Pictures of Nikunau

Elder Farley was able to send a few pictures from Nikunau to his mom and she graciously shared them with me!  Dallin is in two, but you can only see his smiling face in one. There is also a picture of their chapel and their house to give a better idea of how life is on this tiny island.

This is before the first baptism ever on Nikunau!

Dallin and a big group ready to study together.  

Elder Farley in their house.

I think this is after a Sunday meeting in their chapel.

Hi mom and dad! I'm online but I'm not sure how much time I have because we may have to split our time on one laptop. The other one is broken for some reason. How are you all?

Crazy that the end of the year is already happening! Guess what today is... June 1st.... 6 month mark! Woooooooo! The week was exhausting, speaking Kiribati 24/7 is draining. It was nice to plan and study in English with Farley. We had heaps of work this week. I did 11 baptismal interviews, so this week we should have about 10 or 11 baptisms. Way fun. New comp is fine, he's a good kid. He's very new, for sure. 

Best thing of the week; sacrament meeting in the north. I gave a talk almost the EXACT SAME as yours! (We had ward conference and Ed was telling Dallin about his talk.) I talked about foundations of faith, and read from Matthew 8 on the houses, and Helaman 5:12. Way cool that we were thinking the same thing!

I really was getting into testimonies for these people. There is a difference between knowing the lessons and actually believing and wanting to live them. Most of our people are really ready. There are 1 or 2 I'm worried about, we're going to re-interview later this week. A highlight was a kid named Bwarenaba who talked about repenting meaning really changing and growing up. He's like 11, so it was deep for him.

(I told him how a couple missionary moms in our group who live in Utah dropped off a care package at the MTC for four Kiribati missionaries with BYU shirts and American junk food.) I'm sure they will love it. Members in Kiribati TREASURE BYU gear. Its like a way to say, I'm a Mormon and it's so cool to everyone.  Dads talk came through, I'll read it. It really is crazy, we always think about the same things! I just finished the BOM again (third time since January) and I love in Moroni where he puts the letter from his dad in there - tender.

Love you all! I have to bounce, Tiaon needs some time on. I'll talk to you all next week! love you all, see you soon! (6 months, whattttt)

love dal