Elder Hilliard called to serve for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Week 30

I just had to share this beautiful photo of  Elder Hilliard
Ngaia, e biri nako te tai.

Man, time sure does fly here.  Things are good here the small world of Butaritari.  The work is going well, and so far, I haven't had any problems.  Unfortunately, Elder Hungai got pink eye this past week.  But, he is fine now.  It really is incredible how fast pink eye spread here in Kiribati.  It started in Betio (on Tarawa the main island) moved to my old area Temwaiku in a day, and now, it is starting to go around here.  Somehow, I have been blessed not to get it.  Anyway, things are great here.  We have plenty of investigators and they are all doing really well.  My favorite Bwareke, is hilarious.  He is a little crazy but he is a lot of fun.  We also like to joke about his name, because it is very similar to bareke, which means dirty.  He really is a character.  Also, this week, we had a huge crab fall into our well.  And then it drowned.  So our shower water was nasty for a few days.  But, we finally got it out and cleaned up the well, good as new.  No problems now.  Church here is a little different.  We are very small, no branch president yet, just a unit leader, and we only have about 30 people at church each Sunday.  It is also almost completely ran by us elders.  It is fun though.  This week I taught the Youth/YSA class.  It was good, except that there was a huge dead fish on the beach.  It made it very difficult for us all to stay in the area.  but we got through.  I think that is all for this week.  Love you all, hope you have a good week.

Love

Elder Hilliard

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