one day, i got transferred to raiatea and had to drive
everywhere around tahiti late at night with some stls to the city to sleep for
the night. this one day, i started sneezing a whole ton and thought it was the
cat that i had just attemted to hold for 15 minutes. but then my whole entire
head began to pound and my nostrils refused to breathe and my eyes began to
sweat profusely. like i was gonna explode. this was at 1 oclock am and my temporary
companion was a crazy tahitian sister who was awake at the same time for some
reason, and she gave me a very intense head massage which hurt a lot but
actually made me go to sleep. tahitian remedies baby.
the next morning i got up at 4 so i could go fly to the
other island. but the assistants didnt give me my passport so we got on a
little different flight.
then i met my new companion, ate a giant tahitian breakfast,
and did work all day! i really loved it cause this place is BREATHTAKING and i like
missionary work and stuff but i swear i have never felt more close to death in
my life. by the end of the day i actually couldnt do more and i didnt eat my
giant steak that they gave me, i just laid on the table and died.
we went home soon after, i threw
up, and then i went to bed.
but holy smokes my companion is
sr james from eagle mountain utah who i am gonna kill in 6 weeks, and i really
am so blessed. how am i so lucky to be with this girl. shes so easygoing and
hilarious and we run around in the pouring rain and climb trees and stuff. put
our hands in the air like we just dont care. im bummed shes finishing real
soon.
we live in the cutest pink
house and sleep in the loft.
i really need to work on my tahitian if i wanna survive
here. bye bye french iaorana i te reo tahiti.
theres a random lady who lives
with us. her name is mami. shes been doing misisonary work undercover for 13
years hahahaha. so funny. we laugh a lot.
ive eaten a lot of coconuts
this week. we cut up some calf hearts for a service project. hashtag heart
breakers. nothing too new. i think we are going to go fishing today also. rad
dope rad. raiatea really is paradise. like i thought tahiti was beautiful but i
think this is the land of milk and honey or whatever. polynesians are nephites
too, so says a book i found in our house that i found.
theres a crazy person in our
ward who only talks about cake but she never actually has the cake she promised
us. im sick of this anticipation. theres also a crazy man named alfred who
calls from time to time to ask for the lessons, even though hes actually a
member who had his records taken out, then put back in, then i dont know. but
he calls us saying he wants the lessons and calls again 5 seconds after to say
he hates the book of mormon and he wants us to take it away from him.
everyone go hug my mom it was
her bday on friday!!!! and my little bro whos bday is the 29!!!! HUG THEM TIGHT
HUG THEM
2 Nephi 9:10
oh, comme elle est grande, la
bonte de notre Dieu.
it is grande. dont forget to be grateful because that is
what leads to true happiness!
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MOM! HAPPY BDAY nobody talked
about your bday to me so i dont know what you did? what did all of you do? me,
i ate some pie on friday night in your honor. hope it was really fun! really i
still have a package i meant to send so long ago and its still in my house in
papeari... so.. yeah. but it will be sent before christmas and then ill
probably send another one for christmas and then youll have double blessingssssssssssss
hahaha! oh my, i have so much
to say and no where to start. i havent ever had too much time to be detailed in
my letters but heres a story i never told from my last sector. this concerns
the story that augustine mentioned.
so there was a man in my old ward whos like 43 and has a 8
year old son. he teaches our class of amis and hes really awesome spiritual you
know, and seriously like 3 weeks into the mission i asked him if he wanted to
work with us. like a good missionary.
well he took this invitation seriously. WAY TOO SERIOUSLY;
and he spent a whole 2 weeks following us around. my comp acted natural and
indifferent so little new missionary me thought yay! lessons with members.
the next week we had an activity and he was talking to me.
my comp wasnt really w me in sound range officially cause i realize now she and
i were really disobediant but i was surrounded by babylon missionaries at the
time and was really confused. anyway, thats all finished now haha. but he
proceeded to profess his greatest hearts desires to me randomly and talked
about how he couldnt stop thinking about me, he even went to the temple and
told me about this great spiritual moment he had... with my... spirit? im not
even sure anymore because i didnt understand french well at that time. for this
reason, i stared at him for a long time wondering if it was my french or his
insanity that i wasnt understanding. this encouraged him to keep talking until
finally i stopped doubting what i was hearing and i panicked and was like ahh
no im a missionary and youre old and yadda yadda
hahahaha this is so funny now. but anyway i told the right
people about it, pres didnt ever transfer me cause i guess this happens often
in tahiti. but frere laborde continued until the end. one time he sent me a
message about how hed prayed that we would be eternally together.
and bishop called him as assistant dmp.
and he wrote me a 9 long page note before i left.
and he found our raiatea number
and sent me a message about carlos santano? i have no idea.
hahaha but that explains that
dramatic little time of my life. kind of everything is so dramatic here its
funny. thats kind of how the culture is, EXTREME EVERYTHING. its really so fun,
i think i have the funnest mission in the world but also i think its the
weirdest and most insane. i used to think it was just me not being able to
adjust to the culture but now i realize that actually people are insane and
thats not gonna change hahaha. i love them so much though. if they love you,
they will do literally anything for you. theyre like EAT AT MY HOUSE WE ARE
MAKING CREPES TONIGHT! TONIGHT CREPES EAT TAMAA QKDFMLQKJSFOIE
then if you dont come they save
you 5000 crepes and bring them to your house
im gonna get fat soon. Watch
out.
hey well im really happy that
you all got to go to uea weekend at a slot canyon!!! i miss that like the
dickens. i had a weird dream about ian last night that we were all chillin in a
hot tub and he was being himself. i dont remember what else happened but
something i miss being able to do is just chll with you guys. ive also gained a
big testimony of hard work and patience. these last 6 months have been without
doubt the hardest of my life. ive never questioned my testimony, myself, the
church, the world, and my hair more in my existence. at first i really wanted
to go home because of lots of companion, ward, and mostly self problems. but
now, after a third of my mission, which is crazy haha, i realize how much i am
supposed to be here even if success was hard to see at the beginning. ive
started to learn by actual and real experience that faith WILL LEAD TO
MIRACLES. even if sometimes the miracle is just you.
you are my miracles!!! sorry
for the cheesy email theyre important sometimes.
good luck facing the world this
week. are you having a haloween party? whos who this halloween? ive been
thinking about my costume and i think im gonna be sr james.
teesh haha sorry you have to wear
a face mask of rubber bands every night.
ian and isaac write meeee
dad im upset there is no more truck.
hey if you want pics youve
gotta send me more. actually i really would like some printed pics of all
things hahaha
aj good luck with all this
homework. what classes ar you in? dont have to think about that for a while.
lol
ian hows jr year treating ya?
actually what classes are you in?
movies? music? elections? news? what am i missin?
FROSTY HAPPY BIRTHDAY OAOA
FAAOAOARAA!!!!! YOURE GONNA BE A DEACON WHAT THE WEIRD
amen.
i would send way more pics but there is never ever enough
internet or time in tahiti. its just so slow and silly haha. youll see all of
them one day!!!
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