WOW! You guys are going to laugh...guess where I am serving...guess!
THE VILLAGE OF LONDON
Seriously! Which makes me laugh because before I got my mission call, guess where I secretly really really REALLY wanted to go? ENGLAND, LONDON to serve my heritage..and now I am serving in London...KIRITIMATI, LONDON. Hahahaha, I had a little moment when I just smiled and said, "Heavenly Father sure answers prayers."
Here I am at Kiritimati Island! And get this..it literally is a tropical Torrey. EXACTLY like torrey..a small town, everyone knows everyone...just exactly exactly like Torrey..but it's tropical! AND I HAVE A LITTLE CRUISER BIKE Dad!!! It's just the exact shade of the lagoon..this beautiful teal color...this place is incredibly, breathtakingly, quietly BEAUTIFUL. It's really really weird though and quite the change coming from Betio -- one of the dirtiest, most crowded, smelliest cities in the world..to here..wide open..no cars on the road..SUPER DIFFERENT. The first day I was here, I asked Sister Lavulavu..where are all the people?? Haha. The food here is incredible too..and ask me how many servings of ice cream I've had in the past six days? Probably twenty because they have ICE CREAM HERE. WHA WHA WHAAAAAAT!
And speaking of dessert. Get this.
Saturday was the Relief Society's birthday so there was this big party for it. I was sooo excited, I love these kinds of things..so anyway...we get there and it's going and going..and THEN the dancing starts...now dancing is a HUGE part of the culture..and so is making fun of the dancing..so I took the liberty of doing it myself...this is what happened..they were dancing and dancing..and little WHITE NEW GIRL gets up and starts imitating them dancing being really animated and goofy...and it was the best day of my life. This one old lady almost fell into the food she was laughing so hard. Cause usually there is always someone who goes and makes fun of the dancing..but never a WHITE person..and never ever a WHITE person who is NEW. So I danced maybe 45 seconds with them, going along with whatever they were doing..and when it was done sat down..but it was SO FUN. After that they had a dance where everyone danced just free syle..just back and forth kinda movements..and little did I know I started dancing next to the Mayor of Kiribati...and then I started doing the same thing..just copying him, laughing my head of, and pretty soon all the people were laughing too and watching us dance..making fun of this old guy and this white girl copying each other and dancing...after I sat down Sister Lavulavu said, "Sister Johnson, that was the mayor..." Hahahahahahahaha! But we are the best of friends now, so it's all good. We were having a blast. Anyway. That's a long story, but I'm pretty sure it was the highlight of my mission.
After the dancing there was cake -- back to the dessert -- but get this..instead of eating it, they started a FOOD FIGHT with these huge cakes! All these Relief Society ladies -- some old, some young just started a food fight with cake! AREN'T THESE PEOPLE FUN? Man alive...anyway, it was a pretty adventrous way to start the week here in Kiritimati. Hahahaha.
That's all for now,
sister johnson.
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