Back arrived back in Majuro early Tuesday morning. We can’t tell you how blessed we feel that we
were able to come back to finish our Mission.
On Wednesday, we went to the Delap District meeting. Elder Vano is the District leader and he is
doing a great job. The Districts usually
like to see us come because we bring cookies with us.
We attended a baptism in Long Island on Saturday. It was a couple that Sister Tominey and Sister Tebwanei taught. It is so wonderful to have both of them because then they will raise their children in the church. Also Sunday evening we had the Assistants Elder McComie and Elder Bradshaw over for dinner. Elder Bradshaw will be returning to Kiribati so we wanted to share a few moments with them.
Tuesday, we invited Elder & Sister Barlow for
dinner. They are so great and help with
many assignments to make the mission run smoothly.
Wednesday, we left for Kiribati. We were able to go on Our Airline so we arrived
there in a little over an hour! We hope
that this Airline will continue to fly; right now it is on a trial basis. 
Thursday, we went to the Airport to meet our new intake of missionaries. They are Elder Iotebwa and Sisters Alafoki,
Anitoni, Lavulavu, Mafi, Tureira and senior sisters Talataina and
Ucunabaravi-these are our first Senior Sisters and we are excited that they
have been called. They are all so
excited to be here and to start their service.
We also received eight new missionaries in Majuro-Elders Bascom, Boaden,
Duiriba, Faleono (18 yr old), Whetstone and Sisters Crane (19 yr old), Samuel
and Tofa . We are grateful that they all arrived safely and are anxious to meet
them. 
We had training for the Kiribati Missionaries in the Tune’s
old home where we were staying. Tom and
I had to leave early to attend a devotional meeting with the Moroni
students. We both spoke and they had a
student give a scripture and then they had some students sing a couple of songs
for us. One was “In the Hollow of His
hand” and “Fare thee Well” song that we both love. It was such a sight to see all of the Moroni
students there and so emotional to hear these songs. After the training was over we had lunch with
everyone thanks to the seniors and then we did some final interviews. Our interviews were with Elders Tui, Simpson,
Faulke, and Bradshaw and Sister Balenacagi.
They will all be leaving before the next zone conference which will be
with President and Sister Weir. Wow!
On Friday, we had our Zone Conference. I spoke on the worth of Souls and Tom trained
on the information we received at the Mission Presidents Seminar. We also had the incoming and the outgoing missionaries
bear their testimonies.
We had lunch
thanks to the seniors which was spaghetti, bread sticks, salad, and cake. After lunch we had testimonies from the missionaries
in regards to their reading of the Book of Mormon; they were to choose a
principle or ordinance and during their reading mark passages that pertained to their topic. The testimonies were so good and they seemed
to gain a lot of insight by doing this.
Tom had challenged them in March all to read the entire book by the time
we met again in zone conference. Tom
finished the meeting and then we sang the mission song. This brought many tears from us knowing that
this was the last meeting with all of them.
Sister Cassita then presented us with T-shirts that had a picture of the
Kiribati Missionaries on the back. Also
a lava lava which had all of their signatures on it. What wonderful keepsakes these will be. We then had the opportunity to hug all of
them before they all left. We have the
best missionaries in the world.
We had lunch
thanks to the seniors which was spaghetti, bread sticks, salad, and cake. After lunch we had testimonies from the missionaries
in regards to their reading of the Book of Mormon; they were to choose a
principle or ordinance and during their reading mark passages that pertained to their topic. The testimonies were so good and they seemed
to gain a lot of insight by doing this.
Tom had challenged them in March all to read the entire book by the time
we met again in zone conference. Tom
finished the meeting and then we sang the mission song. This brought many tears from us knowing that
this was the last meeting with all of them.
Sister Cassita then presented us with T-shirts that had a picture of the
Kiribati Missionaries on the back. Also
a lava lava which had all of their signatures on it. What wonderful keepsakes these will be. We then had the opportunity to hug all of
them before they all left. We have the
best missionaries in the world.
That evening they had the West Stake Cultural evening. Each ward came up with a song and three
dances which they were all judged on. It
was a beautiful evening and the dancing took place on Moroni campus. These people are so talented and they all did
a super job. The Temaiku Branch ended up
winning. We saw many of our former missionaries
performing in their wards; we always love to see them especially this time
before we go home. The stake fed us dinner. We were so grateful that they waited to have
this until we could return.
On Sunday, we attended the Eita ward. Then later on we had dinner with the seniors
at the Osborn’s apartment. They seniors fed
us all week which was so nice and good. 
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