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

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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 ...

10/30/17 - Raiatea Week 5 - No Miles or Money, Car "Lift" Again, Jason Our New Amie, Papi in a Lawn Chair

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Iaorana tatou! So this week wasn't as action packed as we had hoped because we decided against going to Tahaa, but never fear fabulous things happened instead! I feel like this whole week was just us me and Soeur Nicholls trying our best and nothing really worked out, but we did get some cool stories.  Our Healthy Life Choices - Cake and Baguettes Out of Miles/Out of Money First of all we are already over our amount of kilometers we are allowed to go (a big no-no), so we decided to take some food with us into our sector and just eat lunch in the back of our car. Turns out we are also broke because we get paid after today, so all we really had in the house was a cake members made us on a whim (thank heavens) and a baguette. Ah, mission life. Anyway, we got a couple weird looks from people driving by to just see two sister missionaries eating chocolate cake in the trunk of their car, but I mean, if you don't get weird looks every once in a while are you even living? ...