Dear Mom,
I finally received your christmas letter and it was awesome. I really liked the picture too.
I am doing very good. No transfers for me. I am still here in Yigo with Elder Tadd and I love it! The Bishop told me about you and Elder Tadd's sister having a conversation on the Yigo Ward Facebook page and he thought that was pretty funny!
Our week was good, we saw alot of miracles happen here in Guam. We met this American Italian family on the top of the hill in our area. They seem pretty interested (who would have thought in Guam of all places, an Italian?)! Also, we had many of our investigators come to church this week! It has been neat to see some miracles take place as we are trying to talk to everyone!
When I first got here I loved the Island culture but now I don't like it as much. I have seen alot of men treat their girlfriends and wives really bad, and it makes me sad and angry. The women just cook food and take care of kids and lot of them don't have high school diplomas or even read, its quite unfortunate! I met this girl named 'Wanu' which means 8 in chuukese like the number it was pretty weird, that is literally her name....8!
The work is good and I am still really happy to be here! The Youth Program here is good there are 100 or more youth in the stake; about 60 in Guam and 40 in Saipan thats really good for Saipan Ward). They are still working out kinks in their program, it is different than in the west stake. They don't even use For the Strength of Youth pamphlets. We have been giving some to all the youth we teach. The youth here are so strong, it's amazing! In Stake Conference the stake President said that they have 2 young men out on missions, 2 with mission calls and 3 with mission papers submitted! One boy in Saipan got his call to Korea (the Bishops son, Micheal Esplin) and so many youth want to go on missions! President Clark (Stake President) says his goal is to have 12 youth on missions at the same time! The Counselor in the Stake Presidency said they are pushing for a temple in Guam. Elder Aoyagi of the seventy was at Stake Conference and I was able to shake his hand. He said that now we have a stake here (it was formed last december) we need to work on a Temple. That would be awesome!!! We only need 3 stakes and there's one in Majuro, Marshall Islands and Elder Perry and President Mecham said Saipan could become a stake soon! And also Lianna might like this; Pohnphei has 1700 members and 8 branches and 6 chapels. Chuuk has 1300, Yap has 300-500, Kosrae has 300, Palau has 300 but only 50 are active. President Mecham said they are almost a stake in Pohnphei but they need more priesthood and reactivation. There are some strong branches and he wants all of the Federated States of Micronesia to become the FSM Stake and Saipan to become one. That is his dream, and Palau to become part of Guam so we could do it! Thats why we are here on our missions..... to get a temple in this part of the world! President Mecham said he has a temple site all picked out! I am so excited the Church is getting stronger here in Micronesia! We could get a Temple, maybe the Barrigada Guam Temple! We taught a family and they could not believe that if they are 12 or over they could go to the temple!!
That's exciting about Peter and Parker putting their mission papers in!
I gotta go but I love you,
Love Elder Kearl
Later I learned that they do have 12 youth out on missions from Guam and 48 form the whole mission, Alot of those 12 are from Saipan. - dan
Letter to Scott:
Hey Scott
Hey, how are you? Thanks for writing me. You saw Eric? Thats so cool, how is he? I miss him too! You bought an Xbox! I love you, gotta go, bye, Elder Kearl
Explanation of pictures: 1. Elder Welch, he is going to Sydney Australia for his mission, he is from Saipan and I know his family. 2. We participated in an activity with the Dededo Ward, where we went with the YSA to teach their friends it was fun!! 3. A caribou running loose (kinda like a cow)! 4. I bought a chuukese bible.
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