Still no Boat 4/20/09

hey pop no word on transfers yet but im waiting with bated > breath if i > stay i will get a new comp and 3 more months of fun and > exetment here > in niua who knows where i will go if i leave. they are > trying to get a > boat to come up with some supplies but im not holding my > breath. im > not quite sure how they would get us out of here for > transfers but hey > luckily im just an indian not a chief i just follow orders. > that box > will probably be getting here right around transfer time so > if we do > any moving around they will be able to get it up to me. im > anxious to > get the card reader i have a lot of really good pictures on > my camera > and the tongans are not all that technologically savy so im > scared the > pictures might get deleted i would be highly distraught. > unfortunately > we dont ride horses very often mostly we just walk alot > ALOT we did > six hours of straight wakling thursday back and forth > across the > island trying to get some stuff done i have worn through 2 > pairs of > flip flops and a pair of sandals these sandols right now > are broken > but i cant buy any new ones so i just wear them anyway. my > feet are > pretty darn tough now days. well i love you and hope your > knee gets > better try not to work to hard love > elder mayberry

I'm not that stinky 4/19/09

OK I'm not that stinky i still shower i just use Tongan soap its a
[plant that you chew up and rub on your body like soap it smells nice
but it really doesn't clean as well as good old soap. tell thomas that
the tazer is pretty cool i made one in north dakota i thought it was
cool until my roommate tazzered me back. i'm glad school is going well
for you and that the house has turned into a mayberry terarium for
reptiles and unwanted species;-) everything is going well here but the
work is going kinda slow as always we only taught five lessons this
week do to the fact that we did a lot of service helping out in people
farm/gardens to earn us some food. talk about with out purse or scrip
(i finally found out what a scrip is and the saying makes a lot more
sense now) im having a brain fart right now as to what i should write
to you and for some reason my fingers dexterity is severely waning so
i cant type to save me life today sorry about the spelling. but know
that i love you all the work is going forward here. paul said some will
water and some will harvest i was lucky enough to be one of the ones
planting hopefully the harvest will be great someday. the people here
are really amazing and they have very big hearts they just dont know
what they are missing out on yet. the church is true water is wet and
lapilla is a fish.. sorry you probably wont get that one but ill
explain it a little bit here int eh middle of the island is a lake
that nothing used to live in and a hundred or so years or so ago they
brought this little fish here to populate the lake and now they are
literaly teeming and really easu to catch so that is what we eat
almost everyday they are only about 6-7 inches long full grown and
have a lot of bones but are pretty tasty we eat them raw boiled and
grilled (grilled is best) so any way i love you all and wish you well
elder mayberry


hey boo boy thanks for the email its good to hear from you. im glad
your having fun and doing well im doing good here. im still in niua
transfers are not for another two weeks and i might be staying for a
few more months anyways. no boats have come yet but we sure want them
to. we walk around the lake when we cross the island the island is a
volcano so to get to the lake you have to climb some mountains and
then climb down some cliffs its pretty fun and a really good workout.
i ate a horse the other day and i killled a dog thursday. we cooked it
and ate it whole head and all it was kinda gross the brain didnt taste
very good.
well morgan i love you and miss you stay out of trouble
love virgil

Prev Next

horses

well church was very interesting this week it was me my comp > and one > lady. i conducted and gave the only talk adn blessed the > sacrament. it > was a fairly decent talk on the articles of faith. we are > out of bread > ont he island so we had coconut for sacrament it was very > memorable. i > learned alot and we taught 4-5 lessons so far this week. we > teach alot > just noone really internalizes it. i havent heard from > steven since > christmas. thanks for the package. transfers are week after > next and > we are supposed to call the president today to see if we > will stay > here or not next transfer. no hurricanes this week but it > did rain > alot. life as always is never boring here always something > new for me > to work on monday i was climbing some coconut trees and was > sitting at > the top of one and started thinking about you guys i > started laughing > at the randomness of the situation. this mission is > something else let > me tell you but there is nothing in the world more worth > while than > trying to help heavenly fathers children make it back. i > love you > elder maybrry >

Coconuts

congrats on your tests mom you did beat me finished ;-) i nknew you could do it. no the door has been broken for a long time one of the missionaries got mad and kicked it in. those pics were from before the hurricane it really didnt do to much damage just to the crops and washed out the road a little. other than that life is good here transfers are coming up but we dont know whats going to happen yet. tell steven i said hi and that he should email me sometime. unfortunately i have a lot to report just i'm just going to save it all up so i'll have some stories after i get home to tell you. have morgan tell them that i'm doing great we teach a lot of lessons we had coconut for sacrament on sunday since we are out of bread we haven't had a boat come since we got here 10 weeks ago we we are out of everything. we ride horses quite a bit here which is kinda surprising. life is great and heavenly father takes care of his missionaries. i love you all and hope that life is good. love elder mayberry

4/12/09

well church was very interesting this week it was me my comp > and one > lady. i conducted and gave the only talk adn blessed the > sacrament. it > was a fairly decent talk on the articles of faith. we are > out of bread > ont he island so we had coconut for sacrament it was very > memorable. i > learned alot and we taught 4-5 lessons so far this week. we > teach alot > just noone really internalizes it. i havent heard from > steven since > christmas. thanks for the package. transfers are week after > next and > we are supposed to call the president today to see if we > will stay > here or not next transfer. no hurricanes this week but it > did rain > alot. life as always is never boring here always something > new for me > to work on monday i was climbing some coconut trees and was > sitting at > the top of one and started thinking about you guys i > started laughing > at the randomness of the situation. this mission is > something else let > me tell you but there is nothing in the world more worth > while than > trying to help heavenly fathers children make it back. i > love you > elder maybrry

4/7/09

no your not allowed ot quit asking for my gift of toungues until im
back in america. my comps name is me'ahala, it does get a little
monotonous there are some really challenging things here and it is a
very small island so everyone knows everything about everyone and
noone wants to change at all very hard sometimes but hey luckily i was
called to work and not to just baptize so im still fulfilling my
calling. the rock is nice and pretty but we had a little hurricane
come by and get us a little wet and make life difficult for a while.
but no worries everythjing is good and the earth still is spinning
round.love you elder mayberry

4/4/09

wow your week was about as fun as mine we had a hurricane
> come through
> it was here for three
> days and we
> had some good rain and wind luckily the eye never came
> actually on
> the island but we have a little damage done by the wind and
> rain it
> rained almost non stop tuesday through sunday and it is
> still
> sprinkling here tuesday. your training sounds pretty
> intense for a
> supervisor who isnt to far from retiring. good luck with
> the mule i
> hope that doesnt go the same way sieko did. love you dad
> elder mayberry