Week 66: Bagyo in Tiwi Branch (Email to Missionaries Serving in my Zone)

 Hello everyone:)

     I'm so happy to write to you all to share some awesome experiences I had during the past couple months and the last two weeks of typhoon.  It has been a long time I never write to you all.  I am so sorry and hopefully you hindi po kayo nakakalit sakin po.  Sa una po, Nung bagyou ay so brang natakot po ako kasi alam ko po I have 2 choices if I will die or not but so brang nagpapasalamat po ako dahil ay hindi ako mamatay ahahaha!!  So brang nakakatakot peru ayoslang po any buhay ng missionary po.  Alam mo ba sa loob ang apartment po namin ay basa lahat at laging kami malinis mopping, brooming and etc.  Yung yero po any apartment po namin ay nawala pp sya kaya nga kapag umulan laging nabasa pery ayoslang po kasi ngayon po ay so brang magaling na po ako na maglinis kahit anoman yung mga bagay nakita po ako sa apartment namin laging ako maglinis lahat hehehe wala bang!! bang!!  Yung work here syempre patuloy din po kami namakapagkilala lahat yung mga members.  sabi ko any aking kasama po ako "Parang biyaya ng bagyo sami kasi ngayon lang ponamakapagkilala yung mga tao dito sa tiwi branch.Bakit laging kaming nagdeliver ng relief, repair yung house nila, malinis lahat yung madumi, other walang yero, walls, only floor left ang kawawa naman sila so brang malungkot po ako dahil nararasan po aki dito at nararamdaman yun feeling nila tabi.  Sa p-day ngayon laging kami naglaba sa kamay walang kuryente, walang ilaw, pag gabi na laging kami nag hide and seek minsane tapos mag burning salabas yung basura po at mahanap ng gagamba sa buno tapos ng study scripture using candles memorizing 42 point lessons and verses related sa Book of Mormon and Bible po.  So brang masaya po kami kasi trisome kami dito meron akong kasama peru nasa City po sa kasi malapit umuuwi peru walang internet dito nung nakaran po kaya nga kinuha nila yung APs para maghandamona sya travel plan Zone leader po sya.  Gusto ko po ishare sinyo yung work naito any gawain ny Diyos at ang akalat ni Mormon ang salita ng Diyos I know He talks to us and answers us in His words in the Book of Mormon because I have a testimony of it.  Ang simbahan ni Jesucristo ay totoong simbahan at President Russell M Nelson is God's chosen prophet and he will lead us sa panahon naito.  Mahal kamo saindo gabos at mag iingat po kayo parati always look for the good things and serve your companion and be obedient always doing the right thing at the right time in right place.  I am so proud of you all and hopefully you are enjoying serving the children of God.  

Elder Bateiti

The typhoon washed everything out.  Our apartment roof of the laundry room is gone.  Some other houses wash out and only the floor is left.  I am so sad seeing people here this way.  If this typhoon comes to Kiribati, I don't know if everyone would survive it.  We have been mopping after the typhoon was gone.  It's really sad.  This is how it looks after the storm comes.  The trees are destroyed with no leaves left and some of the branches are collapsed.  That is a school building where some people are evacuated to.  Right now we have been washing our laundry with our hands but it's all good.  I have been used to it. Haha.  And I already know how to fetch water carrying water jugs to our apartment for a shower hahaha.  I'm just trying to focus on the work.  I just tell myself to forget myself.  



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