This week was super fun! We have been going down into our area and tracting and tryng to get referals and we found one person who we are going to lesson with. her name is Ioana.

The members here are camping out in the mwaneaba(stick building with no walls and pandanus leaves for the roofing) next to our house until they finish building our buia(raised platform with no walls and pandanus roofing. They have been working for about a month now and it's almost finished. we have been doing a lot of help with them. We have been going to the ocean side (not lagoon side) and shoveling rocks for the floor and it looks really good.  

Elder tiakia just left today back to tarawa and leaves for home on june 1st. So that's really soon. My companion elder lomaloma is getting transfered on the 31st of may so i will be comping with another elder from my intake!! Elder Brinkworth. He is the tall one in the pics from the mtc. So elder hoggan is getting another white guy for his companion, elder breckenridge so 4 white guys working out here now starting on the 31st. Hoggan's companion comes on the 17th so we will be working together until then. us 3 working together. Then when brinkworth get's here 3 of us will have gotten to kiribati at the same time!!!! haha super fun. 

We ate turtle this week a couple of times. It is really good. it is like steak and pig meat. somewhere in the middle. But they make it with moimoto(green coconut) juice and soy sauce and sugar and it is so freaking good. The member Matite (meh-se-te) buys or finds turtles a lot. So we get to help him cook them and...other really sad sad stuff to watch if you know what i mean. but cool stuff to watch as well. We kill them. HAHA Sorry if any of you are animal rights people but it's legal here. 

That's about it for this week. love you guys and ill talk to you all next week!!