Hello,
It seems like at home there are
a lot of my friends getting called on missions.
Good for them, they will love it!! When I get home I am definitely going
out with the Elders if they are still in Perry.
So you just had General
Conference? I will probably be able to
see it in a couple of months. Actually I
will probably be able to read it before that though. I will look forward to it.
I have been talking to a guy
about dad’s strawberry and raspberry plants he would like to try and grow them
if you can figure out how to get some plants to Tabiteuea.
So remember how I told you that
we (Elder Pratt and I) would probably be staying in Tab North with the next
transfer? Well, no one is coming. A bunch of new missionaries are coming to the
mission but the Mission President has decided to keep us going back and forth
from Tab South to Tab North every 2 weeks.
Not as much can get done as we would like, but we will continue working
hard to do as much as we can. I know that President Larkin is called of God so
whatever works. I love it here and am
glad I am going to stay.
You asked about home
teaching. Well, home teaching is
definitely a way important thing. When I
was in Tarawa Elder Grant, Berends and I tried to start up the home teaching
program in our ward. Now in Tab North they
already have it set up but only 1 companionship ever visits their people. It
should be getting better though.
Here is some more information about Tab North. It is definitely nicer than Tab South but not
much nicer. There are no cold food items
or anything like that. There are more
primary schools and there is like a High School type thing here. They do have stores here that have some
decent ish food. Nothing compared to
America, but they don’t run out of rice and canned food like Tab South
does. There are 2 Branches and 2 units
here in Tab North and there is only 1 unit total in Tab South. There are a bunch of members over all in Tab
North but there are lots of less active members but we are working on
that. We usually bike a distance here of
like 45 minutes to our far part, but if we had the time to work our full area
of Tab North it would take us 2 and a half hours probably to bike from one end other
the island to the other.
So we were able to fish last week.
Fishing is one of my favorite things to do out here. Here when we fish
we just throw out line with a hook and normally a hermit crab on the hook or a
cut up fish and we pull the line in by hand. It is way fun. I just caught a sea
snake type thing! It was an eel, I don't know if that is a sea snake, but I ate
part of one! It is still hot and dry
here. Last year on my mission it rained
a lot but for the past few months there hasn’t been much rain at all. We need more rain.
Remember I told you about Karakitewa?
At least I think I told you about him.
We were teaching him about God’s commandments and about the word of
wisdom. Well he quit smoking and quit
tea and started coming to church. We taught
him about repentance and prayer. He had
a hard time praying. We asked him if he
was able to do it and he said that he prayed in his heart and repented of his
sins. It was sweet! He still has a hard time praying out loud but
whatever works he knows the basics and can do it in his heart. Anyway Karakitewa was baptized this week and
it was awesome! His wife came to the
baptism which is sweet. Hopefully she
will start coming to church as well.
I have definitely developed a much bigger trust in the Lord through my
work out here. I know that true joy comes
from the gospel of Jesus Christ. I
remember an apostle said once that there is no reason on the earth to be sad
all the time. There are definitely
things that are hard and times when we are crazy sad, but they can all be made
better through the Atonement and gospel of Jesus Christ.
Well, things are going really good here. I will be heading down to Tab
South tomorrow. Keep doing great things
and I will email again in a couple of weeks.
Thanks for all you do for me.
Love,
Elder Dinsdale
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