12 Nov 2009
Fakkun Ran Allim!
I received the Halloween box, thank you so much! I even got a letter from Kelsey which was awesome!
Last week was insane! It started with interviews with President on Thursday for all the missionaries, plus a cooking demonstration with Sister Dowdle that evening, Wednesday we had an exchange with Elders on Toloas, Tuesday was P-day and Monday we took care of zone needs. All of Friday was eaten up by Zone Conference. Saturday and Sunday was District Conference so all the elders were in for that as well. It was a 4 day 3 night circus fest!
I like that mom knows when our transfers happen and is pumped about what will happen. Well, believe it or not, I’m still in Chuuk! Throw a party! Unfortunately Sorenson is not. He got the call to Guam, and will be the new Zone Leader in Guam replacing Elder Hill. My new companion will be Elder Kuss! Rich Kuss, was one of the preparing missionaries while I was on Romalum. Him and Josuae. So I already know him really well and it will be pretty sweet to work with him. From what President told me his English still isn’t too good so I’ll be a Chuukese master in a couple months (even more so than I already am :)
But I will be going to Guam next week for Zone Leader council. I’m pumped for that because I’ll get to see Sorenson again and eat COLDSTONE ice cream! Oh my goodness, last time we went, we walked into Coldstone and Sorenson and I were intoxicated it smelled so good. I’m pumped to take Rich Kuss to eat at Coldstone. ha
Elder Lange is coming back from Guam on Friday, so I’ll be seeing him more often. We are also getting another new missionary, 100% Mauri from New Zealand. Which is good because we need more islanders in this zone. Islanders are easy to get along with on big 4 day 3 night sleepovers and get along with the people really well.
When Sewel was baptized that was the end of all our progressing investigators, so Elder Kuss and I will have a bunch of time to go finding! I’ve been in Mwan for 6 months and there’s not much I don’t know so, as in Wichap we’ll be going over much of the area again, but it’ll be good because Kuss is Chuukese so they can’t turn him away. Kuss is going to be a stud!
Well I love your guys’ faces, so don’t go do anything drastic. Thanks for talking to Tim Powers, mom (you can tell him that I’m going to rock everyone’s socks off when I’m back there) keep me informed and updated but your plan sounds good for now. Dad thanks for the results and keep ‘em coming. Oh, mom maybe if you e-mail Tim again ask him about the other guys that were freshmen with me, if he knows anything about them and if they plan on swimming right when they get back. Just wondering. Love you lots, don’t die :)
Tong Ennet fit Jaiwak,
Elder Wells “Ito”
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Circus Fest
3 Nov 2009
Nepong Allim ai inepwineu! (family in old old Chuukese)
Man so today was a national holiday so the post office was closed. Meaning I couldn’t read your letter and reply to anything in it. All is good, no worries!
We got General Conference. They sent actual DVD’s to us! It was so cool! It was the first conference that I’ve watched or read all the talks of since I’ve been on my mission. That’s weird. ha. The places I was in at the times when General Conference happened didn’t have access to any stuff like that. Another blessing of serving in Muan.
Power has been terrible as of late. The power company got a new manager and he’s supposed to save CPUC (the company) a bunch of money, but he’s not all there because he just never turns power on now. We’ve been days without power and without power this house is more fit for a sauna. It’s a shoebox with no holes which equals constant sweating by my body. Anything I write down during studies gets smeared by sweat from my arms, hands, and face. But hey I love Chuuk to death and wouldn’t want in any differently. :)
We have a huge circus fest coming up this week. We have zone conference on Friday (which means Elders are IN for interviews on Thusday) and then Saturday and Sunday we have district conference. So what that amounts to is four days of putting up 12 elders in this shoebox. Plus doing every the Presidents needs to make sure everything happens smoothly. Some how feeding all the elders during those four days (which at the end of the transfer means no one has money except Elder Sorenson and I :)) Making sure all the elders still somewhat like each other by the time they all leave on Sunday, and just about 562 other things that we have to do. It’s all good, because Elder Sorenson and I are so good at running like chickens with our heads cut off you can hardly even tell that we don’t have a clue as to what we’re doing. I love it!
This weekend will be fun! Zone Conference is going to be kick-awesome amazing, and we’ve planned sweet zone exercise activities for the morning. We’re going to have a Chuuk Zone Family Home Evening. It’s going to be insanely awesome! The reason we have all sorts of sweet activities planned is that on these long sleep overs everyone’s patience starts running a little thin, and I don’t like that. So if we have sweet activities going on no one can lose their temper too bad. ha. I’m pumped!
