Bonus Week on Tarawa

Howdy!

I hope you all had a good week sharing the gospel, keep it up!  You are all amazing! :)

My transfer flight to Tabiteuea was delayed until tomorrow. So I was able to spend an extra week on Tarawa.  I will serve in Tabiteuea North - abbreviated Tab North.  And yep, that is the correct spelling. :)  So, even though I love you all and would love to send an email to y'all each week, I will be out of internet service.  At least that is what I have been told. But we will see. My new companion will be Elder Peterson, from Utah.

This past week I worked in Abatao and Tabiteuea (name of a city, not the island that I am going to).  I worked with Elder Pratt, from West Lake, Utah.  He is great.  It is a fun place to work, because we live in a different area.  We bike to the cities.  To get to them we either have to take a canoe across or, if it is too shallow, carry our bikes across.  It was fun. We actually had a senior couple come to our church on Sunday and they waded across.  They are awesome!

It was cool that I got to meet one of our recent convert's moms. (Teneneari's mom)  She is taking lessons now too, cool, right?!

Anyway,  my spiritual thought is this:  the Atonement is all powerful and encompassing.  It can bring us back from ANYTHING!!  We are never too far gone.  I recommend reading the Infinite Atonement.  I know that the Atonement is real and true and it will help us through
everything!

Love you all so much!  I am praying for you all!

Hurrah for Israel!
Elder Weenig

Our Branch President, President Akeriba, and his wife (Temaiku 2nd)

Carrying our bikes across to Abatao. (With Elder Pratt)

Farewell dinner with Saki - he is our Figian investigator 

New haircut - I didn't cut it this time :)...  I am next to Elder
Tomlinson, he is one of the older elders in the mission, he is
awesome.  We are in the computer lab at Moroni High School.

Zone Conference - I am standing next to Elder Miller, my
former companion.  Next to him is Elder Guy - my old house mate and it
was his birthday that day.  Behind him is Elder Hilliard - another old
house mate who I would run with in the mornings.

Elder Pratt and I on "broken bridge"

Transfers

Howdy! 

Sorry, I will be brief.  Time is of the essence... And is short... I don't know if essence is short or not... Food for thought... :)

Well, this week was great. I really enjoyed it.  It was my last full week in Temaiku.  I will move to Tabiteuea. It is an outer island without internet.  So that will be exciting.  I will definitely write letters and everything.  I love you all so much!

I have loved Temaiku and will miss it. I am grateful for the church.  I know that it is true and that it helps everyone everywhere.  It is amazing how much we can help a person grow and progress just by showing them the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is amazing how much we can improve when we truly apply the gospel into our lives.  I am amazed and very happy that it is in my life.

I love you all and pray for you all!  My challenge to everyone this week is to share the gospel with one person -- member or nonmember.  Truly share the pure doctrine of the Lord's Gospel - faith in Christ, repentance, baptism, receiving the Holy Ghost, and enduring  to the end.  Especially, the last one.

Hope you all got a chance to see or attend the temple this week!  Love you all!

Love you all!

Stand strong!

Hurrah for Isreal!

Elder Weenig

Teneneari's and Rutieta's family -we had dinner with them

After our Less Active Blitz with the YSA
 (we went and tried to find less actives in our area so that we can better start home teaching and whatnot)

Breakfast at Nei Taaua's house.  She is an RM and is great.  It was fun.
 One of our recent converts, Teruatabu is in the picture.

Tracting Blitz

Howdy!

Time is short, but I would just like to say that I love you all and pray for you all!  I hope all is well with you and that you have an amazing week!

This week we traveled in a canoe to do a tracting blitz in the elders' area of Abatoa.  It was fun.  It was great to be able to put our feet in the water. :)  I met Tikaua, who is from Abemama, there.  It was great.  He is fun.

Elder Graham and I went to Bairiki to do a divorce so that one of the less active parents of some of our recent converts can get married, so they can get on track for the temple.  IT IS CRAZY!!!  Bairiki has lots of real buildings!  And they are big.... very strange... :)

Also, with the help of some of the YSA, we made a roof for one of our investigators, Saki.  It was fun. But the leaves cut our hands a lot.  It was good though.  Really cool. He is from Fiji, so he lessons with us in English. 

Tuuete was baptized this past week.  She has family who are members and they invited us to lesson with her.  She goes to school at Moroni High School. She was great fun to lesson with. She is smart and she really understood the lessons.

My studies this week were on faith, hope, and charity.  It you all have some free time, I would recommend reading Moroni 7 as well as Preach My Gospel chapter six: Christlike Attributes.  It was great.  I learned a great deal.  There is so much that I need to improve on as a person and as a missionary, and I am extremely grateful that the Lord has given us an Atonement so that we can improve and become greater.  He is truly the Almighty and will give us the strength so that we can do all things.

I know this church is true.  It is God's kingdom on the Earth. It is Zion - if we make it such.

I love you all!  Keep the faith. Let's all go do "something good in the world today".

Stand Strong!
Ask God! - I know that He will answer.
Hurrah for Israel!
Elder Weenig

Tuuete's baptism  -- Elder Graham, Tuuete, and I

Our cat - to get rid of rats... in the future....

Elder Aaron Scholle, my friend from Timpanogos High School.  He left
for Kirimati Island (Christmas Island) this past week.  He is the best!

Roofing for Saki

Canoe ride to  Abatoa.
Elder Guy is sitting next to me, he also works in Temaiku 2nd - we have four elders