So an interesting week I suppose. On Tuesday, they picked us up on a
boat to go to zone conference on Tarawa. They were supposed to come at
four in the afternoon, so we planned a couple lessons before we left,
but they came just before ten in the morning,
so we missed them, which I was a little sour about, but not outwardly.
Tarawa was pretty interesting, it is far more advanced than Abaiang, but
definitely third world. Elder Wright insists that it is just like
America, but I have to remind him that it is not.
We stayed in Teorereke for two nights, Elder Gurr and Elder Patterson
from the MTC stay there so that was pretty fun to see how they were
doing. The first night we got there, they took us to this member's house
who is trying to open up a Kiribati burger shop,
so we got to taste exactly what that is. There were cooked onions, some
canned ham, and egg, and some meat sauce on it. All on a donut bun. A
lot of flavor was there, it was pretty good. I also bought chocolate
milk at one of the stores, it's called Indomilk,
it's actually a very high percent cream, it was pretty good. Only
problem is that I haven't had dairy products in over a month and it
really hurt my stomach. Sleeping in the house was pretty rough too, it
was so cold. I also think I got a fever the second
night there. As soon as we got back to Abaiang and spent the night
though, i was all better. I think it was just something about Tarawa, it
was odd. As for the rest of the week, we had two people literally ask
us to be baptized, which was nice for a change.
One of them lives way down in Borotiam at the other end of the island,
so we had to bike down there. We went past it to the very tip of the
island just to say that we did. Took us 2 hours and 22 minutes. The only
other good thing I guess is that I've become
better at throwing rocks at dogs. They wake me up at night so I'm
teaching them to fear me.
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