Ia ora na tatou!
What a nice Christmas week! I'm getting over the chikungunya
disease more and more and I've been able to go out and work pretty much every
day. Sadly, the disease has taken over our entire household. 4 other elders got
the sickness this week, including Elder Duncan! So basically I went on splits
with Elder Openshaw mostly this week to work in our two areas while the other
elders spent a nice Christmas vacation at home. You cant really call it a
vacation though when you're suffering from head to toe!
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| Casey with Ami Reagan and his wife |
We actually had a baptism this week! I haven't talked a whole
lot about her but her name is Keali. She's 11 years old and her family,
consisting of her mother and step father, is all members, except for her real
father who was against her baptism up until now. Since the moment that Keali's
real dad gave her the OK to be baptised, we were called over to start doing the
lessons to help Keali prepare for baptism. She was ready a long time ago, so
the lessons were just review for her. It was a great service, and her father
even came and enjoyed the service. Keali's happy to be a member of the church!
C---- and K---- are still doing super well. They read
the Book of Mormon every night, and K---- is already in the middle of Alma
where they have all the war chapters. When we ask her what her thoughts are
about what she read, she goes giving a straight up detailed summary of what she
read. She says stuff like "The Nephites prospered in the 27th year of the
reign of the judges... or was it the 28th..? Nope, it was the 27th! Then in the
28th year..." And she just continues. She's so into it and pays attention
and remembers everything! C---- has been loving it too. He still has a goal
to be baptized, it's just the marriage that he isn't sure about. If he continues
like he's been doing, he'll have enough faith to do anything.
Other than that, not a whole lot went down this week, except
for Christmas! It was good to talk to the family on Skype, and shoutout to the
Slavens family who decided to drop by Bora and say hello on Christmas! In
addition to conversation with family and friends, I don't think I've ever eaten
so much in my life like I have this week. Christmas eve we spent dinner time at
our ward mission leader's home with several other member families. We had duck,
oysters, steak, potatoes, salmon, poisson cru, caviar, lasagna, and everything
you could imagine. We went to town! Then every other meal we had with members
were leftovers from their Christmas dinners. Now after this week I am in an
incredible habit of eating at least three full plates of food. I couldn't do
that before. What a blessing.
That's it for this week! We're praying that this chikununya
will get out of our house as soon as possible so that we can kick off the new
year nice and strong. I love you all and Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!
Elder Ball
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