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o attend our english class or come to church or listen to the missionaries they are urged to do so by their non member families who only want them to join the church so that they can go to moroni which is the best school around then when they have gotten their education and come home the parents will not allow them to go to the lds church anymore they only wanted the education for their children that will change from now on elder patten will see that the lds children get first choice even if they are not the smartest this is confirmed by pres bleak and it will give the lds youth a change to get their education and a firm testimony by the time their graduate we have talked to people who are graduates of moroni but don t come to church anymore they say yes we know it is true but my family says i have to be kpc or catholic or whatever and they do it because of the culture i hope we are here when the testing begins and we have a change to see that many of the wonderful young people we love will have the change to go to moroni last week we were able to watch conference at a members home who has satellite and it was a wonderful experience i looked around the room with some of the faithful members sitting on the floor taking notes and feeling the spirit there we were looking at the conference in a humble home feeling like salt lake was close to us yet so far away as i watched i though of all of you watching what i was watching only at a different time of day the spirit was strong and i am so grateful for the speakers and the guidance and direction we received it is a wonderful thing to go on a mission sometimes hard but in the scheme of things the hard times will be remembered with fondness and the people will never be forgotten even with our desire to see you all again be where people really understand what we say it will be hard to leave all of this it is something that goes straight to your heart and stays there it is so gratifying to see people return to church and be happy to do so our prayer is that they will stay even after we are gone another couple will come and they will be wonderful and will love and help the people and so life moves on the economy seems to be in trouble at home and obama seems pretty scary to me i hope the lord will have his land on this election and the right thing will happen as we read in the book of mormon this morning people only change when they have hardships in the good times they think they are self sufficient and don t need the lord i pray that america will be humble and prayerful enough to vote right in spite of the media and those who only want power money and control i guess it is the same old story we have trouble with our little computer the on off button is ready to die and it doesn t look like we are going to hawaii anytime soon if we get transferred then we will probably get a new one and ryan said he would help us until then we are limping along and have the church computer both computers have trouble staying on the internet but that is the story of christmas island internet service we had a wonderful family get baptized last week and i believe they will stay active i think they will make him sunday school president this week he has a short wave radio and will be able to get a message to me from fanning when john is there and so that helps going to fanning will be a trip for him and he is brave to do it i think i will pass on that one he is better at eating whatever is offered than i am and sleeping on whatever there is to sleep on the trip over in the boat will be interesting as well but he will do it and try to get fanning organized well there you have it for the week we pray for all of you each day and love you dearly until next time be safe and say your prayers love from us posted by anonymous at 10 34 am no comments thursday october 9 2008 goings on on christmas island october 7 2008 october 7 2008 we have been so busy the last couple of weeks that we haven t had the time to write on the blog i better repent and catch up the air service from air pacific is still in limbo the latest information that we have is that australia and new zealand are willing to kick in to help kiribati upgrade the runway here on christmas island i don t forsee air pacific landing here any time in the near future i noticed big bags of cold asphalt being unloaded from the boat from tarawa but the people here have neither the expertise or the equipment to accomplish much one thing that we have learned while living in the islands is that you shouldn t get your expectations up for anything because you will most likely be disappointed our meetings on sunday have been steadily increasing over the past while we now routinely get nearly 300 out every sunday i have been going out into the villages and picking up the old infirm and the pregnant women and bringing them to church i pick up one man in his 40 s who is in a wheel chair he loved the aaronic priesthood to bring him the sacrament i visited him and said we weren t going to bring him the sacrament anymore we would pick him up instead he is so happy to be in church on sunday i also pick up grandma who is probably younger than i am she has a wonderful go tee and is very proud of it i pull up to her house and yell grandma let s go while i m opening the door of the van she grumbles and moans and tells me how bad her knees hurt and then i tell her about my knees and she looks at me and then winks the rules say that we probably aren t supposed to ride people in the church van but i figure we ve got six months left and i can t think of any more of a remote place that they could send us we have been blessed with lots of less active people coming back to church we visited a village policeman recently and invited him back to church he said he graduated from moroni high school and was baptized then never came to church again he has become very faithful and asked us yesterday how he could receive the aaronic priesthood we will help him the boat is here from tarawa and has brought cargo for fanning island so it will be transferred onto the smaller boat and we may go to fanning this week nothing is scheduled and it doesn t bother anyone from what i understand the people in fanning are awaiting our arrival so they can request full time missionaries and petition the church to build a school here on christmas so their kids can go to mormon school it will be my job to break their bubble and tell them the church is not in the school building business anymore by the time i handle the other problems there i hope i don t end up in a pot especially reserved to cook white meat with our four missionaries and us we are stirring up the island some the catholics are now having special classes and letters being sent out telling their people about the bad mormons the interesting thing is that we continue to love the priests and nuns and greet them with a wave and a big smile and offer to give them a ride to town all of the fuss just gets more people to ask questions and gives the missionaries a chance to answer their questions we had a wonderful family join the church recently golden contacts the father was baptized two weeks ago received the aaronic priesthood and baptized his wife last saturday he will be a leader here in a short time the branch is in as good a shape as we have seen it since we ve been here almost fully staffed with good people the training is geared to their abilities we have