Elder Carson Bowen Kiribati Islands in Marshall Majuro Mission

Looking forward to Skype tomorrow.  1 pm on Christmas Day our time!!! No news from Elder Bowen until then!

Man this was a crazy week! After staying in the house for 3 days we were all fortunately very blessed to have had the vaccination for chicken pox, thank you mommy! No one else has caught chicken pox. So, me and my companion Elder Austin tried to catch up and pick the work back up. Then, the next day was Zone Conference and we found out that Elder Austin was getting transferred to my old island Abemama south(where I just came from)! So happy for him. Back up training him was super fun! Then I met my new companion at orientation who just came from America, yup I'm training. It's all good because training is pretty fun watching white people trying to adjust to this land and language(I'm not white anymore). After getting my new companion, Elder Richins, went right to work. Saturday we had a baptism for our investigator Tikarerei. She was totally ready, and we are so happy for here. She had been reading the Book of Mormon with her fellow shipper a lot which has f

Mauri! This week was awesome with work and people coming unto Christ and stuff, until my companion wakes up with Chicken Pox and the nurse comes over and tells us that the whole house has to stay in the house for max 21 days. True bummer because we all feel fine but could be infected so we can't have any contact with anyone. The work has been going so well and our people have been repenting and preparing themselves for baptism.  Some are ready for baptism but have to wait for us. So Elder Austin, my companion woke up with a few spots on him and was wondering what they were. I was like "it's fine and will probably be gone tomorrow" just so that we could go work. Then he texts Sister Kirk out nurse, then she came over and checked him out and said yep this is chicken pox and everyone in this house has to stay. We are so board and it's very hard to stay productive because their is nothing to do.. I've been looking forward to going to mission tour(becaus

Hey Hey!  Today was a pretty good p day. We went to the airport to say goodbye to this one sister missionary. Then, went to this small restaurant.  We have been waiting to get on these computers for a long time. So now we are on. We are going to go back to the house and clean, and then go fish right outside our house. Pretty chill p day. We decided to not go down to Betio for combined p day just because it's so far.  So far things are going great! This transfer is almost done and it has flown by fast!  Transfers are again this next week and I believe I am staying. Also with my district I planned a combined service for the 1st. It went way good and you can see the picture. We all cleaned 2 wells, dug big hole, and cleaned trash. Now I'm putting together a musical fireside for the 2nd week(light your community) Have a great week! Elder Carson