into any detail. Let's just say that he was worried that inaccurate information was being sent to the mission President and perhaps other missionaries. He was so relieved to talk to President and laugh and see that President knew exactly what was going on and had never doubted him for one minute. Relief.)
I got to have an official interview with President. It was great to talk about things and laugh and look forward to my new area. President just said that he wanted us to know that there was never any point where he lost confidence in us as a companionship. That's the best thing to hear, just to know that Pres trusts us. Hes
the man.
We talked a lot about Nikunau too. (There have never been missionaries on this island of about 2,000 people. They will literally just show up, probably have to build a hut to live in, and try to get the local people to accept them.) Pres literally has no idea how it will end up, he thinks we could have heaps and heaps of work, or we could be like stoned and really have a hard time. If the work goes bad, he says we'll really evaluate whether we need to be there or not. My companion is elder Farley, who I have already worked with for a few weeks in Betio. He is the man, and it'll be fun to be back with him. Anyway, we'll be together for a while. if work goes well on Nikunau. We'll be together through August, and then Farley will leave. Then I'll leave in September. which will be a long time out there. It really looks like it will be six months. Not looking like we'll have email, but who knows we might find a place. I'll be leaving pretty soon after we get back in, so I don't have many more p-days of email until like September. so we'll all be preparing for that I think.
Busy week. Good week. I'm excited to leave, Fiji is always cool.
Hope your weeks were good,
Love Dal
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