mwakerukeru

This week was a quick one. We had another bootaki (party) for Teachers' day and that was a pretty cool experience. They do a dance every time where they basically have one person stand up and dance until they pass the dance on to the next person who stands up and passes it and so on. So of course, the third person to get asked to dance was myself so I got up and everyone thought it was hilarious. If a foreigner tries anything in the culture it usually makes people laugh.  

 

bootaki

We have a few solid investigators but there always is a problem it seems that comes up when trying to keep a commitment. But then again, its not just the investigators that have a hard time keeping commitments but also myself and members of the church as a whole. Sometimes we focus on the mote in the other's eye and forget the beam or don't even notice it in our own eye. Or in Elder Holland's talk, we accept the release of our 10000 talent debt but don't forgive others their 10 pence debt. And so on.

We are told to lose ourselves in the service of others, which also includes losing our personal opinions on how people should act or personal desires on how we want things to go. We are supposed to serve, not command.

D&C 6:36:  "Look unto me in every thought, doubt not, fear not"

We never know what might happen as we continue to work diligently in our respective callings, things can change very quickly in peoples lives, although the build-up to that change can seem very slow.

Word for the week: mwakerukeru (mah kiddu kiddu):  Means crunchy.

There is a sister in our ward who feeds us a lot and this one time she made a peanut brittle thing. It was really good and I was calling it cake and the sister, named Totite, said that it wasn't cake but " the crunchy mena" (mena just means "thing"). The crunchy thing. It was pretty funny because she was speaking half English half Kiribati. 

Anyway keep on moving forward.

Miss you all 

Tiabo

Elder Farner