MOM I LOVE YOU!
I miss you!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I hope you're having a super super great day! I'm so excited to talk to you this upcoming week! Dad set up my Skype account so I think we're good to go with that. I think it should be around 3 O' Clock your time when I call, or something like that. I'll write at the bottom of this letter what time I am going to send it and that can hopefully help you tell the time difference. If I am allowed to call a few minutes before seven I most certainly will! This week has been pretty good for me here in Kiribati. The highlight of my week was getting to witness one of my favorite investigators named Tenanora be baptized by Merika, our Elder's Quorum President and chief bodyguard of the President of Kiribati. Tenanora is sixteen years old, and recently moved to our area from a town called Banana in Kiritimati Island. Tenanora has been a super awesome friend to me. It's been awesome to watch him develop and feel greater happiness as he has come to learn and apply the principles of the gospel. Yesterday he was confirmed and passed his interview to receive the Aaronic Priesthood and be ordained to the office of a Priest. This week we are going to try to get him enrolled at Moroni High School and signed up for some temple and mission prep classes. He's got a bright future ahead of him! I've been influenced greatly by his character and example and am super happy for the changes in his life he is making in order to keep the commandments and follow Christ. Since I'll be Skyping next week I guess I'll go ahead and mention that an an investigator of ours named Katoi is going to be baptized next week. We've been teaching him ever since I arrived in Tarawa, but had been struggling for a while to overcome his addiction to smoking. What helped him to stop smoking you might ask? The candy from the Christmas package you sent me! Anytime he felt the urge to smoke, he would eat the candy canes or chew on the bubble gum you sent instead. He is going to be baptized by his brother-in-law named Bwarii, a member who my previous companion Elder Hunter and I arranged to receive the Aaronic Priesthood. I'll be excited to let you know how that turns out. Not much out of the ordinary has really happened recently. We stay pretty busy and are doing our best to stay anxiously engaged in missionary work. My companion says the last three or four nights I have been speaking Kiribati in my sleep. My companion said last night I was explaining to our Bishop the need to increase the home teaching rates of the Elders Quorum and the night before I was asking our Ward Mission Leader for a less-active list. That has kind of summed up my week: lots of great missionary work! I sent you a short clip of ara katekaraoi nakoim(our "good luck") to you. Hopefully you'll be able to open it. I don't know... I'll try to send again sometime if you can't open it due to formatting issues or whatever... I LOVE YOU SO SO SO MUCH MOM HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND MOTHERS DAY I LOVE YOU!!! Elder Morphonios
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About MeI'm Elder Joseph Morphonios, and I've chosen to serve a 2 year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Join me as I share my adventures about serving the good people of the Marshall Islands, and sharing the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ with them. Archives
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