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THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS                       MARSHALL ISLANDS/KIRIBATI MISSION                                                                                                      P.O. Box 400                                                                               Bikenibeu, Tarawa                                                                              Republic of Kiribati 24 September 2018 Dear Sister Wright, I am pleased to inform you that your son, Elder Wright, has been assigned to serve as a District Leader and a Trainer in the Marshall Islands/Kiribati Mission. His obedience, commitment, service and ability to teach and lead by the Spirit have been key factors in making this assignment. As a District Leader and Trainer, your son will be responsible for providing leadership support, encouragement, teaching and importantly, leading by example.  We are grateful for your son's wonderful service and
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Sept 23, 2018 This transfer was way cool. I am training!! I have a new companion named Elder Geertsen. He is a way cool guy. He did show singing back home in Logan Utah! Right now we have about 15 people in our district and they have chosen me to be district leader. It's a great responsibility because it is the biggest district that has ever been there. Now I'm training an elder . I remember when i used to be in his shoes. I used to try so hard and I'm going to do my best to help him. I can't send any pictures because these computers don't take them. I'm so excited for this opportunity to be able to serve the other elders and sisters in my district. We are gonna have so much fun. It's going to be crazy to keep track of them.  I'm working in Betio right now. This area is so coo. The members are so cool. They just had a karaurae for elder guy. A party to depart. It was super fun and the food was so good. The kiribati people make some m
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Sept 16, 2018 Mauri Ngkami!!! Sorry it has been a while! But there's not much to say! We had a bootaki for the ward. They did the cultural dancing called the kaimatoa. They all crowded around that board and smacked it and the kids of one group and the adults of another group danced for us. They all sang and it was hype! It was a super fun bootaki. These past weeks have been fun. My companion is super fun and we have so much fun doing the work. After this bootaki we had we were walking home and there was a drunk lady who was about my age and she came up to me and grabbed me by the chest and said" Tell me" in English and I replied"tell you what?!" (in Kiribati) and she was so surprised I thought she was going to kiss me. My comp Elder guy said he thought she was going to too. But a homie came running full speed towards us and pulled her off of me and said have a good night. It was so funny. Right now we have a few people ready for baptism but w
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Aug 19, 2018 Mauri!! This week was super fun. I'm working with my new companion Elder Guy and people keep telling us we're twins. We have so much fun working together and the area is super fun and interesting. So everyone here just laughs when they see us. They think we're like angels or something. Like some diamonds walking down the street. So when drunk people see us they just laugh and joke and say hi. They try to talk to us in their drunk kiribati and we just tell them we're heading home. They shake our hands and are falling over in the street. It's so fun everyone when you walk past just starts laughing and you know they're talking about you. So you just say "Why are you laughing?!" They say something about you or something and it's super fun.  There are people here who are so prepared for the gospel. We found the most golden investigator yesterday on Sunday. He said to us that he wanted to have lessons with us. At first w
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Aug 12, 2018 I'm now working in Betio with Elder Guy. It is going to be super fun. I already have some stories to tell. The other day we were going to a lesson with an old lady. She told us that we should help the people who don't have jesus. So she gave us a referral for An old man who was drunk and she told us to go over to him. We went over and he wanted to have like a sermon like his catholic father does. He started talking about how he used to live in Brazil and he used to do things. He was hammered and i think he had like one tooth. It was super fun to get to know him but it was the weirdest lesson i've ever had in my mission. I've only been here 2 days!! We'll see what stories i have next week.  These are some pictures of the members out in Tabiteuea. They are super nice and they love missionaries. They were super great and love the Lord. They are so humble. They live on that buia I'm sitting on with them. I'm giong to miss them so
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Aug 7, 2018 Mauri!! Hi everyone i just got the news that i'm being moved from Tabiteuea to Betio(bayso) I'm really excited and my time with elder brinkworth is up. I'm so happy to havebeen able to work with him out htere. I had so much fun and worked hard. I'm really excited to be able to work with elder guy. Betio is the place where everyone lives on tarawa. It is so jam packed. So there are people who have never met elders before or talked to them. Also it is right where every ship comes and unloads it's cargo. I will be in Betio 1. I am really happy to be able to serve here. I just want to say how much i love being a missionary. I love serving the people here and I love meeting new people. I can't wait to see what the future holds for me in my new area and I hope to be able to find some really cool new people. I love you all. Funny story, We got fishing hats made from the pandanus tree as gifts and me and elder breckenridge went aroun
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June 17, 2018 It is so much fun serving a mission here in kiribati. I am learning so much about the culture. It is so fun sleeping on a buia everyday. I get to ride around on the whole island and visit all of the old people. I saw one who was so old he couldn't come to church so we did church for him. He is now my favorite old man here on tab north. haha he is super nice and just gets the biggest smile. We have had some good memories here. There are members here that we just ask for moimoto's from because he has so much land. He got mad at us for not making him give us moimotos. We helped him with his garden. He has such a nice garden. He grows onions and peppers and stuff. We have found 5 new investigators in the past 2 weeks and 2 of them are on date for july 7th!! We are excited for them. We went to play soccer in the furthest south town and it was super fun. But it was really hard to play on the dirt. We are going to go with an old man to look for conch shell
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