2/22/10
Fakkun Ran Allim chapur ngenikemi!!
Man, that was a good week of e-mails!! Thanks everyone! I'm still kicking around out here in the middle of the Pacific all systems are go! Sometimes I forget I'm on an island... Guam is sooooo big! But on a map it looks super teeny tiny, but after being in Chuuk for so long I can hardly classify Guam as an island. ha
Alright I'll give you the low down on my comp before I forget. His name is Elder Sandvik, he's actually a convert of about 2 1/2 years now. He is from Portland, Oregon and is the only member in his family, which is pretty neat. He served in Guam for 4 months then in Pohnpei for about a year and he's been back in Guam for about 4 months. He's a good guy, really dedicated.
Me being from Chuuk everything is very laid back and you have to adapt to that or you will definitely go crazy (especially on an island of 600... Romalum), and I had no problem with that seeing as I started out in Romalum.ha But it seems everywhere else in the mission is go go go all eight cylinders all the time! ha Which is good but I'm from a different world and getting adjusted to that is crazy. ha
This week I had another funny experience with my Chuukese. We ran into some Chuukese that knew really really good English, which is very odd. Anyway, I spoke to them in English and they looked at me and asked me if I was from Romalum. I told them that I served in Romalum while I was in Chuuk for about four months and then they just gave me this dumbfounded look. They said my English sounded like I was from Romalum! I didn't know that was possible but I won't lie I was stoked about that! Then a missionary serving in Palau that is from Chuuk said the same thing when I gave our Zone Leader Council training that I sounded like I was from Romalum the whole time I was training and so I started listening to myself and you know what? I did! ha It's crazy but it makes me happy! ha
Our Zone Leader council went well except for the fact that only half the ZL's showed up. ha The flight that picks up Pohnpei, Kosrae and Chuuk just decided not to come. So they stayed on their islands and they'll be flying in next week so that we can do another ZL Council for them! Gangsta! I'm so pumped to see Elder Kuss! I love his guts and I miss him a ton. We trained on Chapters 8&9 in Preach My Gospel and so we kind of took the needs of the mission and trained on how Chapters 8&9 can help fix those. It went really well with a lot of input from the Zone Leaders which always makes it better. The best part is thinking of sweet ideas and activities that we can do so that the Zone Leaders don't fall asleep on us. I came up with some good ones! ha The idea behind the activities is like what you talked about dad; about remembering the spirit and what we felt from the Zone Conference or the Zone Leader Council. The activities are easy to remember and it will bring back the feeling and emotions that were tied to that activity and to that conference, so the more memorable the better!
It looks like we'll be flying out to Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae in two weeks. We'll spend a week and a half visiting the islands and the missionaries on them and I'm pumped out of my mind to be going back to Chuuk! Speaking of Chuuk, the Zone Leaders got kicked out of their house by a mob of men Friday night! ha The new church is almost done and the Chuukese men are getting antsy and they really want the old church and the missionary house for their own. So late Friday night they came to the missionary house and told them they had to leave. Poor Kuss and Cherrington. Kuss was able to talk them into sleeping the night and then the next morning they took off to go live in Wichap with all their stuff. I'm sad I missed out on that! Now I'm not saying that they couldn't handle themselves but Kuss is a very humble very submissive Chuukese man. So a group of men coming to their house would equal Kuss agreeing to whatever they wanted. If I was there it would have been a different story... there is no way I would've been kicked out of that house! They would have had to physically remove me from the house if they were serious and I'm not just kidding! As soon as I heard that they got kicked out I had about ten different approaches I would've taken to the men and I'm positive we would've stayed in that house. Now I'm not boasting, don't get me wrong, but I've already dealt with people trying to get me off our land and I worked them over, all except for in Paata (But to be fair Paata people are a lot crazier than those from Weno). Yeah so anyway I was pretty disappointed about not being there for all the excitement it would have been a blast!!
