Iaorana tatou!
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| A Strange Fruit at Dinner, Almost Like Grapes (We found these at Sprouts in Denver; can't remember the name) |
Last Monday I got shipped from the
islands to a slightly bigger island (Tahiti) and it is like night and day here.
First of all no one spoke in tahitian during testimony meeting. I bore
my testimony and said "Iaorana Tatou" like the true Tahitian I am and I
kid you not people came up to me and were so proud of the two tahitian
words I pronounced correctly. It was actually kinda funny. Something
else that's also really different is driving. All I need to say is that
there are way too many roundabouts and random speed bumps. And I almost
hit a pedestrian, but there were no casualties this week.
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| American Food to the Rescue |
Soeur Sellers mentioned McDonald's in the last post. Here is her picture of a "mobile" McNugget! Truly thought-provoking!
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| Inside McDonald's - Bonding with Your Food |
Guess who got to go to the temple for the first time in 7 months???
This sister missionary! It was so perfect. It was kinda weird because
it was in French, but ca va. Something that was also different is some
temple workers got so excited to see the missionaries that one lady just
ran up and hugged us and kissed our foreheads. Not something I'm used
to in the temple.
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| The Tahitian Temple |
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| Holiness to the Lord, House of the Lord in French |
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| Holiness to the Lord, House of the Lord in Tahitian |
Ok. For amis here we have a
lot of potential people. We actually had 3 fixed baptisms when I got
here (which has since gone down to 1, but I'll explain later) and
several potentials. I know I shouldn't pick favorites, but we have two
amis named L_ and T_ who are literally angels. Every time we
go (ok, i've only been twice) it is such a spiritual experience. Once he
was talking about how before he found the church he was a drunk who
would beat his wife. When he mentioned that he hit his wife a lot before,
he started tearing up and even had to leave the room. This is one of
the many reasons I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. It transforms people
into people they had no idea they were capable of becoming.
On
to the next family T_! The mom is so ready to be baptized and so is the
daughter, but at this point the son doesn't want to and the father has a
hard time believing in God. But he believes in Jesus Christ, so I'm not
sure what the problem is there. Anyway, we had the baptism fixed for
the 17th but because the son didn't want to get baptized that early the
mom asked us to restart the lessons and maybe by the time we finish them
again he'll be ready. (*Names have been changed)
This Sunday was crazy.
So Sœur Bready has only been here for six weeks before I got here and it
has been so hard to find places. I can't imagine being here for only
six weeks and then having to show this sector because the roads make no
sense. I have no idea how she knows as much as she does because most of
the time I don't know where I am. Because we don't know where we're
going a ward missionary offered to show us around and to see where
everyone lives. I was expecting it to take like an hour... or maybe a
hour and a half. Three hours later
we show up to the church about to throw up because of the crazy
mountain roads. Our sector is really big, and it's right on the
mountain. I'll have to send some pictures of last week because I actually
thought I was going to die and I wasn't even driving.
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| With Soeuer Braedy |
We
had conseil de paroisse (ward council--a planning meeting at church with the auxiliary leaders) this week and it was interesting! We were only
there for a couple minutes, but it was still super good. Tahitians are
so funny and when they get excited or mad or anything they yell. That's
pretty much how our conseil de paroisse went. Everybody was just yelling
at us and I'm still not sure if they were mad at us or just excited for
us. Sometimes it's a little hard to tell the difference.
Anyway, that was my week! Have a great week and I love you all!
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| The View from Our Apartment on Our Daily Jog |
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