11/6/17 Raiatea Week 6 - Haiwiki Nui 2017, Mud and Teaching

Iaorana Tatou!

Our Church Building in a Downpour

Yet Another Mud Story

Ok, so you know how last week we got stuck in the mud a couple times? Storytime: Once upon a time Soeur Sellers and Soeur Nicholls foolishly missed a Faatamaaraa (a meal with members) because of a miscommunication, so they decided one day to pop in and apologize. Little did they know they had no idea where they were going and ended up crossing two rivers and getting stuck in the mud in front of someones house. They were so worried that they would have to call someone to come help them when the owner came out and helped them out of his front yard. Way to go, J_! We really appreciated it. They ended up not going to see that family but decided to try giving out invitations to English class.

Vicious Dog Flashbacks and Breaking Trees

While on their way to hand out invitations they saw another road and decided to look for people who lived there where they almost got eaten by dogs (thank heavens the chain was not longer... need I say more?), and then quickly found themselves on a path where they could not turn around because of the mud... and it was looking less and less likely that they

would find a good spot to turn around on. Soeur Sellers found a decent spot and went for it, only to get stuck in the mud for a second time that day. Good thing Soeur Nicholls is a quick thinker and saw the only way to go out was through a couple trees which she quickly broke enough so they could get out. Moral of the story: Stay off of the sketchy roads! We might need to start keeping a machete in the car... Just kidding. ;)

From a letter from Lindsay to her niece...

(Right now we're teaching about 5 people, but we meet new people everyday who might want to learn the gospel. I don't get to go to the temple right now, we don't have one on the island I'm on. I might get to go if I go back to the main island of Tahiti.)

No Halloween, but Three-Day Boat Races

Selfie at Haiwiki Nui

So halloween was uneventful here, but I hope you all went crazy and ate tons of candy. We did go crazy for the Hawaiki Nui though, and it was AWESOME! So everything pretty much shut down for this huge event. So the racers go from Huahine to Raiatea, around Tahaa and to Bora Bora. It is over the course of three days I think and everyone gets super crazy. We joined in on the craziness and bought fancy t-shirts.

So Soeur Nicholls and I have survived one round of transfers unscathed... We're staying together! We're so excited to stay here for at least another six weeks!

Sister Wissocq Leaves for France

Soeur Wissocq went home this week which is super sad and weird because she's my trainer, but we had a party just before district meeting and can I say, missionaries know how to party. I think we had like four different kinds of cakes and way more food that we could eat.