This last week was fantastic! I guess nothing super special happened - we were just getting things started up again in our practically closed area. We've got five people to see now and we've made plans to find the other previous investigators to make sure the work keeps going. We did another huge sasamaki - cleaning (sasa is the Fijian broom so the word is literally just brooming or sweeping) - and we're getting the bugs eradicated. We're turning the bush flat into the bush mansion with the addition of two working fans (versus no working fans before), we're getting our gas replaced so we can do some good cooking finally (versus just boiled water and microwave cooking), we're scraping what's left of our money from support and emergency fund to hold us off on 1- food 2- bus transport to take us to civilization and 3- electricity for the flat, all to cover us for just one more week (or else five days till support comes Feb 1 and Zone Conference happens Feb 2 if we have a chance to do a little more shoppin' then)(I'm stingy and want to see how far we go before I pull out the emergency Ameri-card like Dad wants me to). We are expecting very soon a new DVD player so we can finally watch the videos that accompany Elder Shumway's training and have a better music experience, but for now we have a sick light-up USB-speaker that is absolutely amazing and suits my personality very well. It's pretty sick. I was trying to see if I have a pic yet but this computer is freaking out so I don't think I'll be adding pics till next week maybe. You guys aren't missing much
Six months are over, I have served 1/4 of a full-time two-year mission. I tell my companion - and myself - that once you've developed skills and strength to stop worrying about the time, it goes by fast without you really knowing. So yeah!
Man, I gotta tell you - Elder Shumway and I are:
- Whitewash (2 new elders in an area)
- Finish-training
- Hardly out of my training
- Out of an Emergency Transfer
- In a new zone
- In a previously closed area
and we are KILLING IT OUT HERE!!
We're having a fantastic time together - getting actual effective work done and improving all the way. If he and I can handle this situation like this out here, there's no excuses for everyone else. Though I know that's not what's important I just really like thinking that thought.
ME AND ELDER SHUMWAY CAN'T SHUT UP! We have a ton in common and we have a lot of the old sayings that not many people say (like the devil's beating his wife and I can't think of what the other ones were but they're there) and he likes a lot of the same stuff I like and we have a blast talking with each other. Maybe a little too much of a blast sometimes... but we're doing great.
ME AND ELDER SHUMWAY CAN'T SHUT UP! We have a ton in common and we have a lot of the old sayings that not many people say (like the devil's beating his wife and I can't think of what the other ones were but they're there) and he likes a lot of the same stuff I like and we have a blast talking with each other. Maybe a little too much of a blast sometimes... but we're doing great.
Yeah I'm glad to have had the negative experience with my previous companion because I did learn from it, though it was truly excruciating for me mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and by extension physically. And I am glad I have the lesson and that it's over.
Vocabulary lesson - isa is like "aww" in that it has a ton of uses but they're different from aww so lemme see how to describe it... it's actually more like "man" like when you hear that this person passed away and you're like "man" - "isa" - or when someone says they're going to do something super nice for you and you're like "man, thanks a ton" - "isa, vinaka va-levu" but there's tons more uses it's just a super-frequent mild interjection
I hope you have a great week.
Bye yall!
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