12/17/17

Hey matre! I'm doing much better. The food isn't disagreeing with me as much. I love it here. It is so beautiful and the people are so nice. the language is coming along faster. Our apartment is super dirty. But i only have one companion. Cute! I hope you took pitcures of that putting the ornaments on the tree. I want to see some. I have many pictures of me and elder jackson. I also got to split with elder jubeck! He looks exactly like my friend sam hess. that has been a good like comfort. He reminds me so much of him. Take good care of riley. I miss that dog so much. We have taught more lessons and we had another baptism this week! A woman got baptized and hopefully her husband is next week. But we'll have to see. He has some issues witht the word of wisdom so we'll see how that goes. I'll let you know some other stuff that happened this week.

Hey Elder!!!

1/6/18

How is my favorite Elder doing????  Every time I pull up my computer I explode with pure joy because I have the pic of all of you arriving at the airport and how happy everyone looks.   Work is stressful.  I decided to go down to the re-hab unit where it will not be as fast pace and stressful.  I can also do school work.

So can you be more detailed in your letters.  What kind of food are you eating and more about what the people are like and more about your investigators.  That would be great.  Please write in your journal honey you will be so happy if you do.

Meghann Ranierri is moving in next Saturday into Kira's old room.  It will be good to have the house full when you are gone because I miss you so much.

Be close to the Lord honey and he will bless you.  Remember he is always there for you and listening to you.  I have always known that you are a special spirit sent to me for a reason.  I love you and I am so grateful for the young man that you have become.

Riley drives you crazy when you let him out now.  He has to go over to the far fence by the road sniff a million times then go to the fence and sniff a million times then go over to the other side and sniff a million times!!!! I hate those 2 dogs behind us.  Riley misses you.

We are always thinking of you and praying for you.

Love mother.

1/7/18

to me

This week was really fun. We had a real bootaki! Where people go and party all day. We went and made a dance and danced for them and they cracked up. They had rows and rows of food. They had a mariage. I loved it. they had kiribati cultural dances and i videoed every single one. I loved it i thought it was so cool. last week we went to an asmakoro called abararang. I got a little sunburned.... nothing too bad. haha i also had to cut my own hair so that was good. At the bootaki the people brought noodles made from these really nasty sauce packets. They had this mini bananas and i had like 10. They had chicken with like this weird sauce and rice and they had pizza that was just like cornbread with sausage. It was actually way good. Awww I miss riley so much. I love that dog to death. Omg ma you are a freaking boarding house now. goolllllyyy HAHA i love riley tell kira i love her. I love you matre

elder koroboki

1/14/18

Elder Wright (Koroboki)  So cute!!!

I was looking through some old pictures and you were so cute!!  It made me miss you even more.  I hope all is going well with you there.  I saw some of the dance on sister Hansens facebook page.  It looked so cool.  I can't wait for you to do a dance for us when you get home.  Better yet take one with that expensive go pro I bought for you to record all of these memories.  What have you been doing on your P-day's?  Have you been able to pull out  a soccer ball yet?  Do it when you feel inspired to because you only have two to last for the whole 2 years.  Sometimes I am jealous of dad being able to be with you and watch all of your experiences over there.  I wish I could be a little fly and follow you around.  How awesome would that be.  

Your haircut actually looks pretty good!!  I am sure after eating 10 of those bananas you had some bathroom issues.  Had you had a chance to climb a coconut tree?  Remember to record it.  Also did you take your picture with your name tag in the sand yet?  Well work will go better now that I am starting down in re-hab next week.  At least it won't be as stressful down there.  Anja applied to classic skating and got the job and I hope she doesn't take it because it only pays $8.25 an hour.  I guess she is up to $9.75 an hour now.  She is doing good.  She still misses school and seminary but I tell you to stop it because she is not going to graduate.  That girl!!

Please tell me about any spiritual experience you have had.  I need some right now in my life.

Did I tell you I passed the NCLEX test.  The one I have to pass for the state to get my RN licence.  I did it in the 75 questions so that was good.  If you don't do good you can get up to 265 questions.  I am so glad that didn't happen to me.  The Lord truly blessed me with that.  Spencer and Hodge gave me a blessing the night before and I do believe that helped me to be calm and not nervous.  I am so glad that after 4 years I am finally done with that.