The box came!! Thank you so much for that blanket!!!! I can survive at night now! Thanks for those cookies too! They were soft, and all the missionaries loved them! Oh man! Nerisa, the girl we baptized from Paata along with her Grandma and Grandpa came to Guam and the missionaries found them!!!! She is living with her real mom and dad and with all her brothers and sisters and I just talked to the missionaries and they said they're all golden and will definitely get baptized!! I'm so pumped about that!!! I'm going to have to work out an exchange with those missionaries so that I can go see her and her family and get them baptized!! She is so cute and her family is going to get baptized because they're all the blood of Abraham! Man! I love Chuukese!!
Ok, I gotta brag about the Chuukese real quick. The Chuukese in Guam are the people that missionaries have the most success with. Why? Because they are the most humble of islanders and they always want to learn about God! They're studs! There are Chuukese young men here in Guam that are preparing to serve missions, one actually just sent his papers in, and they all are just the most amazing investigators!! Every missionary here in Guam will tell you that Chuukese are the most humble and most accepting of the gospel! They just don't know english and most of the missionaries here don't know Chuukese so they progress slowly! There's just not enough Chuukese speakers! So yeah Chuukese are the bomb and my new Chuukese family here in Guam fed me some mai "breadfruit" the other day and it made my world! I love them so much!
Ok this is a really long one. Wow! Ua fakkun tongeikemi seni anonnonen puei! "I love you all from the deepness of my belly button!"
Keept it real my pwipwi's
Tong Ennet fiti Jaiwak!
Elder Wells "Ito"
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
I'm Half Chuukese
2/15/10
Ran Allim ami!
I'm alive! But I guess that's not any real surprise now that I'm in Guam.ha Last week when I got on e-mail I had tons of e-mails and that was exciting! This week There was two! From mom and dad, but they were the only ones who sent me letters anyway... So to all you siblings who said that because you could e-mail it would be easier to write, you kinda lied. ha I'm kidding it's all good, but definitely not as fun to get e-mails. Letters in the Post Office Box are the undoubtedly best!
I haven't seen the box as of yet, but I'm sure it'll get here. I mean I'm on Guam, what could possibly go wrong? Those recruits to BYU sound good, keep me updated. Sometimes I get butterflies in my stomach when I think about going back and swimming, how much it's going to hurt and how it's going to drive me crazy that those young guys will be beating me because of two years out of the water!ha
President Dowdle tends to feel that it's better to go home and then come back, that way the missionary could do things that he couldn't do on his mission, especially in these islands. But I'm cool with whatever you guys are cool with. I kind of think it would be cool to come home and that be it, and then come back at a later time (if at all possible). Because then it would have been a longer time since I'd seen all the people and I think it would be a sweeter reunion. And I'm not gonna lie I definitely want to swim in the water!
Ok, Sampo is the name of the Chuukese kid that will get baptized in March and he's being studly as of now! He came to church last week and enjoyed the Chuukese class. In our branch there is a Sunday School class that's just in Chuukese! Chuukese are the most populous people in Micronesia and they are everywhere. At least that's what it seems like when you talk to anybody who's lived in Guam for a while. So he went to that, and I usually go as well because I get so darn happy when I get to hang with all Chuukese for and hour. He's a stud!
I am able to use Chuukese every day. Usually one lesson a day is average. But there have been some days where I've taught 4-5 lessons in Chuukese and those are bomb days! The Chuukese are in certain areas and the Assistants before Elder Sandvik and I never really went to those areas because the Chuukese in Guam have limited English. But ever since I got here we've been spending more time in those areas because I speak Chuukese. That's actually the reason my companion is learning Chuukese because we actually spend enough time in Chuukese areas where there are sometimes hours on end when all spoken is Chuukese and he doesn't like being out of the conversation and not knowing what's going on, so he's learning it so he can know what's going down!