Sewel got baptized! We got him yes we did! We baptized him before church. Wayne, our Branch President, performed the baptism and I performed the confirmation. It was amazing as all baptisms are and he bore his testimony during testimony meeting which was really neat.
Power just came on! Yeah! Celebrate, have a party. Hopefully it will stay on for more than an hour so that I can party during my sleep. ha
Love you all, lots. Ai tong mi ennetin Jaiwak fun itemi!
Tong Jaiwak fiti Ennet,
Elder Wells “Ito”
Nepong Allim ai inepwineu! (family in old old Chuukese)
Man so today was a national holiday so the post office was closed. Meaning I couldn’t read your letter and reply to anything in it. All is good, no worries!
We got General Conference. They sent actual DVD’s to us! It was so cool! It was the first conference that I’ve watched or read all the talks of since I’ve been on my mission. That’s weird. ha. The places I was in at the times when General Conference happened didn’t have access to any stuff like that. Another blessing of serving in Muan.
Power has been terrible as of late. The power company got a new manager and he’s supposed to save CPUC (the company) a bunch of money, but he’s not all there because he just never turns power on now. We’ve been days without power and without power this house is more fit for a sauna. It’s a shoebox with no holes which equals constant sweating by my body. Anything I write down during studies gets smeared by sweat from my arms, hands, and face. But hey I love Chuuk to death and wouldn’t want in any differently. :)
We have a huge circus fest coming up this week. We have zone conference on Friday (which means Elders are IN for interviews on Thusday) and then Saturday and Sunday we have district conference. So what that amounts to is four days of putting up 12 elders in this shoebox. Plus doing every the Presidents needs to make sure everything happens smoothly. Some how feeding all the elders during those four days (which at the end of the transfer means no one has money except Elder Sorenson and I :)) Making sure all the elders still somewhat like each other by the time they all leave on Sunday, and just about 562 other things that we have to do. It’s all good, because Elder Sorenson and I are so good at running like chickens with our heads cut off you can hardly even tell that we don’t have a clue as to what we’re doing. I love it!
This weekend will be fun! Zone Conference is going to be kick-awesome amazing, and we’ve planned sweet zone exercise activities for the morning. We’re going to have a Chuuk Zone Family Home Evening. It’s going to be insanely awesome! The reason we have all sorts of sweet activities planned is that on these long sleep overs everyone’s patience starts running a little thin, and I don’t like that. So if we have sweet activities going on no one can lose their temper too bad. ha. I’m pumped!
Sewel got baptized! We got him yes we did! We baptized him before church. Wayne, our Branch President, performed the baptism and I performed the confirmation. It was amazing as all baptisms are and he bore his testimony during testimony meeting which was really neat.
Power just came on! Yeah! Celebrate, have a party. Hopefully it will stay on for more than an hour so that I can party during my sleep. ha
Love you all, lots. Ai tong mi ennetin Jaiwak fun itemi!
Tong Jaiwak fiti Ennet,
Elder Wells “Ito”
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Keep Smiling
27 Oct 2009
Nepong Allilm Ami!
Those pics of Zach's interception are pretty sweet! Nice work bro! Keep representing for the Wells family. McKenzie I'm so pumped that you're starting high school swimming. You'll have so much fun, make sure to love every second of it! I was always on the Blue Team and Blue always won :) Sydnee you're nine! Holy smokes you're so big. I liked your carpet burn on your head picture. Very pretty.
I got the pictures of me mom thank you so much. My Chuukese moms will love them! Man, I sure look different. ha I've been eating so healthy lately and pumping the weights, so I'm looking good :) My motivation has been BYU Swimming. I don't know why but I got excited for their season. Thanks for the results of the Pacific Invitational meet dad. All-american Brandon Watson is nice to have back.
I loved the positive affirmation by Sydnee, that's pretty amazing of her. I can just see her smiling big all the time.
