Dear Friends and Family,
Fanning Island is greattttt! Elder Rowsell and I are enjoying our time out here working hard and having some fun. Last P-Day we went fishing and I caught the biggest fish that I have caught on my mission. Like a 30 pound fish--it was soooo sick! We are going out to get some bone fish today. <3 I love working out here and the work is going great.
We haven't had fewer than 16 investigators in each of the last three weeks at church. Yesterday, we had 90 people overall at church, which was the most we have had in attendance at the Fanning Branch in months. It was way cool to see so many people at church. Pretty much all of our investigators have come to church and are progressing at this point... Sometimes things change week to week with our investigators, but all of them are searching for truths and I think they will all get to the finish line at some point. We have four or five families who are pretty much READY. And we have a list of 10 marriages that need to be performed before the investigators can be baptized, which is really overwhelming. But the hardest part is knowing that it's out of our control... We are relying on people from Kiritimati and government workers to get the paperwork through for the marriages. We are praying and hoping that things will get there at some point.
The one family I want to talk about is Tekannoe and his wife Neinang and their 3 angel daughters (ages 14, 12, and 10). They haven't been super religious in the past and Tekannoe has been a drunk for years. But when we started lessons, they began to change until they have completely changed and are currently keeping the Word of Wisdom and are waiting to get married. They hold family prayer, read their scriptures everyday and have come to church the past three weeks. It's been a complete 180 degree change and it's so cool to see. Pray for these marriages so that these baptisms can start flowing.
I Love you all. Have a great week!
Elder Parrish
Photos:
1. Missionaries at the District Conference on Christmas Island that Elder Parrish attended a few weeks ago
2. The Fanning Island Branch at their Meeting with Elder Johansen of the Area 70 who recently visited
3. Biking to Church
4. Recent Baptisms
5. Fishing
6. Full boat
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