I have a thick Romalum accent and everywhere I go in Guam all the Chuukese look at me way funny because once I speak they hear my accent and they look all confused because I'm white.ha It's so funny! Then I always tell them that I'm from Utah but I'm half Chuukese and that my dad was from Romalum, and they believe it! Just sometimes really confused about how I turned so white. It earns a lot of respect that I have an accent, because it means I don't sound like a white person with a crazy accent trying to speak Chuukese, rather I am a white person that speaks Chuukese. Most people fall into the white person, crazy accent, trying to speak Chuukese category but Elder Sorenson and I broke it. I'm not boasting, this is what Chuukese themselves have said, Elder Kuss (and others) in specific.
Yesterday I had my first Guam Zone Conference. We trained along with the Zone Leaders. We didn't have to train nearly as long as I did in Chuuk as Zone Leader and it was interesting and enjoyable to be sitting and listening to the majority of the training. Our training was supposed to kind of spice things up so everyone doesn't get bored of listening to the Zone Leaders for hours on end, so I got up and rocked their socks off Chuuk style! ha They didn't know what hit them.
Tonight all the Zone Leaders are flying in from the other islands for Zone Leader Council tomorrow. We will be training the Zone Leaders all of tomorrow and then go bowling (my idea). Guess how long we get to train for. From 9am to 5pm! With an hour lunch and a President Dowdle presentation. But the great majority is us!! I don't know if I have seven hours of things to talk about!! ha It'll be great! We have lot's of activities that will keep everyone moving so no one will fall asleep on us, which is actually my biggest worry.ha
It'll be super! I love your faces off!
Don't die!
Tong Ennet fiti Jaiwak!
Elder Wells "Ito"
Ran Allim ami!
I'm alive! But I guess that's not any real surprise now that I'm in Guam.ha Last week when I got on e-mail I had tons of e-mails and that was exciting! This week There was two! From mom and dad, but they were the only ones who sent me letters anyway... So to all you siblings who said that because you could e-mail it would be easier to write, you kinda lied. ha I'm kidding it's all good, but definitely not as fun to get e-mails. Letters in the Post Office Box are the undoubtedly best!
I haven't seen the box as of yet, but I'm sure it'll get here. I mean I'm on Guam, what could possibly go wrong? Those recruits to BYU sound good, keep me updated. Sometimes I get butterflies in my stomach when I think about going back and swimming, how much it's going to hurt and how it's going to drive me crazy that those young guys will be beating me because of two years out of the water!ha
President Dowdle tends to feel that it's better to go home and then come back, that way the missionary could do things that he couldn't do on his mission, especially in these islands. But I'm cool with whatever you guys are cool with. I kind of think it would be cool to come home and that be it, and then come back at a later time (if at all possible). Because then it would have been a longer time since I'd seen all the people and I think it would be a sweeter reunion. And I'm not gonna lie I definitely want to swim in the water!
Ok, Sampo is the name of the Chuukese kid that will get baptized in March and he's being studly as of now! He came to church last week and enjoyed the Chuukese class. In our branch there is a Sunday School class that's just in Chuukese! Chuukese are the most populous people in Micronesia and they are everywhere. At least that's what it seems like when you talk to anybody who's lived in Guam for a while. So he went to that, and I usually go as well because I get so darn happy when I get to hang with all Chuukese for and hour. He's a stud!
I am able to use Chuukese every day. Usually one lesson a day is average. But there have been some days where I've taught 4-5 lessons in Chuukese and those are bomb days! The Chuukese are in certain areas and the Assistants before Elder Sandvik and I never really went to those areas because the Chuukese in Guam have limited English. But ever since I got here we've been spending more time in those areas because I speak Chuukese. That's actually the reason my companion is learning Chuukese because we actually spend enough time in Chuukese areas where there are sometimes hours on end when all spoken is Chuukese and he doesn't like being out of the conversation and not knowing what's going on, so he's learning it so he can know what's going down!
