"Listen Joel, the people of the church have chosen me as the pastor and I am doing this work. I am telling you that I am now the pastor so that [if] you see that the time of the last days has come near or that people are talking about the last days then you must quickly send me a letter and I can tell my church."
I sent him some clothes and some aspirin, and I wrote that no, no one I knew was talking about the last days and that I had not seen any signs. I think I now know enough about our relationship to assume that he was glad for this information, and that he was pleased that I could be trusted to keep a lookout for him at the other end of the world from last New Guinea.

(Joel Robbins ""When Do You Think the World will End?": Globalization, Apocalypticism, and the Moral Perils of fieldwork in "Last New Guinea"")