Hello!
Well, I am
in Fiji chilling. I leave to Christmas
tomorrow night at 11:45pm. I am not sure
what time that is in Utah but it is very different. Elder Darm and I will spend an entire day in
Fiji tomorrow and we have no idea what we will do. We are pretty much sure it is against the law
to preach in Fiji unless you have a permit, which we only do for Kiribati so we
will just study. Good stuff!
Funny story,
while in Tarawa Elder Darm and I were on splits in which the first house we
went to the grandma offered Elder Darm and I her granddaughters to marry,
haha we declined.
The people
here are way cool though. When I first
looked at the people here they looked a
little scary, but I just waved and smiled and they always seem to be happy to
say hello! So, it is really good. While in Tarawa I taught with the Zone Leaders,
but once I get to Christmas then I will finally be able to be with my trainer
Elder Whitehead and meet the people I will be serving for the next 3-6 months
or however long they decide to keep me there.
People say it is hotter in Christmas than Tarawa though, and I thought
Tarawa was very hot and I got to travel around in the Zone Leaders air
conditioned car. I will be biking in
Christmas with hot weather...So, it will be fun! The flights have all been good though, and
the airbus thing or whatever was nice. We have been flying at night so everyone
has been sleeping but I was in between two people so it was hard to fall
asleep. It works though.
I can’t wait
to send home pictures so you can see how people live. It is crazy.
The nicer houses are probably the worst houses you would see where we
come from. Of course Tarawa I guess is a
dirty place compared to Christmas.
Christmas is probably the nicer of most of the islands, but the people who
have been there say that most people still live the same as in Tarawa, so
pretty much either cinder block walls with metal roofs, or cement floors on
occasion with leaf roofs. They are
actually cool over all. We all sit cross
legged wherever we go. We sit on these
little mats called kei. They are pretty
comfortable, and I have found sitting cross legged is easy for me. All good fun.
So as far as
food they pretty much eat fish and rice, but we also got some chicken as well
because Tarawa has a little nicer food variety compared to other islands. I hear that on Christmas though they have a
store that gets some stuff from Hawaii so I may be able to have American food
on occasion! And they say there are tons
of crabs there, so I guess I will try crab and see how it is!
So, I hear
that the people here like to party as well.
Their parties are quite different though. They say you just go and sit for hours at a
time. I talked to an Elder serving on
Tarawa and he said on outer islands you will go to these parties and sometimes you
will just sit there and do nothing for up to 10 hours at a time, but it is
disrespectful if you leave. So I will
have to let you know how that goes. I
love partying and all, but they party slightly different than what I am used
to. It will be good though.
Well, it
seems like everything at home is going good and I am glad. I will email you next week when I am finally
serving in my area.
Love you
all.
Elder
Dinsdale
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