Hey!
Another week to report. It was a good week, especially with New Years. New Years is huge in Chuuk, like the most celebrated holiday probably. Pretty much what happens is everyone starts getting empty jugs or water barrels or pots and pans ready to use for midnight and start practicing with their 'bands'. Then at 12 midnight on the 1st everyone goes crazy doing chants and driving up and down the roads dancing on top of cars and sometimes even a few cars will just block the road and everyone gets out and just has a crazy dance party for 10 minutes then jump back in and continue down the road. All this coupled by random fireworks going off from a bunch of different places. It was really fun to watch, we couldn't really sleep that well. Haha. Oh, we also killed a pig for it, so that was fun. Then 12 midnight on the 2nd everything stops and that morning it is just dead silent because everyone is sleeping. haha. Oh I love new Years.
We were supposed to go to Guam for mission leader council on the 2nd, but there was a big delay and while we were waiting inside the gate, the announcer said that the plane was no longer going to stop in Chuuk but go straight from Pohnpei to Guam, not sure why, but yeah we ended up not making it. Which is okay.
We were able to go to the Priesthood leadership meeting on Saturday and talk to the Branch Presidents, really trying to get branch council meetings going and happening every other week hopefully. Church was also good, we had a good show of about 100, it has been rough trying to get our investigators to church though.
Then we just skyped into the meeting in Guam, which was hard because half the time we couldn't hear and it was pretty blurry, but we got the jist of it. Hopefully we can make a good zone meeting out of it tonight. I am super excited for the new year!! We are setting goals so I'll let you know about them next week! In 2014 we had 1214 people come into the Church-adding together baptisms and reactivations which exceeds our goal we had of 1,000. So we were very blessed. I will write you guys next week! Love you all!!
Elder Schroath
ps yes I did get the box of candy, on the 31st. so good timing!
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