Que des solutions 9/4/17

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