Kasalelie Kumaillll! Helllllllo everyone! Another BOMB week on the island of Pohnpei. Okayyyy so before coming to Pohnpei one of my biggest fears was having a member put a fish on my plate with the eyeballs looking right at me! OKAY SO IT HAPPENED. Oh my goodness. The member put it in front of us and I just started praying hahaha I about died! However, wasn't that bad!!!! I just didn't look at the eyeballs HA! But other than that, this week was so so great! The missionary work here really is moving along! We are so so busy allllll day. Like we never ever go finding because we simply don't have time which is such a blessing! The biggest struggle in regards to the work is how LAZY some of these people are. When I got here I wondered "why isn't everyone skinny here? All they eat is rice and fish?" and then I quickly realized that they literally don't do ANYTHING all day. Like nothing at all. But other than that. The work is so so great!
So on Thursday after district meeting our district leader decided it would be a good idea to dedicate our district! So we went to the top of this mountain and had a testimony meeting and prayer. We were overlooking the areas we are serving in and as we sat there and thought about those people we were teaching and would teach the spirit was SO strong. I feel so so blessed to be a missionary here in Pohnpei! I know that my mission president was very inspired when he sent me here and though the language and culture may be difficult, I know it's exactly where I am needed!
Okayyyy so I learned how to do the coolest thing this week! I learned how to tie hula skirts!!! Lemme tell you guys. That is not an easy thing!! Hours and hours of work goes into making hula skirts and they are so dang cool when they are finished! So I think I'm gonna tie hula skirts for a living instead of being a teacher when I get home hahahah!
So this week I promised one of our investigators, Welsit, that if he would stop chewing beetlenut (a Micronesian thing kinda like tobacco) that I would come back and visit him after my mission sooooo hahahah surprise mom and dad! I guess we are coming back because he's gone a whole week without chewing and that's a LONG time for this guy! Oh and p.s. I have this picture book of pictures of family and friends and the members and investigators are always asking to see it and lemme tell you guys, they think Americans are BEAUTIFUL! hahahah it cracks me up! The YW think Cade is the hottest thing to ever HAHAH oh gosh.
So before leaving on my mission my parents had both given me letters to open on certain times. Like on the airplane, after a hard day, etc. etc. And this week I decided just to read a letter my dad had given me to read while on the airplane to New Zealand. In this letter he gave me advice and shared his love and support. There was one part that struck me this week! He wrote and explained that I could be assured that he would be praying to ask our Father in Heaven if it would be possible for my dad to feel and experience some of the heartache and trials for me so that I wouldn't have to experience those difficulties. Now if my earthly Father can express that kind of love for me just imagine how much our Father in Heaven and our Savior loves us!! Their love is so much greater than our minds can even comprehend! How sweet is that.
I Kapingki I Peneinei!!
I ese me Sises Krais iaias!!!!
I poakepoake kumail!!!
XOXO / Sister Russell
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