Sickness, buckets and translating

1.19.2015

Hey!

This week was great! I hope you guys get the letter from last week, it was a good one too.

And okay this week we had a baptism! It was awesome! His name is Pito. He is turning 19 in a couple weeks, and Chiro (prospective missionary) is really helping him out and leading him on the right path. I think he will endure, now we just need to work with him family because they

got a lot of less active members.

We have had a wave of sick missionaries, so this week was filled with a lot of hospital visits. It was not very fun at all. Oh, I forgot to mention with the baptism, the water pump was broken so we couldn't fill up the font normally so we spent an hour hauling buckets of water to the baptismal font. We would have just done it in the ocean, but the other baptismal candidate from Wichap gave birth a couple months ago and Chuukese culture, they can't go in the ocean or else sharks will attack them. So yeah.

The translation team is here (Tod Harris, the head supervisor from Salt Lake and some other Japanese guys) and they have been having meetings about the final revision of the full Book of Mormon, he said after the review, it will take at least 8 months to get it on the shelf:( dang. But I also talked to them about getting on the Chuukese translation team for after my mission, which I can do all from a computer and it is $36 dollars a page which is super good. And during general conference i could make bank! So I am excited for that little side job as well. I never would have thought Chuukese would be that useful after my mission:)

It rained again yesterday, so we had a small church attendance. But Pito was there so that was great. Tomorrow I am going to do an exchange on Uman with Elder Jonas, the district leader out there. I am definitely excited. Transfers are this Sunday, I think I will be staying here in Mwan though. We will know next week though!

I got the box mom! Thank you very much! the shirts were much needed. Yes the neao elders are moving into a new house, way nicer. I felt bad for them living in that terrible house haha so this new one is way better. I am excited for them to leave my house, no lie hahah but I love them, Elder Garae is still in Neao so it is nice to have him around cuz he is the best.

[a trio of missionaries had to move in with Elder Schroath and his companion because their roof was leaking badly]

I love you!

Elder Schroath