Hello,
Happy Birthday Emily!! Today is
your birthday in Kiribati and tomorrow in America. But I just wanted to let you
know that I am very glad you are my sister. I know sometimes we don't get
along, but I love you and I am glad you have always been there for me. Happy
Birthday! :) Hopefully I come home to
some nieces and nephews!!
This past week has gone well, but
we have had a lot of things going on.
Remember that Banana was getting a new church? Well we went to a huge party for the opening
of the place for church in Banana!! It was great but ended up taking up all
day, then we had district meetings there and then we got stuck in Banana
another day after district meetings because of car troubles. Dad, I kind of
wished you were here to help with our car because it is quite broken at the
moment.
So, this week is transfer week
and this is what I have heard so far.
The plan is that Elder Hungai, Eiroa, Nei, Kanau and I will be leaving
this Wednesday to go to Fiji. We will see if the plane actually comes, but if
it does that is the plan. Then Elder
Hungai and I will head to Tarawa and from then on… I have no idea what will
happen for sure. I was emailing papy Elder Whitehead (my trainer) last week and
he made it sound like I would be heading out with a Kiribati Elder to go to the
outer island of Abaiang. Not sure if that is going to happen though. I am up
for whatever. I am fairly happy so whatever happens will be good.
The hurricane didn't hit us at
all. I heard it may hit Fiji again though and so depending on when I get there
that should be fun. Yeah it will be sweet to hear about transfers. Not sure
what is even going on, but we will find out some time hopefully.
As far as my address just leave
it as the Tarawa one. I probably won't be working in that area but that is just
the best address for most things.
You asked what I will miss most
about Kiritimati. Well, probably just
the people. A have a ton of people here that I have gotten to know very well.
And by the way this mission is set up and by how it is; I will probably never
see any of these people for the rest of my life.
So.. Yeah that stinks. But you
know, there are always more people in random other parts of Kiribati. I will
also definitely miss the food at the stores here. They all get stuff from JMB and JMB stuff is
from America. So... the little American food I have here will be greatly
missed.
When I get to Tarawa it will be
quite sweet though seeing all the random crap I left in Tarawa and to see what
is in those packages.
One thing that is different here
is that my body doesn't heal super fast like it did at home, but it isn't hurt
much so I am not worried. Little by little my body will just get more used to
things here and I should be fine.
That’s awesome that Sarah went to
Julius Caesar. I hope people get recordings of all these things people do
because I would like to see them.
You asked if I was able to see or
hear the world wide missionary conference.
Well, it happened when our mission president was here. I remember him
saying stuff about it, but none of us actually got to see it. Internet here
works, but not in any way good enough really to get things like that.
You also asked if you (our
family) could pray for our investigators by name. You could just pray for what you feel like
praying for as far as investigators.
Just the general prayer will always help. Work here is going well. There
are some people getting pretty close to baptism so that is pretty sweet. We are
just trying to help them little by little gain their testimonies and repent and
such.
Well, that is all from me. Thanks for everything.
Elder Dinsdale
New Church in Banana
