from our church to visit him

Well, any way, this week was good.
We found tons of new people! So K, the guy we baptized is
T, we met his brother here in b! Me and Elder j who
was my MTC comp. were on a split. We decided to visit a last house
before dinner. K brother introduced himself that he was from
B, Aa village. Me and Elder H went there later. Elder
h and he reintroduced themselves, we asked what his dad's name
was, Ta. It rung a bell, so I asked if he knew K, he
explained that Ka was his older brother! It was pretty cool.
B is an awesome place. K brother, R, explained
that he would be willing to take lessons because we were apparently
the first missionaries from our church to visit him. I'm not sure how
long he's been in B, it's crazy how many people here haven't been
tracted before though! ... So unfortuately, R is going to sea
again for a few months. We're gonna write his name down in the area
book for them to check back on and teach in a few months if we're not
here. It's crazy how we ran into them out of like the tens of
thousands of people in betio.
Me and Elder haycock did another split yesterday with two ysa
melchizedek priesthood holders. It went way awesome. We got fellowship
for a few of our people. This really cool old guy named U is gonna
come to a ward activity, family home evening, because he's got
fellowship from a guy he knows from Christmas island who lives here in
b now as well. Ea and his wife didn't make it to church this
week, they said their baby was sick. but we've got hopes for them
nonetheless. E is doing way awesome with word of wisdom. His wife
T is already in 2nd Nephi, which is unusually fast and
diligent in my experience.
It's cool to see how as people willingly read the book of mormon, they
grow in conversion. Well, thanks again for all you guys do! The church
is true! love you all! - Elder Seffker

potential of what missionaries can achieve

So
this week we saw huge blessing. We had some really effective lessons
with our people. We found tons of new people. We got some good
referrals from other missionaries. We've had lots of help from ward
members in fellowshipping our investigators! We got this one referral
from sisters. His name is B. His wife was baptized long ago in
the 80's. She hasn't been since for a long time. He's got a pretty big
family, most of his kids are married, his youngest still lives with
him. He's 16. His name is Ta. He kind of reminds me of St! Any
way, we lessoned with the parents yesterday... B went to church
that morning. it was like 30 minutes past the time and he didn't
really have church clothes, but he had a really strong desire to go to
church, so he found something to wear and made it just in time for the
sacrament. We lessoned with him yesterday, he'd already lessoned with
missionaries long ago, and was almost baptized, but he moved or
something just before. He's already show tons of diligence in keeping
the commitments. He read before we even gave him a book of mormon or
asked him to read. He's way awesome. Ea and his wife are doing
awesome. In our short 6ish weeks of lessoning with E and his wife,
T his wife has nearly finished 2 Nephi. Ea came to church
yesterday. He's got an awesome fellowship who picked him up for
church. They work at the same place. The ward was way welcoming of
E as well. They made sure he knew about the upcoming activites,
were friendly toward him. Sunday turned out way good. We got another
awesome referral from sisters this week as well, a family of 4 T,
T, j, and t. We're just working on helping T get
to church. He works a lot, so we only lesson with that family on like
Friday and Sunday. Well, I have some pretty good studies this week.
I've kind of just been reading from the Book of Mormon and then PMG.
It's been good. I was able to get my hands on the Riciardi letters.
It's pretty good. It's not like scripture, but it does have some good
examples of some of the potential of what missionaries can achieve. It
teaches some good lessons. PMG is way useful. I've been studying
teaching skills a little bit lately. I like how it talks about how we
need to listen to the Spirit in order to truly discern needs. It's
like Richard J. Maynes recent talk of how he had to stop giving the
missionary the advice he thought he needed, but had to take a step
back and ask questions. Any way, thanks for all your prayers for us
and our people! Love you all!! - Elder Seffker

Read from the book of mormon, but apparently wasn't even a mormon.

