Pretty good week here in Tol! It's been a long, exhausting week, but this last Saturday made up for it all! We had Josanna, Joseia, Omae, Rinenta, and Juty get baptized! It was super cool. Way happy for them! Josanna, Joseia, and Ogame are brothers and sisters. Er already baptized their 2 older sisters and their older brother! It was sad though, because their Mom, Momma Fineina, was supposed to be baptized last Saturday, too. She didn't pass the baptismal interview because she said she had smoked again. She said that's her last time now and will be baptized next week! Our bodies are gifts from God and am grateful He asks us to take care of them. I think she was pretty sad about not being baptized with her kids who were ready, so it will motivate her to keep the word of wisdom. Juty and Rinenta are just the cutest 2 little girls. We have also baptized their 2 older sisters, too. Ther mom, Aiwi and their dad, Taieto, will also be getting baptized soon, too. They need to get married first and Taieto needs to come to church more. Elder L, a missionary here from Samoa just went home. Before he left, he gave me his white lava-lava to perform baptisms in! So I wore it this last time! It was legit! We had to boat over to Romolum again, too, because there is not a good baptismal spot on Tol.
This upcoming week we could have anywhere from 3-14 baptisms. Three are for sure. The other ten people have all been to church a million times and are ready. We need to get permission from some of their families first. We are praying and fasting that their huge families will support them! I know they will and it'll be good!
So on Monday- Wednesday this last week, I went on an exchange back to Udot again. I forgot how gorgeous that island is! Somebody kissed me for the first time in seven months! HAHAHAHA So we walked into this tiny sand village right on the water that's perfectly clear called Kuum. This guy had a speaker and was blasting music. All these kids and teenagers were hanging out dancing and playing in the water as well as playing volleyball. Well, we were walking through so to fit in, I started to dance haha, so then the people started laughing and dancing more, too. Then, out of no where, this 45 year old skinny lade (who is legit crazy) starts going nuts and is dancing like crazy! So, I stopped and was just thinking, "Please don't come over here. Please don't. Please don't!" She then makes her way right over to me as I was trying to avoid her hahahah . Then she grabs my arm and tries to lift it up to get me to dance. Everyone is now watching. I don't do anything ...LOL. Then she grabs my hand, bows, and kisses my hand 1, 010, 010 times. I think my jaw hit the ground! haha I just stood there in shock! All the kids and guys and girls just went nuts. They were laughing so hard. hahahah . I just yelled, "What the!?!?!" haha So, yeah, that all happened. I was laughing so hard after that, too, though.
SO PUMPED FOR THIS WEEK! Elder Jeffrey R. Holland is coming to our mission! Because we are all on islands and we are spread out as wide as America, we can't all get together. He's going to Guam and then we will go into the main island Chuuk. We are going to facetime into him and he's going to talk to all of us. Going to be so awesome!
Miss y'all tons. Love you!
Elder Saylin
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