Sorry this email is coming a little later than usual. The workers at
the internet station where I am at forgot to put oil into our generator this past weekend, so we have had a big delay in addition to our internet that is extra slow this week. I have some really fun pictures that I would like to share, but it is unlikely that I will end up being able to this week. Glad to hear the family is doing well and that you are getting to participate in lots of fun church activities, I like hearing about all the things going on at home. I can see in my inbox that you have sent me some more emails, but I may or may not be able to open them. Either way, tell Maddie and the rest of the family that I love them so much. I guess I'll just talk a little about life here in Nikunau. Elder Zamora and I live in a section of a village called Muribenuia, which is the farthest north of all five villages of Nikunau. We live in our own hut, but we live in a community setting with about ten other people. Each morning we start a fire on which a 56 year old lady usually cooks our fish and rice and boils our water to filter it. We eat a lot rice and fish. A picture that I had wanted to send you this week was of me holding a fish about 30 pounds and about three feet long. The names of the most common fish that we eat are the blue-fin tuna, the yellow-fin tuna, the flying fish, squid, te kamea(don't know what it's called in English), shark, turtle. Sometimes when cargo is running low like this past week we eat some really weird stuff like sea worms and oysters. This week a less active family we had dinner with fed us an expired can of goose meat from China. We usually don't have to cook our own food. Tameri and Tien's sister hasn't arrived in Nikunau yet, though she was supposed to. I'm finding more and more that people are very lax about getting around, even and maybe especially pilots. Tameri and Tien are doing great though. They are very close the members of the ward and are continuing to lesson with us and progress. Tameri reminds me way too much of Sarah and makes me miss her like crazy. I beat her up, joke with and play with her in almost the exact way I did with Sarah. The cuts I have been dealing with on my right foot are healing, which is great news, especially because I found out this past week that If one of them had gotten any worse I would need a nurse to flatten out a fishing hook, tie some fishing line to it and stitch my foot up. This week I got a bunch of penny/dime sized boils running down my left arm from a small weird bug that must of gotten through my mosquito net and secreted it's liquid on me while I was sleeping. The locals say that if they pop it will leave a permanent scar. I had one pop, but I am thinking it won't scar because it was very close to completely healing. Elder Zamora and I are getting along great. His knowledge and skill sets combined with my greenie fire are helping us to great things. We were going to baptize Tiaven this upcoming Saturday, November 13th, which would be the same time as Mema's Birthday(Which by the way tell her I said Happy Birthday), but we have another kid named Tooki who we have prepared for baptism. We are planning to baptize the two on November 20th. We picked up a super golden investigator named Uneke this yesterday. She is in her upper 20's/lower 30's with a one year child named Marboko(Mark). During our lesson yesterday she told us about a dream she had in which she was standing alone on the beach by herself and saw two angel messengers dressed in slacks and white shirts teaching the true gospel of Christ. She told her KUC minister about her experience, and was publically shamed and declared a liar amongst all of those of which she knew and loved. She is now very much a part of the Mormon community, coming to game nights every Friday night and hopefully to FHE tonight, and wants to lesson most every day. The intense amount of faith and hope and charity of these people have changed my perspective and continually makes me want to be a better person. Well Mom, that's about all I have time for this week. Know that I love you and the rest of the family like crazy. Elder Morphonios
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