I love you honey and I hope you have a fabulous week.  I am always praying for your success and that the Lord will guide you to the people who are ready to hear the gospel message.  President Nelson is going to do a special broadcast on Tuesday at 10:00 am.  He is going to be our next prophet.  Hopefully you be able to watch it even i f it is recorded.  

I love you Elder Koroboki  Love your sweet loving adorable fantastic best mom RN nurse ever!!!!

1/14/18

How's life back home? I miss you. I hope you are doing good. That's so exciting that you passed your test!!! I am so proud of you. You have been working so hard! No i have'nt climbed a coconut tree because it's not allowed but if i go ibuki i will be able to. because i will need some way to eat. Haha ya the bananas are so good. and suprisingly no no issues from the bananas. Wow that test sounds like it was way hard. Wow that is so cool! anja got a job there?! That's way cool! Wow sounds like she is doing way good. Well i'm officially not the youngest in the mission now. The next intake just got here and they are way funny. They are all way sick. I didn't get half as sick as they did. But the work here is so fun. The lord has been helping me out a ton. The language is coming along soooo good! I know the lord has blessed me in that aspect. Because i can have conversations with most people. just not the people who slur their words together. 

This week i have been asking the lord to bless me with more investigators. it has been hard because the mission president said we need to keep our numbers high which are like double mine. But i have prayed and prayed and he has blessed me with 4 more investigators. I'm so happy and we should have another baptisim this month. But numbers don't matter. it's great to have goals but people have agency and if we dont reach our goals because we don't get enough baptisms or we don't have enough investigators then that is fine. But this week has been super fun. I got a new companion and his name is elder sagapolu. He is a totally nice guy but he repeats what he says alot. which is fine i love him to death. 

another trial i ve had was another companion i had for about 5 days. he was the most negative most annoying complaining correcting rude not nice person i've ever met. He was terrible. I won't say his name. But he was only my companion for about 5 days. If i had to be with him for a whole transfer i don't know what i would do. I can't even say. But i prayed for patience and every time we wanted to do something he would just say no lets just go to moroni. For p day we wanted to go to one place and he just said no lets just go to moroni. The lord really helped me with patience because i didn't lose it with him. I have thanked them for giving me patience. 

I miss you so much and hope you are doing well! I love you and i know dad loves you as well.

elder koroboki

1/20/18

Hello ELDER!!!!  How are you honey!!!  I LOVE YOU!!!!  I switched jobs.  I work in re-hab now.  It is going to be way better I can tell.  Today we went tubing at Soldier Hallow.  It was fun.  They have a new ramp now.  They do not have the thing you attach your tube to and it pulls you up.  They now have a ramp like an escalator that brings you up and you cannot sit down on it or walk up the ramp.  No sure if I like that.  I think I liked the old way better.  Then we went to Mama Chus after and pretended you were with us.  We even had a chair their in your honor.  Sonny got the number 14 in honor of dad.  The funny thing is that it has been like 50 degrees here and yesterday it started snowing like crazy!!  We had a lot of fresh wonderful snow.  

Some of these school assignments I have to do are pretty tuff.  They are a lot of research and numbers and comparisons.  I hope I can keep up.  

I have been praying a lot for your success as a missionary and how grateful I am that you are serving our Heavenly Father.  I really think that your serving a loving your mission and doing everything that you can to serve the Lord is really helping me in my school work so thank you.  I feel so blessed by your service.  I love you so much for that.

Anja is funny.  She actually enjoys Spencer and Hodge living here with us.  We feel safer with you gone and they are fun to have around.  Please tell us some stories in DETAIL remember we are not their experiencing like you so pretend when you tell us that you have to describe it to us PLEASE.

With all my LOVE  Mother 

1/21/18

Sad!!!!! I miss that place. Too bad they got rid of the escelator thing. Cute!!! I miss Mama chus!!! Wow that snow sounds real nice. We are having a ton of fun out here. My comp is sick so i'm doing splits with the new elders. They are way fun. But I love you so much. I told you that story of that kid we gave a blessing to. The food here is alright. We have a thing called the bun fund. Which is where we all get buns a different day with nutella. They actually ahve it here. But they are my favorite food now. I love the buns. I love the gospel too. I love sharing it with others. The people here are so humble and prepared for the work. I love doing the work. 

I love you so much. Wow is rehab easier or harder? Do you work in the nights still? I thought you were all done with school? Anyways i love you and miss you. I hope you all are doing well.

elder koroboki