Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Kiribati!!!!

Mauri n te riki ae bou!

Happy New Years Everyone! The last few weeks in Kiribati has been a busy one. First the holidays! We had a Christmas party with some members from the ward. It was so fun, and they turned on the Christmas devotional for us to watch! It was so awesome to be able to listen to a few of the talks. The New Years was a blast the Brocks and Kirks invited us over to their house and we played minute to win it games, way fun! The work in this area is just awesome! There are so many people that are willing to lesson with us. My trainer got sent to a different area this transfer so I am now companions with Elder Edgeworth! Super glad that we are able to be comps but we will only be together for two weeks as he is heading off to Nonouti. With him being new to the area, I have to lead of our lessons which is pretty hard being here only a couple weeks haha. But it has been a huge blessing so far in helping out my language. We had like the coolest dinner this week! We got to walk across walks into the middle of the ocean and sat on a boua and ate dinner. Way cool to be sitting like two feet above the ocean. This Sunday we picked up the new Come Follow Me manuals from church and am way excited to start studying from those, I know that they can be a huge blessing to each of your families! I am doing great and hope you all are too. I tangirikami

Elder McCain







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