I have a thick Romalum accent and everywhere I go in Guam all the Chuukese look at me way funny because once I speak they hear my accent and they look all confused because I'm white.ha It's so funny! Then I always tell them that I'm from Utah but I'm half Chuukese and that my dad was from Romalum, and they believe it! Just sometimes really confused about how I turned so white. It earns a lot of respect that I have an accent, because it means I don't sound like a white person with a crazy accent trying to speak Chuukese, rather I am a white person that speaks Chuukese. Most people fall into the white person, crazy accent, trying to speak Chuukese category but Elder Sorenson and I broke it. I'm not boasting, this is what Chuukese themselves have said, Elder Kuss (and others) in specific.
Yesterday I had my first Guam Zone Conference. We trained along with the Zone Leaders. We didn't have to train nearly as long as I did in Chuuk as Zone Leader and it was interesting and enjoyable to be sitting and listening to the majority of the training. Our training was supposed to kind of spice things up so everyone doesn't get bored of listening to the Zone Leaders for hours on end, so I got up and rocked their socks off Chuuk style! ha They didn't know what hit them.
Tonight all the Zone Leaders are flying in from the other islands for Zone Leader Council tomorrow. We will be training the Zone Leaders all of tomorrow and then go bowling (my idea). Guess how long we get to train for. From 9am to 5pm! With an hour lunch and a President Dowdle presentation. But the great majority is us!! I don't know if I have seven hours of things to talk about!! ha It'll be great! We have lot's of activities that will keep everyone moving so no one will fall asleep on us, which is actually my biggest worry.ha
It'll be super! I love your faces off!
Don't die!
Tong Ennet fiti Jaiwak!
Elder Wells "Ito"
Monday, February 8, 2010
"English, Elder Wells, English"
Wonei! I checked my e-mail and there were so many! I was blown out of the water! It was insane! Thanks a million and a half it was great to here from you all again. I think the last time I heard from everybody was way back when I started this whole thing! ha
McKenzie that article about you was way cool!! You look very pretty in your picture as well. I really like the part about me in there... ha You're amazing, those times sound fantastic! Speaking of times, I had my best times posted above my bed for my whole mission as goals to achieve when I returned but when I left Chuuk I forgot the paper. Could you get a list or something of my best times so that I can make a new goal sheet here? That would be awesome.
Kelsey!!!!!!!! You're alive! Thanks for your letter, and you're going to buy a car... that's nuts! You can just continue to tell everybody that I serve in Chuuk because that's definitely where my heart is, so just tell people that. There are actually lot's of Chuukese on Guam and my love for Chuukese people has exponentially grown over these two weeks!! I love their faces off!! Every time I see them it makes my day and I go into Chuukese mode and just sit and talk with them for a good amount of time, while my companion sits and looks bored. ha... So now he's learning Chuukese! I'm teaching him Chuukese and we only speak Chuukese when we're in the car, so pretty much I'm just talking my head off to him so that I can remember Chuukese and he just sits in a half smile stupor. ha ha It's great, and we actually teach quite a few Chuukese people and so I teach them in Chuukese which is so much more comfortable. Actually when we're sitting in English lessons it has happened multiple times where I'll be teaching and I'll be getting all excited while I'm speaking and than Elder S will tap me on the knee and say: "English, Elder Wells, english" Than I realize that I've been speaking Chuukese to the people for 15-20 sec. depending on when Elder S decides to stop me. One time he didn't stop me and I guess I kept going for minutes... ha It's hard to think in English again, and if I can put some cohesive English together it's usually a Chuukese sentence that I translated into English which sounds funny! ha ha It's good though and I'm still doing wonderful missionary work.
Changing from Chuuk to Guam was shocking for my body. I'm freezing every night. (my bed is a mattress that feels so cold and I'd rather not sleep on it so I tried the ground but that's just tile and even colder than the mattress so I just end up freezing either way) I keep getting bloody noses because... I don't know why. I think it's the aircon but Guam is definitely not as humid as Chuuk. It's not nearly as hot either, even when I'm outside I don't sweat, but man in Chuuk, you step out the door for a minute and you're sweating away. I don't see the ocean every day, and that's very disconcerting. I've seen the ocean everyday of mission until I came to Guam, it's weird and I don't really like that. I like the water! But there is this 50m racing pool that's close to our apartment and I stare at it the whole time we drive past it. It's so beautiful I never thought a pool could look so beautiful, but it does!
