*Send old church magazines! (If you
can) The people out here LOVE church
magazines, but don’t/can’t get them. L* I gave you guys a ton of good ideas for my
NEXT package. J Love you!
Refer to Mom’s letter—that’s all.
Haha, just kidding! Yours and Mom’s letters are basically a part
1 and part 2 kind of letter. So I wrote
Mom’s first and yours I’m writing second!
So read both! I told Mom a lot of
stuff in hers! But I’ve got some cool
stories left for you! So the “beached
boat” that Mom or I mentioned before isn’t in my area, but it’s in Ajeltake
which is just the next area to the east!
So for zone/district meetings, we pass by it! And on low tide, there is NO water
around the boat and high tide there are probably 3 to 5 feet! It’s all a big mystery as to how it got
there! I hope to send pictures of it
home if I can get some sometime! Maybe
on a low tide day I can run out there and take a picture next to it! It’s awesome!
And once you see it, you’ll know what I’m talking about!
Life’s pretty funny, all the little
kids here are absolutely obsessed with my retainer! They all want to put it in their mouths! Learned that the hard way! Sooooo….
Do you remember that 6’ x 6’ tent we got for that bike trip?! (to
Duluth) And how small it was? Yeah…We taught a lesson in a house
that was about that size. Probably
smaller to be honest. It was raining, so
we had to go inside of it… There were
four people crammed into it! Ahhh, that
was cozy. Most houses in my area are about
the size of my bedroom at home. Nobody
has furniture; they all sit on the ground.
Or, they have a Marshallese chair (coconut) haha and they eat with their
fingers… Everything with their
fingers. They have what I’d say are the
closest thing to faming hot Cheetos as it gets, that they sprinkle with fruit
punch Kool-Aid packets and shake up and eat…
Yes it’s different, but I’m semi-in-love with it!! It tricks the mouth into thinking it’s sweet
but there’s no sugar, and its spicy.
It’s good! Hehe, maybe my taste
buds are dead…. Nope… I still hate lettuce and peas! They don’t really have that out here though,
so thank goodness!
I started reading the Book of Mormon
on 3-3-13 and I’m already 280 pages into it!
Hopefully, by the time you get this, I will be finishing it up! Or done!
Who knows! I’m excited to finish
it! I read it once through in college
because I had to. Now I’m reading it
because I want to and it’s amazing! I
actually care about learning about what’s going on and relating it to my
investigators! It’s awesome! I want to try and read it every transfer on
my mission. I know that’s all but it
would only help me! I might take a break
and read the New Testament, too, though.
It’s hard, because we aren’t here to teach about the Bible. Yes, it’s good, but it’s not enough. The Book of Mormon and the Bible complement
each other. It’s like bowling five
frames… You just don’t do that!!! Especially if you are really good at bowling!
So…funny story. The humidity out here sealed all of my
envelopes shut… So, if you get some that
look opened and taped back shut, that’s why!
I thought someone came and licked all of my envelopes shut!
So today we asked this lady if we
could help her with anything (all Marshallese people say no) and this old lady
said yes and we were really pumped and we said, “What can we do?” and she said
she wants two new rooms built on to her house!
So in the next couple of days we’re gonna build two new rooms on to her
house! Basically, her house is the size
of our two-car garage, and we are going to extend it to be three cars! So the small side! I’m excited!!! We have no idea what we’re doing either! But she’s getting some lumber, tin, and nails
for us to get to work! Ahhh, I’m so
excited! She said she has some crafts
for us when we finish! Sounds like a
good trade off to me!
I don’t think I have mentioned to
you and Mom about my freezing cold showers yet, huh! Yep, no warm showers for two years… There is just one temperature. Freezing.
It’s refreshing after you get used to it!
Today, some lessons fell through so
we jumbo-ed (walk around, explore, wander) and we took some really awesome
pictures! I’m excited for you to see
them! As much as I love Sweden and
Czech, the pictures there, they just aren’t as good as these ones from
Paradise! I should be sending home my
card too! Soon. I just need to transfer them over to my flash
drive! Which I could probably do soon!
Everything is going well here! Hopefully you and Mom can hook me up with
those things I mentioned! Or just a few,
ambebe (your choice). But they would all
help me a lot! I hope you enjoyed my
stories and such! I’m being a good boy
out here—I wear my retainer every day!
The Church is true! I hope you
are loving life as much as I am right now!
There is just so much to be happy about!
Say hi to everyone for me! Share
my stories! Tell me stories! Send pictures of Thundershock! What’s that white stuff that falls from the
sky? Oh, yeah, snow---yuck. Is there any left? Is it sad that I think 75 degrees is freezing??? Yes, I’m lame. It’s only going to get worse. Try not to tell Art… Hah, I love you Dad! You keep it real in MN. If I can help with anything, let me know!
Love, Elder Ingalls (3.0J)
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