Teaching Efforts

4.19.2015

Hey dad!

This week was super good. We went all out in our teaching efforts. The reason we were so focused on teaching this week is because all the typhoon recovery efforts are kind of at a pause, the government hasn't provided any real help yet (a little) and so no one really has supplies to rebuild houses or cookhouses or get chainsaws to cut the big trees to clean their yards. So even if we offer our time for service, no one is really working and we don't want to do their work

for them, we want to do it with them. We did have 2 baptisms on Saturday for Santir and Ripo, it was a super good experience. AD, the kid we taught in Mwan was also baptized so we had a combined baptism that we did in the ocean because the water pump to the church is broken.

We had transfers yesterday as well, but pretty much everything stayed the same so that was nice. We are down to like 66 elders in the mission, really low. So hopefully we get a lot more over the summer, Chuuk needs it. Elder Robinson has been doing a lot better with the language, especially pronunciation. It has been fun helping him, and seeing the success he is having. The goal is to get him to the point where he could be senior companion if called upon, which he is pretty much there. He is very obedient, and is definitely helping me to stay

focused on the work.

I know it is my last transfer, but like you said I have learned so much and now is the time to use it to be the most effective. And I really want to be an example to all the other missionaries of how a missionary should be their whole mission so I will be trying really hard. We have quite a few possibilities for baptisms this May, so I know it will be a month of miracles.

thanks for all the updates with the NBA and missionaries and stuff, let me know when some of the other guys are getting home so I know! 

I love you dad!

Elder Schroath

Ha mom, you are crazy! I don't need shoes haha but maybe the new guy from Papua New Guinea will fit in those shoes...haha but thanks for taking care of me :)  

I love you mom!

Elder Schroath