definitely seen Heavenly Father's hand

So, this week has been pretty cool. So, we've definitely seen Heavenly
Father's hand in our lives recently. We had a few things go on this
week. We were trying to baptize K this Saturday, cause that's
what we told him his date was. Well, Saturday rolls around, turns out
his marriage still wasn't done... because the minister of justice or
something wasn't at the court to sign their paper haha. Well, we get
the word saturday morning. Change of plans! We head to Bwairiki, maybe
1 hour west by bus, with the plan that we'll track down the ministers
house and ask him if he could sign it then and then we'd pay him over
time(which is actually totally a culturally acceptable thing to do in
kiribati). Randomly zone leaders are in our area and offer to take us
there. So we go to bwairiki, we meet this lady in a store who tells us
where most of the workers live. We go to the place, first house, we
talk with a guy a bit, he kind of knows maybe how we can find him,
another neighbor walks in, and they two direct us to the ministers
house. We show up to his house, no one answers for a while, finally we
get an answer: "he's partying, come back later. Actually he has a
party tonight as well, come back monday". A car rolls up, it's him! As
we go to talk to him, we see his wife: she politely motions: "he's
drunk right now", we figure he was still able to drive, so we talk to
him a little bit any way. We talk with him a little bit we explain our
situation with him a little bit, ask if he'd be willing to sign it
(the court was like a five minute walk from his house) he seemed
really nice at first, but then randomly becomes angry and tells us he
won't. Then he goes into his house and goes to sleep. So, yeah we
tried a few other things after, see if any one else could sign the
paper or whatever. Not much could be done. Any way, we went to get
lunch, and we see this guy who's maybe touring or something in
kiribati, "Hey!" we say, we say hi to a guy from kiribati who seemed
to be guiding him around, he's way nice, shakes our hands. we offer
our hand to the other guy. "no thank" he says, "I don't shake my hand
with snakes". We talk with him a little bit, tried to resolve any
misconceptions he'd had about the LDS church, he didn't really seem to
want to listen though. Any way, we left bwairiki went on with our day.
Even though we weren't able to get the marriage done, I still felt
we'd had a really good day, we tried hard. Thinking back about it, had
we got the paper done, there was still a lot of stuff that we'd have
had to do. I'm not sure if we'd have enough time to finish it all
before the baptism would've started. So yeah, and it's not too big a
problem if he'd have to wait a week, everyone was happy and okay with
it. So yeah, it was probably Heavenly Father's plan that they wait.
There are actually a lot of pros to it being next week!
Any way, one more story. We meet this guy on the street, I can't
remember if I told you guys the first part of the story, but he told
us to visit him, he was gonna teach us "the ancient/old language". Any
way, we search around for him all this morning, finally find his
house, someone knows where he lives. We walk to the oceans edge, about
40 feet out there's another tiny little area of land, only big enough
for about one little house, that's his house. We weren't able to visit
him because the ocean was surrounding it. Apparently it has to be low
tide to visit him. I felt like I was in a zelda game or something.
We're gonna go back in a few hours when it's low tide so this guy can
teach us these ancient words. haha.
Well, thanks again for the prayers, they're way apprecitated!!!!!!
Love you guys all!!!! - Elder Seffker