Iaorana tatou! This week was super awesome, but if I'm being honest I forgot most of it... apologies  to my family, friends, and future posterity.  For pday we watched a church movie with our district which would have been awesome, but the computer kept starting the movie over... oh well. We got to see everyone when they're at their worst, so it was a good time.  We got to go to the temple this week! It's such a privilege to go, and we really enjoyed it! We tried to take pictures at the end on self timer... it kind of worked, but there are some epic fails coming your way. ;)  I had my first STL split as the STL ( sister training leader), and it was so fun! It's always a party to get to see how other people teach and work. We might have gotten lost a couple times, and I might have said a few utterly stupid things, but life goes on. We ended up getting pizza at the end and celebrating. Good times.  Ok, Best for last: the...

Iaorana Tatou! So I totally wrote out a nice and long, glorious email with stories and everything, and then it all got deleted and now I hate everything. I'm so mad. Pas grave, it just wasn't meant to be!  So this week was really weird. We never had just a normal day. In summary: Soeur Fowers ran away from all the dogs, and I ran away from all the drunk people. I ate fish eyes for the first time, and it's just as disgusting as it looks. You don't want to know what this is... Soeur Fowers has a hidden talent of being able to play anything on a child's music recorder flute thing that she found randomly in the house. Soeur Fowers' Wonderful Hammock A member assumed that R__ was getting baptized soon because we've had a lot of lessons with him and literally said to his face, "Oh, you've have 5 lessons so far? So you'll be baptized soon, right?" Don't ask me how we got out of that one because to this day I s...

Iaorana tatou! 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.  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! Inside McDonald's - Bonding with Your Food  Guess who got...

​Hello everyone!!! This week has been crazy awesome so I hope I can get it all in!  Sunday  was probably the best day of my life. Because it was Easter we had an extra devotional from DALLIN H. OAKS!!! (One of the twelve apostles of the Lord) (See below.)  Something that he said that really stood out to me is that death is not the conclusion of our identity. When we die we are still the same person and have the same strengths and weaknesses we had when we were alive.  The normal  Sunday  devotional was given by SHERRI DEW! (She was a member of the relief society general presidency years ago and has written several books.) Her talk was probably one of the most inspiring things I've heard in a while. She spoke of the fact that she has never been married and that has been a hardship for her. She's prayed for 30+ years about why she is still unmarried and has not gotten an answer that satisfies her. She assured us that questions are good.  Ques...

Bonjour everyone! So to clear up any confusion, "soeur" is in fact pronounced SIR. Every time I hear my name, Soeur Sellers, I feel like a knight. ;) Soeur Kendall's awesome and also going to Tahiti.  In our district we have 10 Missionaries (4 sisters and 6 elders). The other sisters are going to Leon France and won't stay for the full NINE WEEKS WE ARE HERE! We are doing six weeks of French and three weeks of Tahitian.  Everything is awesome here! The dork dot came off as soon as possible... Pretty much everyone would say,  "Welcome to the MTC," and it slowly drove me insane. ;) For those of you who don't know, a dork dot is a little round orange sticker they put on your name tag for the first day you are here so people know that you are new and can help you.  We have made a couple mistakes (going to lunch at the wrong time and getting lost pretty much all the time), but all in all it's been a great experience. So all of my books weigh l...