December 16. 2016

What up fam! and Friends! Merry Christmas!

so this week was something else. first off one of my good mission buddies, Elder Ross, left to an outer island this week. Then my comp finally came back from Majuro, yes im still comps with Elder Ski, we get a long super well hes a stud and i really love working with him. Also the sisters here got white washed so we got one of the brand new sisters and a brand new Elder, so Ebeye continues to get new missionaries. 

Me and my comp are white washing Ebeye South, aka the worst area on Ebeye haha. The protestant church is huge down here and everyone is mean to the missionaries, the rep for us is super low. So im going from an area across  the street that has a ton of investigators and im teaching over 40 lessons a week, to a place that im teaching like 14 lessons a week. my last area i got 14 lessons in a day! its very humbling. But we do have an investigator that is best friends with a youth that we are teaching and she will get baptized soon. 

One goal that me and my comp have is to make the rep for us missionaries get a lot better here in the South. So we first are trying to get a good relationship with the members, so we are visiting all the members and also practicing BEAT everynight with them (which is sooooooo fun i love it!) and we are trying to gain trust with them so they will give us referalls. 

Next we are trying to get the people to like us by talking to everyone, introducing ourselves so they know our names, and making jokes with them. The best though is when we play basketball with them. So down south they have a big out door court that guys ages 16-30 are playing on everynight. like every goes there and plays and so i was like, lets go ball some marshallese people up. So we go and they like wouldnt let me play and i was like no like im good and i whipped out my bball pics and they were all like "Wow" alright let him play so they gave me the ball and said warm up and at this point everyone is watching me and here its always windy so its hard to make a outside shot but i decided to shoot outside shots and i drained them both and everyone autimatically thought i like played in the NBA so then we started the game and of course i played Marshallese style aka barefoot on an outdoor concrete court that is falling apart but i freakin balled ahhaha. My teammates werent expecting a lot of the passes i gave them cuz marshallese people dont really pass, they just drive and throw up crap. But we won both games and then i had to go, otherwise i would have continued to win, cuz thats all i do, WIN, ( as you can see im still very humble). But after the game everyone was like "Elder TIngey come back and play every night" i was like ok ok sounds good. so now everyone knows who i am and everyone asks me if im gonna play that night. the word is spreading, i love it. haha 

anyway, missionary work at its  finest, balling up kids. 

love you all, i dont know yet when i will get to call home but ill tell you guys.

Merry Christmas to all!!

Elder Tingey

1. my bday party at the Bellus

2. me and Elder Ross (going to an outy)

3. classic weekly ocean pic