Elder Jared Schoeny: Blessings and Recipes

Mauri!

Hope everyone had a great week! Everything's going great here in
Nikunau. School is just starting back up for the kids here after a two
week break, so that means we will be teaching Taekan te Aro (religion
class) again. That also means I'll have less time to email because we
have it on Mondays.

One cool thing that happened was we had the opportunity to give the
father of a member family a blessing due to some intense pain he was
having. We just checked up with him recently, and he told us he hasn't
been having any pain since. It's an interesting contrast to America,
where we have access to vast amounts of medicine and trained doctors
who can give us what we need. Kiribati, especially outer islands,
don't have that luxury. Many times a blessing is the only hope they
have.

Work has been going well. We're trying to get more of our
investigators to attend church. There are so many blessings that come
from attending church regularly, and we want to help them understand
that and experience it for themselves.

Also thought I would share a few Kiribati recipes for you all to try:

Milk ball candies. Take a bowl of powdered milk and pour sweetened
condensed milk into it until it becomes a dough. Then just roll it
into little balls and eat. You can also mix in some drink mix as well
for more flavor.

Sweet milk. A popular drink. Take a small pitcher of room-temperature
water, pour sweetened condensed milk into it and mix until water
becomes milk-colored. Then add 3-5 large spoonfuls of sugar and mix.
(Kiribati people like their drinks sweet)

Lightly-flavored juice. Also very popular, but not as much in Nikunau
just because cargo is limited. Take a small pitcher of
room-temperature water, dump 5-6 large spoonfuls of sugar and mix.
Then add a couple tablesoons of your favorite cordial and mix.

Rice. Pretty self explanatory. We have it all the time.

Can't really think of any other simple recipes right now. I'll let you
know if I find any other good ones.

Thank you for all your love and support! I tangiringkami!

Elder Schoeny

Sorry again I didn't send pictures last week. The first two are from last week.

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