Nice to hear all the stories! That's cool to hear about all the
positive changes within the family and withing the church.
Very nice story about family history!
Thanks a ton for the prayers and everything!
So this week has been pretty good, our investigator couple that's been
doing awesome accepted to come to church this week. It was awesome.
Our ward here is doing great. Me and my comp taught YSA this sunday,
it was pretty fun. My comp just left for Christmas island today... So
I should be getting a new comp soon. So I won't have a comp for a few
days. Fortunately we're in a house full of elders. But as far as my
area and lessons... Kiribati is really awesome because usually there
are a few young people, YSA men, who are totally willing to become a
missionary for a day or two. Like they're willing to do a day long
split. So that's what we're trying to do. Because right now I'm in a
trio cause I've got no comp. But there's this one YSA guys that
doesn't work, so hopefully he can work beside me for all of the
lessons we've got planned for teusday. We did a bit of tracting this
week, which went pretty well. We did a district blitz in an area that
was struggling a bit cause there's not a ton of people in that area.
So all of us missionaries in the district tracted there for about 2
hours. There was a lot of success! Each companionship found a few
people that we're really prepared. From people who were baptized and
just not confirmed long ago, to people who had taken lessons and then
moved away before there lessons were done and they weren't referred.
There was a lot of good success, it went well. So this P-Day we did a
field day sort of thing. It was pretty fun, they had volley ball going
on, basketball, soccer, and four square. I was able to see a lot of
people who have came back from outer islands and stuff like that. The
sisters from my intake are dying one Friday, sad. It's crazy how fast
the time goes by. So fast. But yeah, it was a pretty good week. We
were able to get some new investigators, K and her son. Elder's
used to lesson with her husband but apparently the wife was always
busy. We were able to get some times with this one kid who we used to
lesson with's parents. Turns out the father used to always her stories
from his grandma when he was little about the book of mormon stories.
His grandma read from the book of mormon, but apparently wasn't even a
mormon. We meet a few other good people this week, it was pretty
great! Well, have a good week!! Love you all! have a good Easter! -
Elder SEffker

we've been seeing lots of blessings!

Hey! Thanks for the email!
So the investigator family is doing awesome! E, and T and
their little 1 year old. So there was a time where we were told the
official ward boundaries of our ward. It was right by E area, we
went to his house to check it out and it turns out he is in our
boundaries after all, the other side of his little road is the start
of the next ward! We also got told yesterday by an investigator that
he attended the moroni high school, so we figured he probably had
indeed already joined the church and then just gone less active. Our
next lesson with him was right after ward and so we asked him and he
was like "no it was just my brother that went to moroni, I went to a
high school right next to moroni so that's probably why he thought
that." So yeah, we've been seeing lots of blessings! When we give them
a choice of days for their next lesson they actually choose the
closest day! haha, and they remembered our lesson yesterday and
returned to their house just in time for us to lesson rather than just
not coming. They're some really nice people. We just taught them word
of wisdom yesterday. They accepted the lesson really well, & the
commitment to live it. Yeah they're really awesome, they seem pretty
prepared! Hopefully they can make it all the way, we're praying for
them! So now we're just looking for some fellowship for them.
Well, this week has been good! We got some more good tracting in. Good
lessons. We found a lot of people again in our tracting efforts. Some
more less actives as well. Some other people that we've really enjoyed
working with this week are T and M. They're two male
college age guys. They really enjoy their lessons. They're progressing
pretty well. Sometimes we help marewe with english, cause he's
enrolled in a school where they just study english. A lot of jobs in
kiribati require english so that's why he's learning it. Office jobs
at least.
Well other than that, the week has been good. We've been blessed with
lots of good health. Lots of good work, really fun and fulfilling as
well.
I've been reading in Alma, the war chapters. They're way interesting.
Well, I know that the church is true, I'm so grateful for our Savior
through which we can be cleansed from all our sins and short comings.
If we'll just take the necessary steps to repent and turn to Him and
leave our sins completely. I'm grateful for the Book of Mormon as well
and all the words of the prophets inside it. Well, have a good week!
Love you all! - Elder Seffker