Greetings From Inside a Shipping Container!

Dear Mom, Dad, Taylor and Cami,

Hi! So good to get a chance to email you all this week. We were scared
we wouldn't have email or power again, but we were blessed to find
some random internet cafe! It's about the sketchiest location you
could ever imagine: INSIDE of a shipping container down at the port
customs authority! It's also one computer hooked up to like 12
monitors, so it's very slow. BUT we're very grateful to have found it.
We're also grateful it's one of the refrigerated shipping containers,
so there's air conditioning :)

This week was awesome. We had lots of random busyness to take care of,
so we only really worked Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  
Wednesday we had transfers, and Sunday we had 8 baptismal interviews 
to take care of for the district.

Transfers! Elder Fa'oliu and Sister Banimone both went back to Tarawa.
We were excited for them, especially Elder Fa'oliu, because he'll get
to work with Elder Paora on Tarawa. The new missionaries who came in
are Elder Toanna and Sister 'Alafoki. Toanna is from Kiribati, and he
will be working with Elder Davis. He also doesn't speak a lick of
English, so Elder Davis has drastically improved his Kiribati in just
the 5 days he's been here. They're both really excited to work
together. Sister 'Alafoki is from Tonga, and she's Sister Johnson's
new companion. They have actually worked together before on Tarawa,
back when Sister Johnson was brand new. She was the Sister Training
Leader on Tarawa before she came here, so she loves to work hard and
we're all very excited about how the work is looking for the whole
island. Elder Davis and I have een informed to expect to leave around
the end of July or beginning of August, so we have quite a while left
here.

Interviews! All Sunday after church, we went and did the interviews
for the whole district. All together, we'll have 8 baptisms on
Saturday, and we are so excited! Elder Raika and I have 4, Teikauea,
Kaoa, Tekai and Tekiebu. We are so grateful for their progress and
their testimonies. I have been teaching Teikauea since I got here, and
after 4 months of working and making it through all kinds of
challenges, we are so happy that he is ready to be baptized. He was
married last week, and we got invited to be the witnesses. So fun.
Kaoa is a realy great investigator too. She is a really old lady. She
spends her days making donuts, and helping sick pregnant ladies. She's
basically just a good samaritan, and she goes and helps the sick
people for free every day. It's actually hard to find time to teach
her, because she hates being in her house, she would much rather be
out helping someone. She is fantastic. Tekai and Tekiebu are 12 and
14, and are brother and sister. They're so smart! They never have
problems remembering our lessons and have been so good about keeping
commitments. I've really been impressed with them making the trip out
to church each week, because their parents are inactive and don't go
with them. They walk fr about a half an hour on Sunday mornings on
their own just to be to church on time. Tekai is excited to be
baptized so he can receive the priesthood and help to pass the
sacrament. We are so grateful for all of our people for their faith
and their willingness to progress and grow.

One fun thing that happened Saturday.  We had really good power this
week, but just Saturday morning it was off. So we didn't have running
water again and showering was going to be a problem. Right when I was
about to go pull water out of the well, it started POURING rain! Some
of the heaviest rain I've seen since being here. And so I literally
just put on a bae and stood outside behind our house and showered in
the rain. It was so funny. Probably a lot cleaner than the well water
too. Definitely an experience, probably just a one-timer though :)

Surprisingly, this week seemed very fast. I don't know if it's
somthing that just happens when you've been a missionary for a while
or what, but it was truly a fast week. I'm grateful to be a
missionary, and I'm so happy to be given the opportunity to serve the
wonderful people of Christmas Island.

I love you all! I'll talk to you soon. Thanks for your prayers and
support, can't wait to hear from you again next week.

Love Dal