IAORANA TO'U MAU HOA HERE
hello i love you all so much!! i just hope and pray yall can
feel my love emenating through this little email this week
i think this week i fell off the emotional rollercoaster. im
not even strapped in anymore just kinda careening into emotional limbo here.
hello!! help! just kidding all is well but wow SUCH a crazy week of so
many out of the ordinary happy moments and just the exact opposite hahaha but
thats the mission you know
mostly cause we fixed jasons baptism and he was SO READY oh
my gosh, he was just so so so excited to change his life and come unto christ.
this is no joke. he told us hes never ever felt like this in any other church
and that he knows this is the true church yadda yadda. his dad even accepted
his free agency and told him it was his choice. yay fasting! my goodness it was
so amazing! but THEN all of a sudden saturday we went over there and he was
so... different. he shared his thoughts about the story of lehi and the tree of
life, how he wants his family to come to christ also so we said "hey
invite them to your baptism" and he got this look on his face and said
"im not ready." oh man. we did everything in our power with this kid
to help him see that he really is ready, all he needs to do is keep the commandments
like he is doing and know how much god loves him.. but yep. he was solid on
this decision to cancel it. then we had a lot of other problems with members
and planning te next day and kilometers in the car and we were late to
everything.. and we were so so discouraged. sr dumouchel and i got so sad about
how we felt like nobody liked us hahaha and there was no one in the ward who
wants to help us. we were at the end of all the ropes we had
then we went to the house of our ward mission leader (who
looks like dwayne johnson so i call him dwayne johnson) for our meeting with
him. we got there and find a group of people standing around his couch with him
laying there like a mummy with bandages wrapped around his head. turns out, he
was in his garden, pulled out a plant and this giant giant boulder smashed
him!! i looked at sr dumouchel and said "we arent doing our meeting with
him like this." almost just after i whispered thaat to her, the mummy man
looked at me and couldnt even lift his head and said
"soeur durrant, c'est quoi la nouvelle?" (whats
the news)
i said "on what?"
he said "our investigators"
i dont know man. that hit me right to the center and i just
started bawling. heres this almost incapitated man who cant even move his head
to talk to me and has every excuse to take a day off, and yet with his limited
energy all he wants to do is help a few of God's precious children. among all
these capable people who can help, the only one who wanted to was the one who
was crushed by a rock. i was so touched by his willingness. he told me he was
so excited when he knew we were coming over that day because he wanted to hear
about what was going on chez les amis and for us :)
christ is everywhere
well ill get out of your hair, just know i love you all :)
we should have a baptism this saturday for pierre varney the bad fisherman who
cries a lot :) ahahaha i love that guy
keep up the good work; God's work. sending love from the
beautiful and warm raiatea :) sorry for everyone who got ttrapped in a snow
monster this week
"its clobbering time" -Dwayne johnson
hi tatou
sorr about last week mom i didnt write an email to you guys.
i know im the worst ill prolly never get married like aj and nicole
hahahaha sorry
I wish i could think of where to start hahaha uhh first of
all i bought a camera!!!! thank you so mucho its very very nice and quite pretty.
takes pretty pictures. ill try and send a lot if this computer will work with
me
its SO HOT i cant believe the snow over there in america!
what the crud! im having a hard time imagining that hahaha same as you for me.
i sleep without anything most of the time. that is, i sleep with clothes on
haha. thats all. but thats silly also because of the mosquitos. tired of having
itchy legs all the time.
hahaha mom what in the world, im so grateful you did not get
crushed by a train. that would have been super unfortunate for everyone. im
grateful for lots of men that come to pull your silly marshmallow car out of
the snow even if they think youre silly
congrats on school being closed!
i just got the letter mom wrote me on halloween. thanks a
ton hahaha im not sure how this all works, this letter sending thing. im trying
to write and send one soon also but theres no promises that will get there
before my mission ends
yikes! its january. the best month everrrrrrr. is there a
christmas party at the clue house soon? i cant believe that i left for nepal a
week ago. that trip felt so long to me and so many things happened. and i was
all all alone. the mission is considerably different but also kind of the same
:) on a greater and crazier scale where im not surrounded by people who drink
and smoke constantly
actually thats a lie theres so many smokers and drinkers
here
aj youre right this week was interesting as far as missionary
work. ill tell you one thing- when people wanna party they PARTY. it was
scary
we found a rat in the bathroom. it was surprising to me how
much i screamed, i mean i used to have a pet rat named skippy. this rat made me
feel a lot more afraid for my life. but dont worry, theres no sign of asthma or
exima or another awkward phase creeping up
teesh!! YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! your hair oh my goodness
maybe ill cut mine like that when i get home and youll have to help me do
it
ian hows it going? dont forget to write
you too isaac
aj are you still working at the clinic? man school. im just
so pumped to have like another year of no homework
congrats nicole you have rock out of the kitchen
kneads phase. moving on to crazy professor
dad i had a moment this week i just felt like i needed to
dump all of my problems on you cause you always knew how to solve them. :) you
rock dad. also i decided im gonna call you Dadowfax now
mom i just love you a lot. youre lookin real good. youre so
pretty and i feel like youve lost weight since i left? cest vrai?
youre all da best
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