I'm in Butaritari

I've run out of time to write this Monday; so I'll just leave with a
quick I tangirinkami (I love you all!)

Sorry I couldn't get more to you this week. But we at least have email
on this outer island.

Thank you for all your support!

Elder Schoeny

Here is a little from the email Jared sent to us:

Thanks for the updates! Commas don't work so I'll be using semi-colons instead.

No; we didn't get to go to the temple. It was a four hour bus ride and
would have been extremely expensive. In Tarawa I just went on splits
with the district leaders; so I was able to get my first real taste of
the people in Kiribati. Very happy people and love to laugh. I stayed
in the district leaders' apartment.

Butaritari is nice. A lot less people than in Tarawa; which is
actually kind of nice. We have bicycles we use to get places. I'm
living in basically a two-level hut; with a separate room for the
bathroom. The only real warning I got from other missionaries about
Butaritari is that the teenage girls are really flirty because we're
white.

We attended church in Butaritari. We were a little late for the first
service; but I was able to take the sacrament later when performing a
church service for a family that was the only one in that area.

We whitewashed Butaritari; so for now we're mainly going off the area
book for now and getting to know the area.

Thank you! Love you!

Elder Schoeny