baptisms and boils

This is a picture of one of our new missionaries, Elder Anderson from Austrailia on the left and Elder Rererieta
from Kiribati on the right. Elder Anderson is about funny as, as he would say and we really get a kick out of him. If you can notice his baptismal lava lava. He is so proud of his lava lava that he struts around on baptismal day and makes sure he has so come up front and confer with me before the service starts so he can walk back down the isle to show off his fine lava lava. Elder Rererieta on the right tested positive for hepatitis B we think. The medical people here on Christmas couldn't agree if he had A or B. Hepatitis is common in the Pacific. Of course Elder Anderson brushed his teeth with Elder Rererieta's tooth brush a couple of weeks before we found out as a joke.
We have all had vaccinations before we came so we don't anticipate any problems. We don't know what the final disposition for him will be.
A big problem out here is boils. Sister Patten and I have not experienced them as of yet but this is one on the back of Elder Tupou's neck. He had six of them under one arm pit and two on his neck. He was a miserable elder for about ten days.