bino

So last Saturday was pretty cool as we were able to do a traditional Kiribati dance called the "bino" which is a sitting dance. I messed up a bit but it was still fun. We did it for a farewell party for our Senior Couple on Christmas Island, the Pilkingtons. They are from Australia and they have been serving for almost 2 years here. They are real warriors for sticking it out here.

On Sunday we had a fireside which was about Fathers and also a farewell for the Pilkingtons. It was good. We may have 2 people who will get baptized on Saturday. One of them is 17 and his name is Tiimi. The other is named Riitang and he is 11. Pray for them that they will remember to read and pray and that they will focus during the lessons....

Also hit my year mark...still a lot more growth to go...

tiabo

Elder Farner

Tabwakea

I made it safely to Christmas Island. I am working in Tabwakea, not Banana, and am working with Elder Anani.

Another cool story from my travel: at night I was waiting at the gate and a American Samoan man came up to me and asked me my name and then told me that he was Bishop L. He is a bishop in Alaska who was traveling back home from American Samoa. I got to talk to him for a while.  Really cool random experience. He is a fairly recent convert who used to smoke like packs a day and then stopped. Apparently he worked as a police man when Gordon B Hinckley came to A. Samoa and he shook his hand.  Pretty cool.

Anyway the new area is good, at first I wanted to go back to the main and but now it's getting a little better. You know they say it takes 6 weeks to get accustomed to a place so I will give it time.🙂

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