So my new job I get to plan sweet trainings for the Zone Leaders and other missionaries and have meetings with President Dowdle where we discuss transfers and a bunch of other confidential information, we go on exchanges with missionaries and once a transfer we go on tour to half of the mission and the next transfer we go to the other half. So yes, I will see all the islands in Micronesia and yes I will return to Chuuk twice which I'm pumped out of my mind about!! I'm surprised that mom knows all about that! How do you find all that out?!
We have a Chuukese boy who will be getting baptized the beginning of March and he's a stud! I've been asking everyone and their dog for breadfruit "Mai" here in Guam but I haven't had any yet. I'm going through withdrawals going without breadfruit, taro, tapioca, and fresh reef fish. Going insane is a better word for it, I don't know what to eat here! ha I have so many options and all I want is simply delicious "kon" pounded breadfruit with a "sashimi" style reef fish. Wonei!!! That's good!
I love missionary work and I do like Guam, but Chuuk is the bomb I'm not going to lie. Oh yeah, there was a family that Elder Kuss and I found and taught in Chuuk that was baptized last Saturday!! I would've been there but I was uprooted from Chuuk and placed here. ha But they got baptized, that's what really matters and they're straight up studs!
Well I love you all so much! Thanks for your letters and support! The mailing address is correct mom so you can send boxes here. I miss getting letters!! Letters are much more exciting!! But boxes are always exciting no matter where I am... at least I'm pretty sure(you should probably send one and try)ha
Tong Ennet fiti Jaiwak!
Elder Wells "Ito"
McKenzie that article about you was way cool!! You look very pretty in your picture as well. I really like the part about me in there... ha You're amazing, those times sound fantastic! Speaking of times, I had my best times posted above my bed for my whole mission as goals to achieve when I returned but when I left Chuuk I forgot the paper. Could you get a list or something of my best times so that I can make a new goal sheet here? That would be awesome.
Kelsey!!!!!!!! You're alive! Thanks for your letter, and you're going to buy a car... that's nuts! You can just continue to tell everybody that I serve in Chuuk because that's definitely where my heart is, so just tell people that. There are actually lot's of Chuukese on Guam and my love for Chuukese people has exponentially grown over these two weeks!! I love their faces off!! Every time I see them it makes my day and I go into Chuukese mode and just sit and talk with them for a good amount of time, while my companion sits and looks bored. ha... So now he's learning Chuukese! I'm teaching him Chuukese and we only speak Chuukese when we're in the car, so pretty much I'm just talking my head off to him so that I can remember Chuukese and he just sits in a half smile stupor. ha ha It's great, and we actually teach quite a few Chuukese people and so I teach them in Chuukese which is so much more comfortable. Actually when we're sitting in English lessons it has happened multiple times where I'll be teaching and I'll be getting all excited while I'm speaking and than Elder S will tap me on the knee and say: "English, Elder Wells, english" Than I realize that I've been speaking Chuukese to the people for 15-20 sec. depending on when Elder S decides to stop me. One time he didn't stop me and I guess I kept going for minutes... ha It's hard to think in English again, and if I can put some cohesive English together it's usually a Chuukese sentence that I translated into English which sounds funny! ha ha It's good though and I'm still doing wonderful missionary work.
Changing from Chuuk to Guam was shocking for my body. I'm freezing every night. (my bed is a mattress that feels so cold and I'd rather not sleep on it so I tried the ground but that's just tile and even colder than the mattress so I just end up freezing either way) I keep getting bloody noses because... I don't know why. I think it's the aircon but Guam is definitely not as humid as Chuuk. It's not nearly as hot either, even when I'm outside I don't sweat, but man in Chuuk, you step out the door for a minute and you're sweating away. I don't see the ocean every day, and that's very disconcerting. I've seen the ocean everyday of mission until I came to Guam, it's weird and I don't really like that. I like the water! But there is this 50m racing pool that's close to our apartment and I stare at it the whole time we drive past it. It's so beautiful I never thought a pool could look so beautiful, but it does!