That is something I've done since day 1 of my mission is to smile. At first I just smiled always to hide that I was scared or not sure what I was doing. I wasn't about to let anyone see that so I just smiled and no one could tell :) As time went on I just kept smiling through rain and shine, rough and bad, stupid and dumb and coming out on the other side. I was sailing smooth instead of all beat up from what happened. I like it, so I kept smiling. It's now at a point that whenever something goes different than planned or something turns rotten I, out of habit, just smile and nothing seems terrible after that. I have so much to smile about that I can't stop; from sun up to sun down. I'm doing the best work in the world and that in itself is enough to keep anyone smiling. Not to mention that I have a studly good looking family at home (and that includes, of course, all extended members :)) who love me enough to keep writing to their son and brother who lives in Chuuk. Thank you!
Well Sewel is getting baptized this week and that's pretty monumental. After five months of working with him he's finally there!
Last week we had zone p-day and then I went on an exchange to the island of Uman for a couple of days so that is why I wasn't able to send a letter. In Uman Elder T and I caught a rat, because their house is crawling with them, we showed it who was boss and we'll just say that he won't be coming around anymore. Uman is a really great island, it's probably my third favorite after Romalum and Paata (and I haven't even worked there for more than a couple days. ha). Elder T and I also wrote a song in Chuukese for the ukelele.
I have a nickname that I need to tell you. It's "charame". "Charame" is like Chuukese sweet talk but it's really complex, more so than any sweet talk in English, anyway, I know a lot of it so the Chuukese gave me that as my nickname. No DON'T WORRY I'm not wooing all the Chuukese ladies out here but maybe it will help me in the long run when I return home. ha
A watte ai tong ngenikemi. Ewe tong a nom rei fan itemi ese kuch fonufan ika fan sat. Chechemeni pur ai tong esap much! Love your guys' guts!
Tong Jaiwak!
Elder Wells "Ito"
Nepong Allilm Ami!
Those pics of Zach's interception are pretty sweet! Nice work bro! Keep representing for the Wells family. McKenzie I'm so pumped that you're starting high school swimming. You'll have so much fun, make sure to love every second of it! I was always on the Blue Team and Blue always won :) Sydnee you're nine! Holy smokes you're so big. I liked your carpet burn on your head picture. Very pretty.
I got the pictures of me mom thank you so much. My Chuukese moms will love them! Man, I sure look different. ha I've been eating so healthy lately and pumping the weights, so I'm looking good :) My motivation has been BYU Swimming. I don't know why but I got excited for their season. Thanks for the results of the Pacific Invitational meet dad. All-american Brandon Watson is nice to have back.
I loved the positive affirmation by Sydnee, that's pretty amazing of her. I can just see her smiling big all the time.
That is something I've done since day 1 of my mission is to smile. At first I just smiled always to hide that I was scared or not sure what I was doing. I wasn't about to let anyone see that so I just smiled and no one could tell :) As time went on I just kept smiling through rain and shine, rough and bad, stupid and dumb and coming out on the other side. I was sailing smooth instead of all beat up from what happened. I like it, so I kept smiling. It's now at a point that whenever something goes different than planned or something turns rotten I, out of habit, just smile and nothing seems terrible after that. I have so much to smile about that I can't stop; from sun up to sun down. I'm doing the best work in the world and that in itself is enough to keep anyone smiling. Not to mention that I have a studly good looking family at home (and that includes, of course, all extended members :)) who love me enough to keep writing to their son and brother who lives in Chuuk. Thank you!
Well Sewel is getting baptized this week and that's pretty monumental. After five months of working with him he's finally there!
Last week we had zone p-day and then I went on an exchange to the island of Uman for a couple of days so that is why I wasn't able to send a letter. In Uman Elder T and I caught a rat, because their house is crawling with them, we showed it who was boss and we'll just say that he won't be coming around anymore. Uman is a really great island, it's probably my third favorite after Romalum and Paata (and I haven't even worked there for more than a couple days. ha). Elder T and I also wrote a song in Chuukese for the ukelele.
I have a nickname that I need to tell you. It's "charame". "Charame" is like Chuukese sweet talk but it's really complex, more so than any sweet talk in English, anyway, I know a lot of it so the Chuukese gave me that as my nickname. No DON'T WORRY I'm not wooing all the Chuukese ladies out here but maybe it will help me in the long run when I return home. ha
A watte ai tong ngenikemi. Ewe tong a nom rei fan itemi ese kuch fonufan ika fan sat. Chechemeni pur ai tong esap much! Love your guys' guts!
Tong Jaiwak!
Elder Wells "Ito"
Monday, November 2, 2009
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