Iaorana Tatou!!!
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| My Fille |
So I announced the pregnancy last
week and this week it's official! It's a girl! (no duh, but just so you
know...) My daughter (the sister I will be training) is so AWESOME!!! I
love her so much already and it's only the first week! Her name is Soeur
Fowers (like flowers without the L as literally ALL the Tahitians have
noticed) and she's from Georgia. She's super funny and already a really
incredible missionary, so I'm so excited to serve with her! (also: she
takes a lot of pictures, so I will be using this to my advantage)
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| First Day |
If
anything tells you about how awesome she is it will be the fact that
her second day she gave a talk in front of the stake. And she killed
it!!! We had a open house at the church for the whole stake and all the
missionaries gave 10 minute talks about a part in the Gospel of Christ
(Faith, repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to
the end) and we got to talk about receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost.
In preparing for this talk I asked her how much she wanted to do (since
it was her second day) and I was expecting like "can I just share my
testimony at the end?" but not ma fille! She was a boss and talked about
the difference between the Holy Ghost and the gift of the Holy Ghost
AND bore her testimony. Like a boss.
This Saturday
we had a baptism in the Ward of Pirae 1 (the ward of the sisters who
live in our house), and we thought we would support them by coming to
the baptism. Little did we know we had the support of the whole mission!
Over 20 missionaries came AND a couple missionary AND President and
Soeur Fox. I swear there were more missionaries there than normal
people. There were so many missionaries there that when we all sang
during the time while she changed into dry clothes we had a full on
choir. It was so cool!
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| The army of companions of Soeur Sellers. We're all in the same district. :) |
So last night something
happened to poor Soeur Kaufusi what all sister missionaries fear more
than anything else... Her skirt got stuck in the tires of her bike.
Thank heavens she was right outside of our apartment because we had to
surgically remove her skirt using scissors and brute force. It was the
stuff of nightmares and once again I am reminded why I am so lucky to be
in a car sector.
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| Officially everyone in our apartment has a pareo--a piece of fabric you can tie to make a skirt. They're so comfy!!! |
So something cool that
happened this week was that we were just outside our apartment doing
language study by the ocean (it's proven to help your Tahitian if you
study within sight and sound of the ocean. True story) when this lady
and her daughter who is about 2 years old just came up and started
talking to us. She had never seen the missionaries before but started
talking to us about her life and her beliefs. It was so crazy because
we rarely have people just come up to us like that. We're going to her
house next week with Soeur Ma (because she lives in their sector) and
we're hoping she'll agree to talk to them.
When
things like that happen it just makes me think about how much God loves
each of his children and how he wants each of us to return to him. As
missionaries that is our ultimate goal: to help others make it back to
their Father in Heaven. I'm so grateful to be out on a mission and to be
working with my Father to help His children here on earth!
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