Tale of two countries: i te faaipoipo no i te mau uri taata 12/26/16

hi again friends!!! oh my goodness i just saw the cutest pic of aj and nicole and i almost threw up cuz half of me thought it was so adorable and the other half was like OH MY GOSH MY BROTHER IS GETTING MARRIED. my brother who used to put a toy sword in his underwear

that was a weird feeling. but aj and nicole im so happy for you!! i really dont like missing things and thats probably why i seem like im not excited about it but really in reality i have fomo (fear of missing out) and im just gonna probably be the most dedicated missionary ever tomorrow and not even think about it. the music..; the food.. the TEMPLE!!! the family... the glory... the endless line of smiling people.. you can replay the whole wedding when i get home ok? :) i love marriage! esp temple marriage. ive come to appreciate it so much here on my mission cause people just ignore marriage here and have a 16 kids before they tie the knot. but its such an important step in life if you dont want giant problems later on. good job my friends.

oh my gosh!! thanks for skyping me yesterday!!!! im so so grateful i got to talk to you guys and see your faces even though the connection was bad, the ipad died, there were crazy tahitians everywhere, and i couldnt hear you or think of funny stories to tell you in the moment (sorry) i noticed lots has changed (like the living room and isaac is ginormous and ian is even more ginormous... and marriage) but also not really anything at all. youre all the same exact people. that was cool to hear your voices again and see that mom still chews her gum intensely. aj yawns the same and isaac and teesh just say funny stuff out of no where. ian im proud of you for your 1 date per month. here we try to do 22 lessons each week, maybe we will have a challenge. for every week of lessons we do you have to do .26 that amount of dates per month. that makes 5.72 dates per month. can you do it? yes you can. hahahaha

heres some stuff that i wanted to tell you yesterday but i forgot to cause im an awkward skyper

1: what you saw from the people there was very very accurate of how it is. they are very persistent if they have a goal (IF they have a goal haha). those members really had a goal to talk to you guys even if you did not understand them or vise versa hahaha. they think on a very small scale. this little island is all they know, a lot of them, and it is SO CRAZY for some of them to think that we left our homeland to come thousands of miles away to be white kids speaking an ancient island language. so they wanted to see real americans in a real american house who speak american hahaha. they love you

2: tahitian sounds like singing haha thats very nice of you, hm i havent ever thought of it that way, ive thought of it mostly like smacking your lips repeatedly as you say all the vowel noises over and over. tahitian is seriously so much fun though i have found a great love for this language and my goal is to be fluent in it before october of 2017. it makes me laugh so hard, the way they create words out of the small tiny words they have already. its a blessing im here and we speak more of it here. the thing is, almost everyone speaks at least a little french here and they are accustomed to speaking french with the popaa (white people) but people over 30 years usually prefer and understand tahitian more. so generally no one starts convos with me in tahitian but then i start speaking tahitian its so funny to see the change of attitude. theyre like YYYEH this white girl speaks tahitian and then they actually want to listen haha. that gives a lot of desire to learn it also cause its so fun to surprise people.

heres some fun ones

puaa horo fenua

pig run land = horse

farau monamona

flour sweet = cake

haa toitoi raa mea

to make cold noun thing = fridge

uri taata

dog man = monkey

puaa niho

pig teeth = goat

manu patia

bird stab = bee

manu reva

bird fly = airplane (dont birds already fly?)

tahaa = naked (the name of an island next to us) (i hope i never go there)

fare maamaa

house crazy = insane asylumn

3: mom thats really nice of you to say my face looks thinner hahah thanks mom. i feel like a lard most of the time because we eat so much food. i said we eat lots of meat and that was true. all meals either have rice or fries also. theres not too much variety but most of it isnt too gross. the ham is weird and the original tahitian food is bad stuff for the bowels. theres a lot of cream in the food also. they put cream on pizza. also they love all kinds of sauce. ive never seen anyone contest dad in ketchup eating except a tahitian man named maui paraurahi. i love the raw fish cause they mix it with limes, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, carrots, and then they put coconut milk in it. on rice. thats my favorite thing here and its sad cause we dont have fresh fish often in utah thats not from lakes! its seriously not the same thing. fruits here are either super good or just soooooooooooooper bad and give you a little reesty feeling for a few days. theres some strange stuff i have no idea what they are called in english but theyre nasty.

anyway thanks to my running shoes, insanity videos, and my jumprope i think im staying sort of in shape hahaha. and planks. those are nice

so i dont have much time left but GOOD LUCK TOMORROW EVERYONE have a good vacation and in your endless free time please answer these questions i didnt have time to ask

- why was light and dark created on the 3rd day in temple vids and not the 1st day?

- when is moana coming out in tahitian?

- when did isaac get glasses and is he as blind as mom?

- does teesh still play the piano?

- whats the theme song of the wedding?

- is ian going to do something funny at the wedding?

- whats the stupidest thing theo has done since ive been gone?

- what happend to all the cats?

- whats the latest mom phrase? do you still all say "GET IT"

- does dad have really grey hair yet?

- what is nicoles favorite song?

ill think of more later