Making Progress!

We had a good week. We taught 41 lessons this week (personal record) and we had 23 total attendance at church. We're slowly making some good progress and its been exciting. We were exhausted. We taught our last lesson of the week at like 8pm on Sunday night and I have no idea how I was even speaking coherent sentences.  23 people! We had 9 investigators come, which is okay. we're hoping to get that number up. A lot of investigators didn't come for some reason. Its okay though, they'll come eventually. 

Our companionship is good. Farley is a funny guy. I did get dads pictures, and I am very jealous. Its fun to see Ian's face, i hope hes doing well as an RM. (Ian is like a son to us and a brother to Dallin.  He gave his homecoming talk this week in church and we had an open house for him.) When is he going to be
heading back to BYUI? We'll have to have him come down from Idaho all the time to hang out in Provo.
Good story. One day we were biking and a kid threw a stick at Farley. It got stuck in his tire and he almost fell over. It was actually kind of scary. It was in the village Rungataa. We have no investigators there. Its a huuuuuuge village and they have no desire to even have us bike through to the other villages. Every house we drive by gives us a bad feeling. We get yelled at and made fun of a lot on that 7 minutes biking through there. The stick was an extreme though. Hopefully it doesn't get worse!

I'm so tired. We leave the house at 10/11 and don't come home until like 8. It's harder than just biking long distances too, because we're stopping and sitting and teaching a lot all day long. My knees are going to be so messed up when I get home. It hurts to sit cross-legged for  a lesson and then hop right on a bike and cruise to the next one. I've been on a bike my entire mission so far haha! 

We have a less active here, but he only wants us to visit him once a week. He is a nice guy, but he doesn't really want to come back. I would try tracting or something but we're so busy with our other lessons we haven't had the chance. Its hard balancing finding with teaching lessons, we're just so short on time every day. 

We had 2 church meetings, one in the north at the house where we live and one in the south in Nikumanu. Its been good. The plane didn't come this week, so our other box never showed up. it was supposed to have sunglasses, sacrament stuff, and tithing slips in it. Hopefully we get that before Sunday next week.

Its been busy, we're just trying to have things go as well as possible. Its so hard because culturally people have no idea what we're doing. They think we come to their house to talk and to eat food, so they want us there for like 1+ hours and they have a hard time when we go fast. We tried having times set every half hour and it crashed and burned, we were just late all day long and didn't get to our last couple people even. We have to even plan on things not being as fast as we want them to. Church attendance is our biggest goal i think. Its hard to come up with talks every single week, and do the sacrament and conduct and pick songs and give the Sunday school
lesson, and to do it all twice because we have two units. Sundays are crazy, its good though.

I think i might even take a nap haha! We get fed all the time, we kind of just count on having lunch at some random house throughout the day - maybe twice or three times. We have most vital things, we could use sacrament trays/cups, more scriptures, and sunglasses. I did get that picture package.(I sent him a bunch of 5x7 pictures of Christ to give to people.  Most homes are very simple and any decoration or picture is a big deal.) I'll try to hand those out, i'm not very good at giving people things.

We use the solar stuff a lot. I love my little fan. I cant decide if I want other solar things. I think I'm okay honestly. If i didn't have it i don't even know what I would do. The little fan has been a life saver. I'll be sure to leave it for someone who needs it.Sleeping is good. We use mosquito nets and just sleep. Our 3-sided house is not really a house, its a platform thing about 4 feet off the ground with 3 walls. The rain isn't an issue, unless maybe it were to blow wind directly in the un-walled side which hasn't happened yet so I won't worry about it. Plenty of animals. Lots of dogs, cats, pigs and a horrible amount of flies. Nikunau is known among the Kiribati islands as having the most flies. Its kind of gross honestly. They like ride on our backs while we bike, its ridiculous. 

I have to go! Thanks so much for everything, I love you all. Talk to you all next week!
love dal