Life On A Rock-The Marshall Islands

What up Fam and Friends!

How I miss you all so much! but its okay, only less than 10months and ill be back in America for a month and then back here in the islands because I love it so much! haha jk mom I will stay for a while.

So this week was good as always. I would like to thank my Father and Mother for teaching me good work ethic because missionaries are dead by the end of the week! But I'm still running, ain't no body got time for resting. Like my President said, "I don't care if on your last day we have to roll you out to the plane on a stretcher with an oxygen mask on, at least you'll know you worked your hardest and gave it everything you got" haha gotta love it!

So we had a good success at the airport again this week! it was funny because both times we were at the Airport President was either coming in or leaving so i felt like i was his AP sending him off and picking him up, but really I wasn't there for him. There was a ton of Kiribati people and I feel like now I know every Kiribati person on the island. Its cool because whenever Kiriabti people see us they talk to us in Kiribati because they know that we aren't just Marshallese elders but also Kiribati elders.

My work just got a little harder due to the sisters taking our car from us, dang sisters hhaaha. learn to ride a bike! now we have to taxi to get to the far places in Majuro, lets just say it eats a big part of our time.

This week we had 6 investigators at Church this week!! all of which stayed for class!!!! that is a miracle right there!!!!!! not even members stay for class hahaha. These people are going to be solid converts! they just need to accept a baptism date! But one will get baptized this Saturday! but she is a 10 year old girl hahah, but her mom is less active and dad is not a member so lets just say, 'bout to get that whole fam being members and active again!

Kiribati branch this week was a even greater success!! 15 people!!! I sent a pic! One lady came from Kiribati to just visit and she shared her conversion story/life story in church and dang it was powerful! she was a blessing to the members here. We again did hymn practice after sacrament meeting for our class time.

So right now Im teaching a guy from Kili island, which, if you guys didn't know, is where they relocated the Bikini people before they did atomic bomb testing on their island. Its sooo cool to learn the history of all the testing and Bikini people. He gave me a book called "For the Good of Mankind" you guys should read it, its soooo good. The history of the Marshall Islands is sooooo cool. But lets just say America really screwed over the Bikini people. They never talk about it much in American history because America knows they messed up on that one. America still hasn't cleaned up Bikini island. so no one can live on it right now. Look into the history its sooo cool. There is only 8 people left that were originally on Bikini and were there when the Americans moved them off of Bikini.

love the work! Love you all!

much love,

Elder Tingey