Dinner With The President of Kiribati, What?!

How is it going everyone back in America? If anyone was wondering what I was doing right now, i am currently sitting in a hand made fish net hammock underneath palm trees on an island no one knows about in the middle of the ocean. Sorry if that made you want to go on vacation haha but thats just the life here. Anyway, not a lot happened this week because my companion was pretty sick which meant basically house arrest haha. Here is the rundown:

Tuesday and Wednesday: Well Tuesday i did absolutely nothing because I was in the house all day long due to my companion being sick. For those of you who have served missions and have been stuck in the house all day, you know that there is only so much studying and entertaining yourself before you start to lose your mind. And then do that for 4 days in a row haha. Wednesday though was better because my companion felt good enough to go walk around and get out of the house. Wednesday was proabably one of the best nights i have had here so far because we got invited to have dinner with the President of Kiribati. The President was having a welcoming party for the high commisioner of New Zealand and my companion and 2 other Elders got invited because they are from New Zealand. And since we couldn't leave our companions, we got to go as well as 2 other Americans. Let me tell you that i thought i was back in America because it was a really fancy dinner, with tons of food and desserts that were made by good cooks. It still didn't even come close to the goodness of American food or even MTC food, but it was definitely the best food i have had since being here.

Friday: We spent the day boating back up to our area, and since it was stormy water it took a long time. Super exciting day but thats all that happened haha.

Saturday: The first half of the day was super awesome. We visited a lot of members and less actives, and even found a new person to start lessoning with. Then around 2 pm a massive storm hit us. My companion and I were crossing this bridge over the water and we looked out to the ocean to see this basically black storm headed right towards us. So we turned back around and started biking to our house and wow i have never seen a storm move so fast because it hit us 2 minutes later and nearly blew us off of our bikes. We finally got back to our house, closed all the windows and put logs on the pieces of sheet metal so the wouldn't blow into our house. 15 minutes later we hear a huge bang! We opened the door to see half of our neighbors roof blown off haha. So we went to help them fix there roof while in the middle of this huge storm. Stuff was flying everywhere from the crazy wind, and the rain was stronger than i have ever seen. We finally fixed there roof, went back in our house, and stayed there until it stopped. Thats definitely was of the most adrenaline rushing experiences i have ever had.

Well that was our week, full of sickness, dinner with the President and storms.

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Love Elder Jeppson

My companion and I found these super cool Buias

An expensive but tasty burger in Kiribati

Birthday party for  a 4 year old little girl 

This is where the dinner with the President was held 

Some of the food we ate 

Elder Merito and I

The President of Kiribati 

My arm.  This is the blister caused from a "pee bug".  We don't really know the names but when they land
on you they pee and it burns like acid and leaves a blister