So I was supposed to leave Christmas on Wednesday last week
but it got cancelled and rescheduled for Thursday morning. We woke up at 3:30am to go to the airport;
when we arrived, we found out it was delayed so we went and ate breakfast. After we ate we returned to the airport, got
on the plane and left. When we landed it
was the afternoon in Fiji. So we hustled onto the next plane and everyone got all of their stuff
stowed away and we were all seated when we were told that the flight would be
cancelled so we would need to get off and stay at a hotel paid for by the
airport. So we all got off the airplane and waited for like an hour for our
hotels to be scheduled and then like another hour for the shuttle to come. Then
we got to the hotel (oh and forgot to mention that our flight coincided with
the 12 new missionaries coming from the MTC, and a missionary who was a
Kiribati person who was returning home from Papua New Guinea, and a member I
haven't seen in a while from Temwaiku named Irate so they were all with us) and
stayed the night, and then got up at 2:45 in the morning to go back to the
airport. Then we got on the plane after going through security and flew to
Tarawa where we then were taken to our areas.
I am working in Eita 2nd with Elder Preisler. He will be a
great companion. I am his back-up trainer. Eita is the first place on Tarawa
that a unit was established in all of Kiribati in 1975. So the ward functions
really well. The Bishop's name is Mwea and he is awesome and I know that this
area will be great. I have seen so many people over the past few days that I
have seen and met over my last year in Kiribati.It turns out that the night I got in to Tarawa I had dinner with the RM from Papua's family because he lives in my area and we had a scheduled dinner with him, and I have seen his dad before because he came to Temwaiku once to do a training.
So basically God has a large complex plan, but it really isn't complex to Him, and we are given a non-complex basic plan to follow (the Gospel), and in doing so we make these great connections that cannot be doubted as to the hand of God working. It really was a crazy travel but way fun looking back and way awe-inspiring.
I kaotia bwa I tangiringkami ao I taku bwa banen au tai e na waekoa n roko.
Tiabo
Elder Farner