ELDER CARTER MCCAIN

Hello everyone!  This is Dad writing for Elder McCain as Carter was unable to email on P-day which was their Monday and our Sunday.  He left Salt Lake on Tuesday the 12th traveling through Los Angeles and then after a 5 1/2 hours layover took a 12 hour flight to Nadi, Fiji.  After a quick 2 hour layover in Fiji, he took another flight for 3.5 hours up to Tarawa, Kiribati arriving on Thursday the 14th in Kiribati.  They are 18 hours ahead of us here in Missouri.   On our Wednesday night around midnight we received an email from President Foster stating that he indeed did arrive with photo evidence! He was assigned to work in Bikenibeu which is on the island of Tarawa and his companion is Elder Ellis from Napa Valley, California.   We anxiously awaited contact from him and finally last night we had a chat over google text message with him.  He was able to access the internet cafe where they have to pay by the hour. I thought...

Hello All!! I apologize for taking so long to email all of you! I had lost the email group but I have them back now. I am doing great, life in the MTC is awesome. My companion is Elder Nawahine, he is from Idaho. My favorite part of the MTC so far is definitely learning the kiribati language. Everyday I get to go to class and learn more and more. So Mauri Ko Uara? The best part of learning a language is being able to teach lessons here in the MTC. Usually we have just been teaching our instructors as people who are interested in the church. The two highlights of the MTC so far has been General Conference as well as this past weeks devotional.  General Conference in the MTC was such a spiritual experience. My favorite talk was Dieter F. Utchdorfs! His talk totally relates to missionary work through his analogy. He talked about the call to adventure we all have, the best part was where he talked about learning to love. If we learn to love and press forward we will help others...