More rain and more cargo

Mauri!

In case you're wondering, I'm emailing on Tuesday because Nikunau had
a public holiday yesterday, so there was no one working at the
internet cafe. I found out that our mission president apparently
allows us to email on another day if for some reason we can't email on
Monday.

This past week was a pretty good week. It's started raining here more
than it has in a year or so, which is nice, because rain water tastes
a lot better than campfire-boiled water. We have only gotten dumped on
twice so far, so that's good. We also got pretty lucky with cargo.
Nikunau is one of the last islands that the cargo ship goes to, so
when it finally comes, we basically just get the leftovers. That cargo
then runs out fairly quickly, and we have to wait for the next cargo
ship to come the next month. (In comparison, Butaritari had a cargo
ship come every week.) Our cargo ship came the week before I arrived.
We got lucky, though, because another cargo ship just came today, and
it's a big one.

Our P-day yesterday was pretty fun. We went on a 'hike' with other
member kids through the woods near the lakes of Nikunau. That was a
lot of fun drinking moimoto (green coconuts) and knocking down dead
coconut trees.

We also had several opportunities for service this week with members,
mainly cleaning up their forests. We just pile up fallen branches and
stuff into a pile to burn it. We also helped harvest coconut tree
branches, which they use for the flooring of their huts.

So we actually aren't getting the branch organized this week. The
person coming to set it up, his flight got rescheduled, so not sure
when it will actually happen. The work is going great here. It's
always a blessing being able to see the gospel of Jesus Christ touch
those we teach.

Thank you all! I tangiringkami!

Elder Schoeny

Sorry no pictures this week. I tried but they would not upload.