So it's finally 2011. I was thinking about this yesterday, and it's kind of a weird feeling entering the year that I go home. Even though it's still almost year away, it's just a weird feeling.
A lot has happened this last week. We found out that the Assistants were coming to visit on Wednesday night, and they would stay until Friday night. So Wednesday came and we went and picked them up, and went back to our apartment. One of them gave me a folded piece of paper and when I opened it, it was a flight itinerary for Elder Adams. I was pretty surprised. He flew back with them on Friday night to go serve in the mission office. I think he was pretty disappointed, but transfers are so unexpected sometimes, even in a mission like ours. So now Elder Wright is back with us and it seems like that's how it will be for this next transfer. I'm pretty sure nothing will change, but we won't find out for sure until Wednesday.
This past p-day we went to see the stone monoliths, which were actually pretty cool. They didn't have any explanation to them really, so it really makes you wonder what these Palauans were thinking, and how they did it. The tourist price to go see it was $5 and the local is $2. We all forgot our resident permits, but I walked up and said, in Palauan, "Is this where we pay?" And the guy looked at me all perplexed. "Are you Palauan? ...or American?' Again, in Palauan, "We're American, but we live here" Score, only $2. Afterward we went to see an old Japanese lighthouse that had collapsed. It probably wasn't safe, but they let us walk through it all and take some pretty cool pictures. I couldn't take as many as I would have because I left my memory card at home.
When the APs were here we didn't have any appointments. I felt pretty bad for them, but we walked all day. We met so many great people and gave us a great boost to our teaching pool. Now that we're combining areas though, our time is going to be divided pretty significantly.
Happy new year!
Love,
Elder Barlow
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