WORK!!

What up Fam and Friends! 

I send my love to u all from the islands of Kiribati. So this week was a solid week, like it feels good to finally get a solid week of work in after some very slow weeks. 

Tuesday: Service: helped people crack open coconuts with a hatchet (thats how people.get money here) we hit it open dry out the insides then take out the inside coconut meat and sell it to the gov who sells it to companies. 

Wednesday: our village singing and dancing tryout at the gov village. It was sooo fun and such an honor to participate. As a foreigner im technically not supposed to be a part of it but because my village really wanted us to be apart of it, the main people let us. So awesome and fun! The guy cultural dancing is sooo cool! The tryout was for the big party (the 50th anniversary of the gov. Here on Maiana) but the party got changed to this coming saturday because the president of Kiribati couldnt come this saturday, so be is coming this coming saturday. Its a huuuuge celebration! And our village got selected to perform in it!

Thursday: work

Friday May 26th: a year ago i graduated high school. And received my mission call. Time flies. I miss high school. 

Saturday: my comp was.having a hard time so we didnt get much done until the evening. 

Sunday: church! We had 55 people total! Like 6 investigators, 4 of which have baptismal dates. We did 5 churches. Our last session was what i like to call our Army of children haha. There are like 8 kids who come to church every week (none of their parents are members) of the kids only 5 are members and the other 3 are the friends of the members. We are now studying with them. The kids are like the smartest in the village and are sooo awesome. They love to learn the gospel. These kids are all in elementary school, no joke, they have so much faith. 

I want you all to pray for one invesgigator, his name is Ngauea. He is 19 years old and litteraly told us that he wants to gst baptized and go on a mission. He comes to church every week and we now study with his whole family. The only problem is that he has a problem with a drug. Keep him in ur prayers please. 

Missions are super hard. Like really hard. Please dont judge anyone for coming home.early from their missions, its freaking hard. 

Future missionaries make sure u have a strong testimony cuz ur in for a long hard ride. 

I wish i had a stronger testimony earlier. The mission has really done a lot of reconstruction on me hahaha. I am sorry to everyone that i have done wrong to. Please forgive me, especially for my immaturity. 

I love this work, its freakin hard and the Lord loves humbling me everyday (especially with the language). Love you all. Keep enduring with Faith Hope and CHARITY!

Much love,

Elder Tingey

Ps. Last week my foot swelled up (like pregnant ladies feet haha) it was from a mosquito bight haha. Im happy to tell u mom that the swelling is almost done hahah. Im going to have a ton of scars from mosquito bites.