Iaorana Tatou!!! This week was honestly one of the best weeks of my mission! We have been working so hard this transfer and the Lord is seeing fit to bless us! First of all we found 4 new amis who are so amazing! The first two are a young couple who are living together who randomly came to church a couple weeks ago even though they aren't members. They're so freaking cute and we started teaching them this week, and later she called us and asked us to come and teach her father the Plan of Salvation because she liked it so much! The other two are references from some less active members who are starting to come back to church. Honestly he has been so prepared by God to change his life around like his older brother (the member who gave us the reference) and we can't wait to start teaching him and his son! We dropped by to see if we could start teaching them and he literally had a cake made for us and they treated us like queens. They're so cute!!! Anoth...

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! So this week was amazing! First of all, last Pday was so fun. We went to a beach and hung out with Soeur ma's district. After we came back and played some volleyball with everyone. Newsflash: I'm still really bad at volleyball, and may or may not have hit it into the ocean. Thankfully it didn't go in past our knees so an elder sacrificed to go in to get it. That night we had a Soirée Famillial that was so fun! I had never met this family, but honestly they're the best. They even fed us waffles for dessert! I haven't had waffles in who knows how long, and Soeur Fowers can testify that just the night before I said "I wish we had waffles." Moral of the story: God looks after his missionaries. We got a new DMP this week (ward mission leader), and he's already doing such a good job! He loves working with us and has managed to get a lot of our ward involved! He's very good at making sure people feel loved and valued. ...

Iaorana Tatou!!! So much has happened this week and to be honest I forgot about 95% of it. Desolé. In summary: we fixed the baptism of V_, a family we've been teaching for a while ALL came to church for the first time, T_ is officially not interested but L_ still wants the lessons, we saw a crazy chicken (more on that later), we went to V_'s house and looked at pictures of Jerusalem TWICE and she agreed to talk with Soeur Ma (her missionaries), and we found out an amie we had been teaching for a long time is actually a member. 😩 In other words this week was actually great. V_ is the daughter of less active parents who are starting to come back to church and she's so excited to get baptized! She's nine and didn't really grow up with the gospel so it's been so fun to see her learn and grow!!!  Totally Adorable V_ Ok, honestly everything was so awesome this week, but the real highlight of this week came from a really stressed out rooster...

Iaorana Tatou!!! 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) 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 ...

Iaorana Tatou!   The sunset last night This last week continued to be hard for our amis, but we're still positive and happy! We did have a lot of cool things happen this week, like we had a muli-zone sisters conference with Soeur Fox (our mission president's wife). It was very inspiring and at the end we all colored some notes we could give to our amis or while contacting. It was so funny because you would never find coloring as part of the schedule at an Elders conference. So a miracle that happened this week was we went to the hospital with some sisters to get some tests done (because we're the missionary taxi, but we don't mind) and normally we thought we were just going to go and drop them off, but we decided to stay and Soeur Bready struck up a conversation with someone in the waiting room. Turns out she has cancer and was there to go through some tests. We continued talking and found out that she actually took the missionary lesson...

Iaorana tatou! So if we're being honest this week was really hard. It rained for three days straight (like we are in a typhoon kind of rain) and that really kills missionary work. Normally we average from 10-11 lessons a week and this week we had 4. So crazy. We did have our multi-zone conference though and that was awesome! We talked a lot about maximizing our day and finding ways to be busy when we don't have lessons! It was a really good zone conference.  Another thing that hit us kinda hard this week is now some of our amis who we've been teaching are now going to the Catholic church and are kind of avoiding us, our fixed baptisms aren't coming to church, and another family started avoiding us. Satan's trying really hard to get us down, but we're not going to stop working!  Anyway, that's pretty much our week. Sorry it's so short and boring to read about!!! I also didn't take any pictures this week, so I'm a punk. I ...