12/24/17
hey mom!!! i talked to you earlier but i've thought of some stuff to say. I love you so much. The work out here in kiribati(not the marshall islands) is great!!! The people are so nice. The other missionaries are helping me out a ton with the language. One of my teachers knew the same lady who is helping me with my kiribati right now!!! Brother miller did the same thing im doing right now. We go over and teach her a lesson and she tells us better ways we can say things or better words to describe stuff. The ladies name is Rebwa! She is super funny. yesterday we were doing our christmas songs and we heard them all outside laughing and listening to us so we went outside and sang for them. Then she like started to lead us and tell us when to stop. haha. She is so funny. The only food that i crave now is oreos and candy. So if you ever want to send me something.... candy and oreos and tim tams and gold fish. thanks a ton for all the goldfish by the way i love it. I miss you so much mom. I hope you know we all love you us kids and i hope you know how proud of you we are and how beautiful you are. I know that we can live with good ole pacerr again. And i love sharing the plan of salvation with our investigators. It has a special place in my heart and i love to share it with others.

The islands are so cool! There are tons of misquitos. The water is cold. The water is dirty. There are tons of rats and cockroaches and there are some crazy stories yet to be discovered. But 2 months have already gone by and i can't wait to see you again. They have peanut butter here which is amazing for me. They have like everything accept for like good candy and like snack foods. so also tons of fruit snacks and gushers and tons of that stuff. and more candy. I haven't used the soccer balls yet because i know they will get so trashed or someone will bubuti me for them. A bubuti is where the people ask you for something and it's culture that they give it to you. I made the mistake of saying i tangiria bwaram. which means i desire your hat. I thought i was saying i love your hat. it is way cool. then he like went to take it off and give it to me. haha. 

TUESDAY AT 4!!!!!!!!!!!! BE READY. have jared come over and help you like set it up and stuff. Be ready. tell me what account you will be using and i will add you. make sure it is the same exact lettering. Have nate or jared help you. haha. Make sure everyone's there. I want to see aubrey and sonny and my little nephews. nate and kira. the breinholts and jared and tiffany and all them peeps. I love you so much matre!

TUESDAY AT ........4!!! 

love elder wright!

(ps: pics coming later)

12/24/17

Kam na bane ni mauri!!!! Hi everyone!!! How's it goin? This week has been way fun and very eventfull!!! Lemme start at the beginning.

This week we had a few new investigators come around. On tuesday night we went kiika(ing) and we went out the ocean and waded in knee deep water and caught tiny fish in nets that are way funny. We put on our bee's and name tags. There were tons of sea snakes which are very very poisonous!!! i almost stepped on like 3! But we caught lots of fish. They all made me bite my first fish and it was way nasty. 

Then we went on exchanges with the zone leaders the next day. I got to go stay in a nice house with ac! They even had queen size beds! SPOILED!!!! haha But we did some great work that next day. We did a service project and we mucked out a well! I got down in the well and it was filthy! I filled buckets with the water and handed it up. My arms and thighs were so sore. But then we scraped it and then we emptied it again and it was clean. 

We had a baptism this past saturday!!! Nei Saili!!!! She was way interested in the gospel! She has already read the first and second nephi!! She got baptized this past saturday! Now her parents saw how determined she was that they want to lesson with us as well! They seem to be way interested! we start their lessons this week. I know they're prepared to hear the gospel. Now their daughter can go to moroni and she can be their fellowship! That family is going to be way strong in the gospel now.

We also went to a christmas special. The kids all sang and a few of our investigators went! We are so broke that we had to ride our bikes in the dark. I literally almost died on the way home. There was a giant hole and i ran my bike into it and i almost fell! Our first christmas we didn't have a tree so we got our ironing board and strung some lights around it. we got 1 picture and then every bulb exploded. So we threw those out and then we turned on our flashlights and opened our gifts and found tons of ornaments in them after the tree was ruined! But that's alright. Well ya'll it was way fun! See y'all next week!

our investigator is on the right next to us