today ive been trying to be scary but ive only succeeded in
scaring my companion. but we have a lot of action plans to freak people out.
like... repentance. that is some scary business right there. no procrastination
all yall!!! watch it you could die like next week hahaha
uh. what happened this week? i dont even know where to
start. writing emails is so hard.
we ate with this crazy mami who taught us a halloween song:
"halloween, halloween, donner les bon bons! halloween halloween merci
halloween!!!" and then she ate a thousand ice cream cones and candies. we
asked her, "mami, do you like sugar?" she said "no i cant eat
very much its bad for me." as shes munching on an ice cream cone again.
she also said we cant speak if we dont speak tahitian, but when we spoke
tahitian, she replied in french. confused.
we taught so many lessons and found so many more people. the
thing about this culture is that normally it is SO EASY to start talking about
religion with people. they actually want to teach you most of the time all
about how god is everywhere and we breathe because of him and we should thank
him every single second of every single day.
then its usually pretty easy to get a lesson with someone.
they are so open and not worried about it. like 'yeah come over and we can talk
about god!'
once you get them to stop talking and talking and talking
about how grateful they are that god protects them, you can teach about all the
doctrine very simply and give them very simple engagements. they usually take
them. sometimes they are mad about the book of mormon that its not the bible.
but usually its fine
but then. when it comes to changing religion. oh dear.
hahaha
but we have seen lots of miracles! god prepares people and
its up to us to find them by our work and through the spirit. its so obvious. i
am beginning to really understand by experience the power of the process of
faith, planning, and ACTION. action by prayer and by postivity. even if things
dont go your way, you DO NOT STOP trying to do the will of god. its the only
intelligent thing to do.
this week we were helping tons of women cut some flowers for
a service project that we didnt wanna go to. we didnt think it was going to be
very effective and we had better things to do, but for some reason we ended up
going because we felt like we should every time we tried to change. at this
project, we met a lady and found out that she is actually the mom of a young
boy we teach! she told us all about how she loves that hes reading the book of
mormon and that shes proud of him. we were like, 'and you dont want the lessons
with him?' she was like 'YES I WANT THEM' almost violently. hahaha oh man it
was funny. i think she will get baptised prolly
but yeah.
we are individuals.
god looks at us as such.
go help one person today. :) the work of god continues
through his children. be of the army.
by the way for halloween i am kevin and sr james is lebron.
ill send pics next week
lolz love you all dont be nul keep rigoling.
hahahah after i read dads email and understood the costumes
i died!!! that is amazing you guys are so creative. hahahaha the one where
teesh is laying on the ground as an ice cube is just... the best.
well i am sorry for aj who almost died this week because of
finals. yikes. i helped my comp choose her classes for january when she goes
back to school.. that was weird. dont really know what school is anymore.
im also happy that dad had the experience of scooping a
thousand carrots with the treacherous carrot shovel!!!! that was rad i want a
shovel for carrots
dad! also is is bishop the one that told you to read the
shackleton book? because i totally know what that is. he gave a whole byc on
shackleton one time and willpower and stuff. putting that on my list to read
when i get home. this list is really long and mostly consists of churchy stuff
like cs lewis. but yeah thanks for that letter i got it this week
hi and please make me a movie book music list someone its
not gonna distract me i promise i just wanna know whats happening
like elections, i didnt vote because i have 00000 ZERO idea
whats going on. i cant even say i have any sort of opinion or knowledge.
i vote jesus
mom hahaha that was so funny seeing your high school friend
because we were going to the bathroom somewhere and these people came walking
towards us like they were our best friends! i kind of recognized the boy
because id met him. one time for like 5 minutes. but she was talking twenty
miles a minute about how she wanted to meet me and i was already surprised they
were saying english words... im sure i had the most confused look on my face.
especially when she yelled AND I KNOW YOUR MOM!!! hahaha it came together after
a minute but i was so lost for just a bit.
anyway, super cool family. she seemed really outgoing
actually and very friendly! she has very blue contacts.
uh. i dont know what else i wanna say. news... hm. tahiti
ruins skin. or my skin is just fragile. i have had so many weird things and
ACNE bad bad bad.
oh and the egberts send me a package hahaha SO MUCH CANDY! i
guess they still claim me. no idea about ryan though. honestly thats my honest
and final answer
sr james is finishing real soon. yall should go visit her if
you ever go to eagle mountain in december. cause i love her. best comp
ever
oh! and if youre sending christmas stuff... can i ask for
music and skirts? and just funny things. just go find weird stuff. ;)
and send me more photos of my past life and your new
life
what do yall want for cmas
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