So my new job I get to plan sweet trainings for the Zone Leaders and other missionaries and have meetings with President Dowdle where we discuss transfers and a bunch of other confidential information, we go on exchanges with missionaries and once a transfer we go on tour to half of the mission and the next transfer we go to the other half. So yes, I will see all the islands in Micronesia and yes I will return to Chuuk twice which I'm pumped out of my mind about!! I'm surprised that mom knows all about that! How do you find all that out?!
We have a Chuukese boy who will be getting baptized the beginning of March and he's a stud! I've been asking everyone and their dog for breadfruit "Mai" here in Guam but I haven't had any yet. I'm going through withdrawals going without breadfruit, taro, tapioca, and fresh reef fish. Going insane is a better word for it, I don't know what to eat here! ha I have so many options and all I want is simply delicious "kon" pounded breadfruit with a "sashimi" style reef fish. Wonei!!! That's good!
I love missionary work and I do like Guam, but Chuuk is the bomb I'm not going to lie. Oh yeah, there was a family that Elder Kuss and I found and taught in Chuuk that was baptized last Saturday!! I would've been there but I was uprooted from Chuuk and placed here. ha But they got baptized, that's what really matters and they're straight up studs!
Well I love you all so much! Thanks for your letters and support! The mailing address is correct mom so you can send boxes here. I miss getting letters!! Letters are much more exciting!! But boxes are always exciting no matter where I am... at least I'm pretty sure(you should probably send one and try)ha
Tong Ennet fiti Jaiwak!
Elder Wells "Ito"
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
A Fish Out of Water
I will definitely be doing e-mail here seeing as that I get free e-mail here in the office because I'm in here part of the time. Wonei!
I don't know what in the world I'm doing here in Guam, I feel like I'm a fish out of water and it blows my mind! I could tell you all so much but it would take pages and pages because everything I do is a new experience! Like knocking on doors! I knocked on my first door of my mission the other day, and that was nuts, I also gave my first door approach and that was a memorable one! I'm still getting grief about it. You'll have to remember to ask me about it when I return.
Right now I'm with Elder Sandvik and Elder Brown, I will be replacing Elder Brown and let me tell you all, they are experienced Guam missionaries. I'm an experienced Chuuk missionary but that accounts for jack squat here on Guam and I feel as if I'm centuries behind them. I'm just on a steep learning curve.
I live in an apartment with the office elders. The Ap's and the office elders stay together because they work together a lot. The apartment is huge by the way! I think if you took every house that I stayed in in Chuuk and put them together that this apartment would be quite bigger! It blows my mind!. There's so much room everywhere! It's fun though to have four elders all the time. there is a real weight bench in the apartment and that's gangster so I can still lift so I'm pumped about that!
I'm now cruising around in this sweet minivan and I'm freezing all the time because the aircon's are insanely powerful!! I keep expecting power to go off at any minute but it never does and I sometimes catch myself wondering why the power company does such a good job here. Guam definitely isn't as hot as Chuuk, it's definitely not as green as Chuuk either, but their are quite a few Chuukese here in Guam and it makes my day whenever I meet one because then i can just speak all the Chuukese I want and I feel like I know a little bit of where I am. Then when I'm done talking to the Chuukese person my head is in a whirlwind again and I don't know what I'm doing. They do missionary work at night which is weird and I need to get used to. They wake up later because they don't need light to do missionary work here like in Chuuk. My shirts never seem to get dirty. They don't have sweat stains or anything like that at the end of the day and so I feel that I can wear my shirts for 3 or 4 days... so I do! Oh man and pants never get dirty here I could go for weeks with the same pants. I was actually thinking that I could go 3-4 weeks without doing laundry here, but I guess I'll follow the crowd and do it every week. I'm convinced that my clothes would get dirtier in week in Chuuk than 5 weeks in Guam and I'd be fully willing to go that long without doing laundry. Don't think I'm weird or uncivil but that's really my honest belief after having served in Chuuk.
