APRIL 24, 2017 SNAIL MAIL NEPWONG ABY MEINISIN!

This last week has been nuts.  Lots of ups and downs, but it ended up pretty good.  Si i will start with the downs.  I don't know what it is with Chuukese people, but every time it rains everybody drinks a ton and nobody does work or anything.  All the women just stay inside and eat and then all fo the teenage boys and men get drunk, walking around causing all sorts of problems to everyone.  Well, this while week it has just poured pretty much non stop except for one day.  Sot his while week consisted with walking everywhere all day soaking wet in the rain dealing with a bunch of drink people and having no lessons basically!  How awesome is that?

When we don't have work, the tim seems to go soooo slowly!  Another thing that was hard is that our main investigator named Erephin (who is so awesome) has been gone all week on an outer, outer island called Uut for his cousin's funeral.  A lot of other people we teach from that village went also because they are all family.  Erephin would have been drunk if he were here.  He is such a good man.  He is about 28ish and such a good husband.  You rarely find that here in Chuuk.  I am trying to convince Enephin to let me adopt his 3 year old little girl.  haha  She is the cutest thing ever!  So don't be upset if I come home with a kid.  Haha  Her name is Eri-Jane.  I'll have to send a picture.  So the day that it didn't rain this week, there was a big wedding.  weddings mean food so everyone on the island goes.  We went too!  Weddings here are crazy.  They just blast Chuukese music or Honun Namanam and everyone dances like crazy.  It's hilarious.  haha  No body really knows how to dance so people just throw their bodies in every direction as fast as they can.  It's better than I could ever do. Super funny to watch.  There was so much food that they gave us.  It is SO not good.  This food is killing me!  Man, I miss McDonalds!  As always, the food made us sick and now we are making countless trips to the bathroom  :)!  The wedding was still way fun!  Some people came from Hawaii for the wedding so they knew English.  It was sooo weird to speak English.  I am forgetting how!  I am messing up all of my words!  All of the missionaries are awful at English now.  It's not just me.  Chuukese is just so different.  It messes everything up.  LOL

Our other high this week is Sunday morning we went to the other side of the island to our area to try and invite people to walk with us to church.  No one was home, but we decided to hurry and go see if there was any chance Erephin came back from the other island.  We ran over to his house last second and he was home!  He had got home late the night before.  He was all showered up and ready to go!  So Erephin came to church and he really enjoyed it.  He payed attention the while time.  So that mad me so happy for him and it was the highlight of my week.  Hopefully this group in Enin starts up soon so more people will actually come to church.

Well, Mother's Day is coming soon so Mom expect a call from me so we can set up a time you want me to call you.  What's y'alls plan for Mother's Day?

Uwa men tongeikemi!  Ngang mi pwan ekieki usemi iteitan ran.  Sipway fos fengen.

Love you!
Elder Saylin

PS  Mom, any way you can send me a razor?  My electric one doesn't work in this humidity and I bought some cheap ones here but I'm all out now and they cut my face up.  Elder B said his mom got his from Costco and it comes with a bunch of blades  you can change so it will last.  Thank YOU!