Mission Tour

Mauri kain te auti! Ti na kawaringkami!

Haha. I think I've said that like ten thousand times here...

This past week has been great! I'm finally feeling better...meaning, I

no longer have a 104 fever and do not feel like I swallowed broken

glass. It was so weird; my throat hurt so badly I couldn't talk,

exercise, breath too hard, or eat (that's the big one right there) for

about 4 days. What kind of crazy sickness does that....anyways, I'm

feeling better now!! Tylenol and throat drops are tender mercies from

above...

The craziness of the mission tour and the transfer has slowed down

now, so we finally had some time to consistently visit our

investigators this week. I'm still pretty new to the area so I'm still

working on getting to know everyone. There are so many people here in

Tarawa compared to Nonouti. The houses are so close together. One the

bright side, it makes it really easy to get fellowshippers for our

investigators because everyone has like ten immediate neighbors that

we can go to. Eita first ward (my current area) was the first ward

ever created in Kiribati, so it's pretty well established. We have

church at Moroni High School. There are SOOOO many members here. I

never really appreciated having solid member families in our ward

until coming off of Nonouti and working here in Eita. I'm just so

happy at church to see all these faithful families!

Despite not having a ton of proselyting time these past few weeks, one

of our investigators passed their baptismal interview this week! It

was the family that we taught with Elder Nattress when we went out and

worked with him for an afternoon. Of course she's getting baptised -

how could you not after getting a lesson from a general authority? Her

less-active husband also came to church with her for the first time

this past week! Whoo! Progress!!!

Other than that, it was a pretty standard week. Lessons. Errands.

Trying to speak Kiribati. Being a missionary is the best.

Love,

Elder Barker