Thank you so much for those pictures of the Josephs they absolutely loved them!!! It was so fun to see them look at those pictures!! It blew them away they were so pumped!! Thank you so so so so so much for doing that! They will remember you all forever. They said to give an extra thanks to you from them, they wanted to do something for you all but I said that if they just remembered that they had family that lived in Orem Utah that would be enough. They agreed! Which means that you all have a family in Chuuk!! That's something special let me tell you. That poster was so cool!!
Ok, i could go on forever and ever but I gotta stop because I need to go play some sweet volleyball!!
Tong Jaiwak!!,
Elder Wells "Ito"
oh man no one is going to call me that anymore.
I don't know what in the world I'm doing here in Guam, I feel like I'm a fish out of water and it blows my mind! I could tell you all so much but it would take pages and pages because everything I do is a new experience! Like knocking on doors! I knocked on my first door of my mission the other day, and that was nuts, I also gave my first door approach and that was a memorable one! I'm still getting grief about it. You'll have to remember to ask me about it when I return.
Right now I'm with Elder Sandvik and Elder Brown, I will be replacing Elder Brown and let me tell you all, they are experienced Guam missionaries. I'm an experienced Chuuk missionary but that accounts for jack squat here on Guam and I feel as if I'm centuries behind them. I'm just on a steep learning curve.
I live in an apartment with the office elders. The Ap's and the office elders stay together because they work together a lot. The apartment is huge by the way! I think if you took every house that I stayed in in Chuuk and put them together that this apartment would be quite bigger! It blows my mind!. There's so much room everywhere! It's fun though to have four elders all the time. there is a real weight bench in the apartment and that's gangster so I can still lift so I'm pumped about that!
I'm now cruising around in this sweet minivan and I'm freezing all the time because the aircon's are insanely powerful!! I keep expecting power to go off at any minute but it never does and I sometimes catch myself wondering why the power company does such a good job here. Guam definitely isn't as hot as Chuuk, it's definitely not as green as Chuuk either, but their are quite a few Chuukese here in Guam and it makes my day whenever I meet one because then i can just speak all the Chuukese I want and I feel like I know a little bit of where I am. Then when I'm done talking to the Chuukese person my head is in a whirlwind again and I don't know what I'm doing. They do missionary work at night which is weird and I need to get used to. They wake up later because they don't need light to do missionary work here like in Chuuk. My shirts never seem to get dirty. They don't have sweat stains or anything like that at the end of the day and so I feel that I can wear my shirts for 3 or 4 days... so I do! Oh man and pants never get dirty here I could go for weeks with the same pants. I was actually thinking that I could go 3-4 weeks without doing laundry here, but I guess I'll follow the crowd and do it every week. I'm convinced that my clothes would get dirtier in week in Chuuk than 5 weeks in Guam and I'd be fully willing to go that long without doing laundry. Don't think I'm weird or uncivil but that's really my honest belief after having served in Chuuk.
Thank you so much for those pictures of the Josephs they absolutely loved them!!! It was so fun to see them look at those pictures!! It blew them away they were so pumped!! Thank you so so so so so much for doing that! They will remember you all forever. They said to give an extra thanks to you from them, they wanted to do something for you all but I said that if they just remembered that they had family that lived in Orem Utah that would be enough. They agreed! Which means that you all have a family in Chuuk!! That's something special let me tell you. That poster was so cool!!
Ok, i could go on forever and ever but I gotta stop because I need to go play some sweet volleyball!!
Tong Jaiwak!!,
Elder Wells "Ito"
oh man no one is going to call me that anymore.
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