Hey Mom!
Sounds like things are pretty crazy at home as usual. I miss you guys a lot! Tell Shane I said Happy Birthday! Tell the family I said Happy Valentines Day as well! I didn't realize that was this past week. Not much news on the whole Branch thing yet. My understanding is that the Assistants to the President in our mission along with the first counselor in the mission presidency are coming to the island from March 1st-March 6th to see how the work is going and determine if the island is ready for a branch, which would have a ton of benefits for people here. They will probably ordain some of our Aaronic Priesthood holders to the Melchizekek Priesthood, scout out land for a nicer church building, stuff like that. I don't have much out of the ordinary to report on from this past week. My companion Elder Baker and I have mostly been trying to hasten the work by reactivating less actives and teaching new investigators. We started teaching a Catholic Unimwaane and his family. We also started teaching a shy but friendly and welcoming Bahai family. Teraerae's on started sitting in on our lessons with her, and we re-scheduled Teraerae's baptismal date for March 18th due to the time we need to get her divorced from her previous spouse and married to her current spouse. We re-scheduled Bwauro's baptismal date for March 4th. One evening while we were walking north from our house to teach a lesson a drunk guy stopped us on the road demanding that we bow down to him and admit we were lying to the people of his church. When we didn't bow he tried getting pretty physical with both Elder Baker and I, but just ended up embarrassing himself and damaging his reputation because a lot of people were watching. Even though the patriarch of our household banned him from coming back to our house he sent someone to apologize to us on his behalf when he was sober again, so that was nice I guess. Simple moral of the story though-keep the commandments and these kinds of things don't happen. In one of our services Elder Baker and I helped Tementio and her husband Taaboi clean out their well because they found a dead rat in it. We basically just formed an assembly line and scooped out buckets of water until all the water was gone. There were a bunch of crabs in the well which would have been fun to catch, cook and eat if they were just a little bit bigger. For another service everyone from the church came up to help burn away brush and plant banana tress right next to the maneaba where we have church each week. We all hung out during a small dinner afterwards. We've found out this week that pretty much everyone blew the last of their food reserves on the botaki I wrote about some last week. Luckily Biri and his fishing partner have been catching a decent amount of fish this week. They definitely don't have enough to make everyone happy, though. People now a lot of times just run out into the ocean as the boat is coming in, grab the fish they want, run back to pay for it and leave before anyone else can get angry that they took more than their fair share. Biri thinks its pretty funny. He said he made like $700 this week plus a bonus of his own free food, which is a nicer salary than KPC minister Pastor Teeto or KUC minister Pastor Tio probably made this week. Elder Baker and I have a bucket of stale crackers that we can still use for sacrament instead of bin or something like that. Not having much cargo has been ironically nice for us Elders, because everyone loves to feed us but have nothing besides fish and coconuts, whereas before they would want to feed us unhealthy stuff like rice or sugar water. I've had Ingimaa(yellow fin tuna) everyday this week and it has been awesome. At this point I enjoy eating octopus as well because my stomach has gotten pretty used to it. I guess that's about everything for this week. I love you so much Mom! I think about and pray for the family every day. I really appreciate all your love, care and support. Elder Morphonios
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About MeI'm Elder Joseph Morphonios, and I've chosen to serve a 2 year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Join me as I share my adventures about serving the good people of the Marshall Islands, and sharing the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ with them. Archives
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