What up fam and friends!! thanks for all the birthday wishes and emails it made me so happy!! heck ya ill be 19 on monday! i use to think 19 was so old and now im here and im like nah im still a kid hahaha. Also a fat shout out to my dad for having the same BDAY as me! Happy Birthday Pops!! you old man! how old 70's? haha jk but the real question is do you have gray hair? love you.
This week was solid.
Baptized Miko on saturday, in the ocean, probably the coolest thing ever. shes the cutest little girl. Of course my first time baptizing i had to do it twice because her foot came up the first time hahah classic rookie mistake. its all good though, the 2nd times the charm. She bore her testimony after and it was so awesome.
Then we had thanksgiving dinner that night with a member family. They had a ton of food, a huge turkey and a huge ham. too much food haha.
That night one of my investigators got married and i got to attend and it was so awesome i was smiling so big! then he brought his family to church the next day without me inviting him. i was so excited!
Monday night we got to practice BEAT. BEAT is a Marshallese traditional dance that they do for holidays and special occasions. They create a new dance everytime and each religion does one. Its super fun! So everyone is practicing for Christmas.
Tuesday elder ski and i balled hard! We got 14 lessons on tuesday. 14!!!! thats crazy! hahaha the Lord blessed us. The next day we didnt get that many though hahaha, but me and Elder Ski im pretty sure are leading the mission or at least top 3 in lessons taught per week, and we have one of/ possibly the smallest area in the whole mission. We also got a new investigator after i did some service and helped a lady pull nails from a piece of wood. Service is key my friends!
Gotta love the island weather of it being super hot and humid and then suddenly it starts pourin rain for one hour and then goes back to being blazing hot! Gotta love it. Also Marshallese people dont want to study if its raining or if its really hot, so you gotta find the right time to catch them haha.
A little bit about Marshallese culture. When you go to someones house and they are cooking, they say hey come and eat (even if they only have a little bit of food they will give it all to you because you are a missionary) so you have to sit down and eat, even if you are not hungry, you have to eat every piece of food until your plate is cleared, if you dont, it is really disrespectful. THe people will always feed you and if you say " ah im good thank you" its very very rude. you know how in American culture people offer you stuff to be nice but you just so "ah im good thank you" (because the people really dont want to give it to you anyway) ya thats not how it works here.. if some one offers you something, you take it , otherwise its bad manners.
SO because of this, i have gotten fat, i thought this day would never come but its true my stomach is getting bigger and i dont really have any abbs anymore. but no worries ill change it.
Its difficult when the classic marshallese meal is Rice (lots of it) chicken, soda, kool aid, and ice cream. Literally i have had more soda on my mission than i have in my whole life. its not good haha.
Well love you guys!! transfers are today and my comp might go back out to his outer island but idk yet. i should be staying here in Ebeye. My language is getting a lot better, its crazy to think that i have been out in the field for 6 weeks now!
love life!
3 Nephi 9:14 is the scripture for today (i hope thats the right one)
Much love,
Elder Tingey
these pics are me and Miko and then me and my comp at one of the wealthiest members house and their "kids" (adopted kids) (no one really lives with their parents its weird)
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