Week 23 in Tarawa

Since school started, we have been very busy  so we have missed some time.  Right now we are in Aukland and can't download from our camera, so we will only talk about week 23 until we get back to Tarawa.  We put in this picture that we call our "Village Inn Breakfast.  Real eggs with real cheese, American Hashbrowns, and genuine bone in ham.  It's not so primitive as we thought.

Week 23 was Zone Conference.  This is always a treat.  The seniors cook the meal for the missionaries and enjoy the meetings.  I baked 36 hamburger buns. Betty will be happy to know that I used her roll recipe.  They were delicious.  We had Sloppy Joes on them. The missionaries were thrilled to be shown the movie, "Meet the Mormons".  The seniors had already seen it earlier.  President Weir gave a beautiful talk on obedience. You may be interested to know that in Kiribati, we are not "seniors" we are couple missionaries.

 

During the week we had extremely high tides, causing floods all over the Island.  I included a few pictures of some of the flooding we saw when we were out and about on Friday afternoon.

 I included this picture to show some of the debris that washed up with the waves. We actually saw the ocean washing over the road on one of the causeways.  It was pretty scary to realize the power of the sea, even with as small waves as we were having.  The kids, though, were having a wonderful time playing in the surf.

 

 

This is the water washing over the sea wall across from the I-Mart store we like to shop at.

Below are the decorations for the school opening social.  The students prepared all of the decorations, planned the food and the entertainment.  They did a great job.