really had to use the kiss method in our training if we keep it simple they do great if we don t they get frustrated and can t handle it our little island paradise is not without it s problems one of our 20 year old girls ran away with a 17 year old boy a few weeks ago sister patten visited with her last week and she is thinking that the honeymoon may be over and now she also has a little 17 year old boy to raise we advised her to marry him legally or leave him and whatever she decides to talk to the branch president and start the repentance processing we had high hopes for her i guess the excitement of cooking over a fire and hauling water for the rest of her life was just to compelling a call besides that we think she s probably pregnant we of course asked if he would receive the missionaries she didn t know which is one more reason why this is kiribati marriage is not a good thing she is giving away all that she has believed in and living in a situation that the lord frowns on another wonderful sweet ysa came to us last week and told us she is pregnant she came from tarawa on the ship in july and was seduced by one of the sailors who told her he was in love with her but neglected to tell her that he was already married and his wife just had a baby last month we love this girl so much that it about broke our hearts we were working on getting her to byu hawaii and out of here to a better life she is so repentant and remorseful her family supports her and will help her she is ready to do what she needs to do to come back a family that went to the temple in fiji when we first came here is in disarray already he has found a new wife who is pregnant of course no divorce from the old one and no legal marriage with the new one following the last two temple trips we have had disciplinary problems fairly soon after making commitments in the temple maybe some of them do not fully understand the commitment they are making there will not be any temple trips any time soon again on christmas island we will have disciplinary councils when i return from fanning our friend maiaa from fanning island who has been here for a couple of weeks brought us fresh loin of tuna a couple of days ago and some fresh grouper today he is a great fisherman and has brought us the best fresh fish that i have ever tasted i think he s getting me ready for food on fanning while i am there all in all the work is progressing and we are enjoying the experience sometimes we feel a little isolated and discouraged but we are able to get up the next day and go forward some back home tell us we are getting trunky our release date is april 8 2009 and if you check it out that s six months from tomorrow we are committed to work hard until we get on the airplane we will then turn our hearts and minds toward having a wonderful week in hawaii with some or all of the kids before we return home i think i may have a photo or two to include and will do so tonight or tomorrow we love missionary work and have firm testimonies of the truthfulness of the gospel posted by anonymous at 6 59 pm no comments thursday september 18 2008 gulfstream g 19 castaways this is the gulfstream g 19 that came yesterday from hawaii we wanted a little action so we went out and took a look it was a very nice looking airplane with two rollsroyce engines it will take four and a half hours to fly to hawaii but you would ride in comfort as we were leaving the airport the postmistress and relief society president said that she heard over radio kiribati before she came to the airport that taiwan had given the government 3 000 000 and that air pacific would resume flights shortly if that is true then i guess the runway may not have been the problem the government not paying their bill is more likely oh well it s something to talk about we are still here alive well and still liking it it appears that i will have to go to fanning island to do some training so the area office can get quarterly reports tithing reports etc from the branch that was organized on fanning and then through a series of circumstances it has been very difficult to give them the support that they need it appears that the second counselor in the branch presidency on fanning has decided that the word of wisdom doesn t apply to him and that his smoking and making and selling the local alcoholic beverage is just fine we will have to have a little talk about that 20 plus hours in a converted wwll landing craft up there and then half again that long coming back against the current sister patten has declined my invitation for an ocean voyage so i will take a set of missionaries and the first counselor in the christmas branch presidency the first counselor from fanning came last week to get parts for his truck one of eight vehicles on fanning island his name is maiaa and is an amazing man 60 years old and looks like charles atlas we had a nice visit about fanning s needs one good thing is that i can bring back some island bananas which we love maiaa brought us a couple of fresh fish this morning sister patten was so excited she sent me right outside to clean and prepare them for lunch not maiaa says that i ll have to eat fish fish fish and then more fish when i get up there also breadfruit papaya and bananas the island bananas are the little ones and are so good well the house smells a little fishy not too bad actually he had just caught the fish and so they were very fresh i really am not a fish eater at least not the fish here but elder patten enjoys them and so he gets to eat them we wrote a long dissertation last weekend for the blog and copied and cut and then lost it somewhere so we will just tell you what is new and hope we remember all the important news if the pres gives the okay elder patten will go to fanning island with the people he mentioned above i am not looking forward to having him gone for at least 10 days if the boat goes and comes on some kind is schedule because there will be no communication no email of course no telephone so i will just have to pray that he gets there safely and gets back before too long i will be okay two of our missionaries will be here and there are plenty of people around the young single adults come over often and visit with us i enjoy being with them especially lisa who is a rm she went to california san bernardino mission she speaks english well and is americanized she told me she didn t want to come home from her mission she is coming over tomorrow and we are going to teach her how to bake bread she is trying to get into byu hawaii for winter semester and so we hope to see her again while we are all in hawaii if that is the part of hawaii we are in you all would love her a lot and feel right at home with her the nights will be long but there is no fear on this island of crime the missionaries are within 15 feet of our home i will just try to stay busy and will probably do a lot of writing to all of you how do you like our little kitchen pretty cute huh we had written all about the culture here in the blog that we lost it is so different from what we are used to they carry the traditions of their fathers down and down through the generations some are so unnecessary and cause problems we have tried to teach them about the lord s culture and some get it and some get half of it but hang on to what they have been taught and then get all mixed up our sister rm that came home a few months ago has made some bad choices we were with her in marjuro and so hoped that...