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 we thought he was drunk But he wasn't!!! He said that his wife was born into the moromon church and her husband died and he married her. But not in the government. He used to drink and smoke until he met his wife and he knew she was mormon so he just stopped drinking and smoking. Now he wants to marry with his wife in the LDS church but he wants to be baptized first. He was so excited when we showed up at his house. He called us in and told us to sit down. He told his wife to get us water and then asked us if we wanted some and we said we were fine. But then he jumped up and got water for us and was so overly excited to see us. We had such a fun lesson with him and are really excited to be teaching him. 

Here in Betio the houses are so jam packed. In one block there can be around 200 houses and like 1400 people in just one small tiny jam packed area. I didn't get any pictures yet but they will be coming next week. 

We had a baptism this week. 3 people got baptized. Teaumaere, mata, and niutea. They are really cool people and I'm glad i was able to be at their baptism. I'm super excited for the amazing work that we have ahead of us in this area. I tangiringkami!!!! Tiabo moa!!