Well here's my fun note for all of you. So I get left at the airport for a few hours, then I get off the plane and into a straight culture shock. Literally the first thing I see is this tiny building outside the plane. All the passengers go through the line and then there happens to be this lady who uh, follows the Yapese culture... And puts a lei (flower necklace) around each person's neck. She wore local clothes, which is a grass skirt and just a grass skirt... This place will be an adjustment for sure!
This island feels much more like the life my brothers' described from their missions. I have no smart phone now, I'll just say 'I'm FREE"! The smartphones are really going to enhance the work but I also had that inner desire to get away from using technology and serve part of my mission without it. I am going to really have to adjust to this place though, it is a whole different world. The Island of Yap is a place with much less comfort than Guam.
My spiritual note this week came from a talk I heard in general conference, while in my personal study. Elder Terrence M. Vinson talks about being "fair dinkum" about the gospel. It means YOU ARE WHAT YOU SAY YOU ARE and when you are committed you are "ALL IN"and I absolutely love that. We claim to be disciples of Jesus Christ. We claim that we know the Book of Mormon is true, that we have a living prophet today who leads and guides the one true church. If we are to testify of these truths we must also live them. Be who we say we are, Disciples of Jesus Christ.
Let us all go full throttle with the Gospel. Yes we will still get hit, but knowing that we can continually press forward without fear of those attacks is what brings me comfort. Be fair dinkum. Don't hold back! I love you all, Elder George
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| Elders George and Goff - I loved working in Talefofo, it means God's country |
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| We Three - Elder Nascimento, Elder Goth and Me |
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| Goodbye Guam it sure is beautiful! |
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| Elder Goff has a way with animals... |
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| Our Senior Missionaries: Elders & Sisters Buck, Wiser, Hicks, Van, Taylor and Schiele |
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| Our threesome is down to two. I left them at the airport and will really miss those guys! |
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| Don't feel too bad about the weather there. It could be worse! We are all fine but Saipan got hit pretty hard. The rest of us just got a lot of rain. |
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