gins. its been a while. sorry i
stink at this group email thing
long story short ive been in orofero for 3 weeks now with sr
meloen, shes from poitiers france (like in the southwest i think) and shes
officially in the last 3 weeks
1 explained all of her favorite mangas to me
2 converted me to korean pop music (we dont listen to it she
just talks about it. shes really persuasive ok)
3 taught me a lot of french and corrected my french
4 watched me as i ran circles in the yard
5 managed to acquire like 15 new stuffed animals
6 become a real pal. its sick having a french comp en fin,
shes so funny i love her
7 drawn me like 21 pictures. shes really good at this manga
thing though really
we finish the same day in 9 weeks so its nice having someone
who understands and who i can just freak out with. we live alone just us two
for right now in a nice little house of which the toilet didnt work for a
minute but now it does!!! whew. we were in trouble for a second.
and honestly the first 2. 7 weeks were kinda rough and life is different here,
i guess i wasnt as ready to be transferred as i thought. but then i had a
realization this week that God has sent me to every single one of my areas for
specific reasons that i found out later so why not this one too. so i chased
away my bad attitude and all is well now :) and this week was nuts. we went on
2 splits, had a lot of lessons cancelled but met some really rad new peeps, and
did just weird thingssssss i think ive never had such a weird week of all the
mission.
blague thats a lie. but it was
funny lol
-i translated pokemon cards
into french for a kid who just.. needs to play his pokemon. ill try and send
some pics of the cards they were so mega
theres a man in our area who is just insane. his name is
Temeio (miracle in tahitian) and sometimes he wears a santa hat and rolls
around on his scooter bike... when he sees our car, he comes right directly in
front of it so i have to hit the brakes super hard as to not kill the man. then
he makes me roll down the window and he talks to us about how he wants the
lessons but he really wants to take us to the cinema and wont leave until we
plan a lesson with him. so we do but then to protect ourselves from harm we
dont go. but this week he showed up at our house to ask us why we didnt come
and that was just scarzeyyyyy
so we got a lock! yay
it rained a cycloon on us this
week. ive never been so cold in all of my mission.
but i love the rain actually and it is always better here because there are so
many rainbows
one of the days this week i learned that God loved me.
again. because we went a few days with not very much food and just ate a
buttload of carrots cause thats mostly all we had. hahaha. but then a random
person in our ward just called us and said he had a bag of cereal he wanted to
give us. i still dont really understand how that happened but i was SO PUMPED
because there were 2 boxes of SPECIAL KKKKKKKKK
shoutout to my mom kk. :)
we also didnt have any way to
call people on our phone because we didnt have any more money to buy credit.
but we somehow made it work and did some splits.
i didnt crash the car yet.. i
might have grazed part of a porch but its not a big deal.
we crossed a river
we put our feet in the
ocean and watched some surfers
the best people ever taught me how to make sushi. heck it
was a blasty blast. ive never eaten so much fish in my life. i think im a shark
now
we fixed 2 baptismal dates of
two very unlikely men... they are both so soso shy and dont talk very much but
voila, the spirit does apparently. thanks spirit.
jennifer from oremu got baptised this week after many
difficulties with the family it pulled through!!!! im so proud of her, shes 10
and shes just like my little tahitian sister. heck i love her so much. it was
fun to go back and see that and see spencer my daughter
i read a talk this week that
summed up something that i want to become. it was called "se soucier de
chacun" in french... i think that translates to "to worry about each
person." anywho its by joseph b wirthlin from conf general april 2008. he
was talking about thomas s monson and he said (indirect quote)
"if it is flattering for
him that many among the great and powerful men of this world know him and honor
him, it is maybe an even greater homage that many of the most humble and modest
call him their friend."
whoooooah. i just dun got
really touched when i read that. i was just remembering all the friends ive
made on the mish, the people who became more than just "a companion"
or "an investigator" or "a tahitian lady." to me now this
is my home, and these are my people. i hope maybe im tan enough to fit in with
them now but if i wasnt, it wouldnt matter. because they taught me something i
wont and cant forget: everyone is on the same line, we just move along this
line together and God looks at us all in the same way: as his children and as
his friends, i think, or he wouldnt love us so much. i remembered also
something that one of my mtc teachers told us from what feels like 45 years
ago, that we werent going out there to do anything extremely crazy; we were
going out to make new friends.
because a true friend is
someone who helps you be better and happier.
faarahi te aroha!!!! (spread
the love) until next time
oh ps please everyone go hug my brother Ian its his birthday
on the 8th!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY IAN
