Anxiously Engaged in Kiribati

 We have been without power a lot lately. It gets uncomfortably warm, but we are still able to do our work. I see the Lord's hand in this work everyday.  I am truly learning to trust in His help.  When we started this mission, our theme scripture was: Acts 9:6  "Lord, what would thou have me to do?"   Wow, we couldn't have been more right. Every day we pray for guidance on what we should do for our current projects and who needs our help for future projects.  It isn't easy. We run into a lot of walls.  I start to get discourage and think "Ugh!  this will never happen".  But we just keep moving (Keith is way better at this than I am) and eventually we end up exactly where we should be. Many of our projects are moving from the development stage to the approved stage, to the implementation stage.   There's one project that I'm really excited about, we call it: Clean up Kiribati. It started when Elder Jaggi asked for a project that...

 These past 2 weeks have been crazy busy.  First, Uraia (a paid employee by the church who is a manager of humanitarian projects in the Pacific - and our boss) visits us from Fiji.  He stays 4 days here in Tarawa.  It was great having him here. So nice to have that kind of support!  Then 4 days after he leaves, Elder and Sister Lewis arrive.  They are  Area Welfare Specialists. He is a ICU doctor and a director of a medical school. She is a nurse and a professor of nursing. Both are very impressive people. They work with all health related humanitarian projects in the Pacific area.  This was their first time to Kiribati.  They are such kind, loving people.  Sister Lewis emailed us before coming and said "We have a Costco here in Auckland.  Do you need anything?"  My first response was to say no, but then I started thinking.  We could use some more vitamins.  The food here is very expensive and fairly low quality....