First off, Dad, here are the pictures you wanted. If you look closely at the one of our apartment, you can see the awful guard dogs that are always tied up at the top of the stairs. They bark and bark and bark all day, and they smell. I haven't been bit yet - at least not by them; maybe by their fleas.
In the picture of the church building, the right building is the chapel - which is really just an open space that we set up chairs in. The left building has the classrooms.
Today starts a new transfer, but we don't find out about transfers until Wednesdays now. That makes things hard for Palau since we would get the call Wednesday night, and the flight leaves just a few hours later. What will probably end up happening is we will either get the call on Tuesday night, or they'll give us a later flight. We'll see. We don't think anyone is leaving island this transfer, so it's not really an issue this time.
We got both the Conference issue and the June issues of the Liahona this last week too. I don't know if you noticed, but every single picture of a computer in the June Liahona is an Apple computer. It really shook my testimony, but then I realized that everything is okay. Just like typos in the Book of Mormon, using an Apple computer can be attributed to the mistakes and follies of men - the Church is still true though. So any of you who had the same worries as I did - let there be peace unto your souls.
Since Elder Lyman was off gallavanting at Zone Leader Council in Guam, his trainee, Elder Bano was with us for a few days. He's Marshallese and really doesn't talk much. Anyway, we went up to see Tobi (the man who was just baptized), and we helped him prepare to bless the Sacrament. He was so nervous because he thought it had to be memorized and everything. Well, he did it yesterday, and only had to say it once. Impressive for a 60+ year old man that has only been baptized for 2 weeks or so.
Yesterday was Seminary graduation here too. There were only 3 consistent students, and none were graduating yet, but a lot of the kids who had come throughout the year came to the graduation. I don't know what it is about seminary and mutual, but it's a great chance for youth to be missionaries. I really slacked in that aspect.
We took the branch member list to a less active guy that we meet with and we asked him to describe where some of them lived (we previously selected all the members on Meyuns island that we didn't know, and counted 43 households - way more than we thought). He was able to tell us where they lived, or if they moved, and where they moved to, or if they were in the army. He then offered to go with us to talk to each of them. It was pretty cool. Many of them were the only member in their family, and just emphasized to us the importance of teaching and completing families. It's hard to stay strong on your own.
This week could be an exciting one. Especially if I get transferred (which I won't), I could be emailing you from somewhere else next week.
Love,
Elder Barlow
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