Last week all we did for PDay was play basketball with the other
elders and Elder Anderson (one of the senior missionaries). It was fun, but man
I am sick of basketball sometimes. It is all my companion or the other two
elders want to do. Sports sports sports. Which is fun, I love playing games
with people, but when I am obviously the worst, and it is all we do, I would
love to do some other things... sigh.
We were going to go to a family home evening Monday night, but
it was cancelled, so we just watched 17 Miracles
with one of our recent converts. Then on the way home, we were really hungry,
so we got Palace Burgers. Palace is one of the main takeaways shops here. (A
takeaway shop is basically a fast food shop. Burgers, fries, fish, etc. all
pretty fast. And equally as unhealthy and that kind of gross you eat anyway.)
But the Palace burger costs 15 dollars (which compared to their cheapest being
5 dollars, and their average price being 7-10 dollars for a burger, is less
outrageous than it should be) and is more than half a foot tall so it is pretty
big. And yes we ate it. It was pretty good.
On Tuesday we had a trade off. I went to the other elder’s
area, and Elder Taimani came to ours. Beginning this day, it started to rain. A
LOT. Because of this we have not been able to do much at all. Both because it
is hard to get around, and if we find someone at home, they don't really want
to talk to us, cause we are all wet and they are trying to relax. On trade off,
it was mostly us waiting at a hair salon for a spot to open for Elder Manarangi
to get a haircut. And when he did, someone there wanted a blessing, and her
hair was full of hair dye, so we had to wait for her hair to get washed out.
When we traded back, we biked back to our area in Avarua and then went to bike
out to our other area in Takitumu. It was raining and it got to the point where
it was raining so hard we had to find some shelter and we had lunch while we
waited for it to die down. It finally did, and we got to our area, but we had
that problem mentioned above. The next day started some roughness. I woke up
with a headache and my stomach hurt. The headache went away, but the stomach
problem was there all day. But we didn't do much. Just some more service
husking dodgy coconuts. Which was rough, and hot cause the rain was stopped
here, but man, it was hard work. Also, we found 3 hermit crabs! 1 pretty big
one and two small ones, but I only took pics of the big one and the first small
one.
After more unsuccessful biking around, we went back to Avarua,
and I threw up. Little TMI, but, had to be said. I felt a lot better
afterwards, but the pains came back that night. The next day I woke at 3 in the
morning with more TMI probs. Let’s just say that a certain Nacho quote about
Easters applied all of that day.
But anyway, we had weekly
planning, so we planned for the next week. Then we actually went into the
family history center right next to us and Elder Nonu was able to find out more
about some of his family from Mauke, one of the outer Islands. I just sort of
looked through mine again. It is really interesting to see all of your
ancestors. I did borrow a book there, though, called "Israel in the South
Pacific". It is REALLY interesting. It talks about how the Polynesians are
all descended from the people in the Americas and relating it to the Book of
Mormon and how all their pedigrees match up and man it is cool.
But I also had to help some older ladies use Facebook,
specifically adding pictures. They were amazed at my SD card reader, and were
wondering how you put the date you posted onto a status. She was wondering why
it said "just now" instead of the date. And she wanted me to explain
the process of copy & paste so she could write it down. Starting with left
click.
Then we had a few lessons, one was bit tough, cause he kept
being weird. He was baptized a few months ago and he recently turned 16, and his
12 year old friend came over and they were just talking about so many false
things. Phew. So, not the best lesson we have had with him. But he is still the
man.
On Saturday, I started to feel better. The second counselor in
our mission presidency flew out. His name is President Reid. (We actually had
David A. Bednar come to the mission, but since we were out here in the Cooks,
we never got to meet him. We didn't even get a recording of his teaching. So
that kind of stinks. Because apparently we even combined with the Hamilton
mission, the mission right below ours, but again, we missed it. But President
Reid is cool.) So we had a meeting with him and all the other missionaries on
the Island, including Elder and Sister Anderson. Then he bought us all lunch.
After we spent the rest of the day having district conference,
or where all the members in the Cook Islands district get together and have a
sort of mass church. We sort out district business and such.
The next morning, it was
my birthday! Yay, the first day of my last year of teenagerism, meaning 19. I
got a package from my family, and it was almost all super-hero themed. It was
awesome, they know me well. ;)
Then we had our last session of district conference Sunday morning.
After we came back to our Chapel, and it started raining hard out again. So we
waited with one of our YSA named Jared for it to stop. It never did, so we just
went out in it. Man we didn't even bike far, and we only had time to go to one
house, but we got so wet. My rain jacket was overwhelmed and didn't help much
after a while, but it wasn't its fault.
Then the other elders came over to spend the night and we played
out in the rain. (Mostly Basketball cause they love it, meh) Then we played cards
(YES, finally something not sports) and went to bed. I was going to make a
cake, because my family sent over some stuff to make one, but we don't have
vegetable oil or a pan to make it in, so I just had Ice Cream with Milo powder.
(It is kind of like Hot Chocolate, in that it is a chocolate drink, but it is
malted barley. It is a lot bigger here and in the South Pacifc than hot
chocolate, but I don't think it is as good. But it is mean on Ice Cream.)
Anyway, another week.
Stay cool y'all, I got this front.
-Elder Clayton-
P.S. this morning I have been asked to take pictures of 4 more
people (those older ladies) to put onto FB, so I am pretty much picture boy
now. If you want to see the pictures I have taken, along with a picture of me,
it is on the FB page "my family 15 in 15"
1&2: Me and my companion eating the famed "Palace
Burger"
3&4: Awesome Hermit Crabs
5: Superhero package
6: Expectation
7: Reality
8: But really though
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