Hi!!! I write you
letters on p-day, and I never know when I can send them, but I can write you
letters and tell you what’s up with me for the last week! The Marshalls are amazing! A very humbling experience living with people
who don’t know what they will eat tonight, but yet they are so happy… My perspective on a lot of stuff changed
really fast. You don’t need much to be
happy! Just family, God, and
friends. Everything else is just
temporary happiness. I miss you guys,
but I’ll be back some day.
In the meantime, I’m here helping these people realize the
importance of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It makes me feel so good seeing these
people’s lives literally change in front of my eyes. I love it.
I barely understand a thing these people say but they understand me just
fine. I know I will get better, but the
simplest testimony can be the more powerful one. And that’s what I have going for me right
now. Haha it works. I try to be social and talk as much as I can,
but it’s really hard, especially when you aren’t talking about the Gospel. But I will get it soon. The other day we tried to only speak in
Marshallese the whole day. Let’s just
say it was a quiet day! Haha, just
kidding. I know I learned more in that
day alone than any other! So hopefully
we can keep it up!
I’m not all sure how long I will be in Arrak; probably at
least March, April, and some of May. And
as long as I’m in the west zone, it’s only letters and emails once a
month! And outer islands they barely ever
even send the mail, so I’ll probably just write letters and save/date them and
mail them when I can! Pretty crazy! I’ll tell you that! It’s Hot…. Very. Hot. And I’m nice and black…No sunburns! Not yet, because I am being obedient to you
and using sunscreen! For now! Some days it’s perfectly sunny then the
heaviest storms ever hit and we get drenched!
But then, 20 minutes later, we are dry!
Cool how that works!
I can solve my Rubik’s cube on average in about 90
seconds! The goals for this transfer is
60 seconds average! We will see! I’m keeping up with my journal writing. Page 63 as of today! I try to do a full page a day, but it’s
usually more or less. There is a lot to
say! I’m collecting shells… Hopefully I
can make a nativity scene out of them J
Maybe I can draw sheep and wise men and everything on them! Lolz, I doubt I could really find one out
here. [I asked him to send me an authentic Marshallese nativity crèche for Christmas - MOM] I found some amazing shells for
everyone though! So hopefully I can send
home a bunch of stuff! I’ll see what I
can do!
Food: we go into town
every 2 weeks and do grocery shopping.
It’s pretty awesome! Other than that,
we eat tons of rice and the members feed us every once in a while! American seafood is gross… Marshallese seafood is elukkuun Eno Ippa!
(very good!) I love their bbq
chicken! There are chickens and dogs and
rats everywhere! I held a cat that was probably
3 weeks old for an hour during a lesson.
That was some good therapy right there!
Totally adorable!
For p-day, our whole district is going to Laura Beach! Nobody is going to be there so it will be 8
of us for a really nice game of beach v-ball. Lots of exploring! I’m going to take a ton of pictures and
hopefully get them sent home! Once a
month when I get to email, I 'll transfer the pictures over to my flash drive and
once my card is filled up, I’ll send it home!
Shouldn’t take me too long to do!
I’m in a stalemate writing all my friends right now because I wrote all
of them just before I left for Marshalls.
So I’m waiting for them to send stuff here, which takes a while! But it’s all good. I have got 3 letters so far! 2 from two girls at BYU and one from Elder
Mendivil’s mom! But by the time you get
this I’ll be rolling in all my letters J haha.
Some group sends Elder Watkins like 6 huge packages of
candy! So we are feasting! If you find it in your heart to send a
package you should send some Sprees!!!!
They are easily my favorite candy!
I’m glad they have some American food out here! I would die if they didn’t! I’ll probably write another letter this week
and send both in the same envelope. We
will see! Love you!
Love, ELDER INGALLS…3.0
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