Kingdom Message In A Bottle: December 2012

Monday, December 24, 2012

Nahlap

Jared and his sister, Sierra

Jared has a special technique for snorkeling. First, he doesn't use a snorkel. The entire mask fits over his face, so he has a little air in there to use. When it's gone, he comes up for air.

Scott and Jane fishing

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Joanne and Josephine are making mashed bananas mixed with fresh shredded coconut. It is really good, especially with fish.

We lost Meshak for a little bit in the smoke!

Audrey and Maveen are cutting out the coconut meat to grill.

Sakura! Maveen and Josephine are teaching Tamara and me to play. John and I got lessons the last time we were here from a young man in the congregation. Somehow, he won every hand. We were on to you!!! This time, we had a more level playing field. Tamara wrote down the instructions, complete with photos, so hopefully, we'll remember how to play when we get home.

We had such a nice time with Samau and Desina. Samau speaks Mortlockese. He took John on a couple of his studies that speak this language. It was a lot of fun to work with some of the early Witnesses on the island.

The little girl, Maya, between Desina and me, lives at one of Samau's study's homes and the other two, Junisa and Marisa live at another of his study's homes. Maya came out on the road and we started to visit with her, then her cousins came out and we all started to discuss the Rong Koht (Listen to God) brochure. They have already had their second study. They get a good laugh out of my attempts at Ponapean.

While Desina and I were waiting in the car, this young man came out of the mangroves. Check his feet.

And that's a machete in his hand.

Pilolo

We met these ladies in service. They're uncovering their stone oven where they made Pilolo. It was made with bananas and sugar and cooked for about an hour.

The other night, Jane and her family had just come from fishing and thought the four of us would like this big guy.

Soumwahu

This was just one of the many studies and interested persons we visited with Joanne and her two girls. On the first study of the day, Joanne invited John to conduct a bit. He was using a little English and a little Ponapean to explain how wonderful Paradise would be....He was saying how good it would be....so (English) mwahu(Good in Ponapean), so mwahu.....but soumwahu in Ponapean means 'sick', so everyone got a good laugh thinking how sick it will be in Paradise.