I'm just going to say that whatever I did in the pre-existence was good because I got put in the best sector ever. All the members are awesome and so are our amis (investigators)
So my first sector is called Hitia'a. It's sorta second world honestly. It's not very close to Papeete and I'm pretty happy about that actually. Faa'a and Papeete remind me a lot of Mexico and the city. My area is on the other side of Tahiti. You can look up a picture somewhere and get a better idea of where I'm at. My companion is Elder Sovereign and he's awesome!! He's been out for about 8 months now. He started his mission in Bora Bora and this is his second sector. He'll train me for 12 weeks then probably get transfered out somewhere. He's from Gilbert, Arizona and he came on his mission right after high school.
My sector was actually one of the hardest sectors here until about 6 weeks ago when Elder Sovereign came in. Currently we have 9 baptisms fixed and we just got three new investigators last week so that's super exciting. (currently I'm emailing from a church building that's in the sector next to us. We live with the two zone leaders and they're so cool.
Some fun facts. Everyone here loves to eat dog but they don't eat it that often but I was told to choose which puppy I wanted to eat and I just laughed/cried on the inside. All the kids here speak terrible french apparently. I only know that because my companion told me. They all call me peter parker/ spiderman and they call my comp superman. I also got called hulk yesterday and I was really confused because I don't at all resemble the jolly green giant on steroids. It's rained every single day here so I've been soaked every single day.
The other night I ate sashimi and it was amazing. I thought I would hate it but it's pretty darn good. I ate this amazing fruit called a rambuton(i think that's how it's spelled) and its unlike any other fruit ive ever had. I'll send a picture.
Last week an investigator that I've never met asked If I would baptize her. I said yes of of course but I was really confused as to why she asked me.
Also some people can't say my name because it's either too long or too hard. Some people call me Elder Christ...
This weekend we have a marriage between Alma and Ruths and then our investigator (Ruths) will get baptized that same day.
For the next 6 sundays we will be traveling the around all of the stakes in Tahiti to sing for a concert thing and yesterday I got to see all my MTC buddies. That was super fun.
I was reading in PMG the section about Christlike attributes and I decided I would try to be more diligent. It's important to work hard as a missionary but diligence is harder. For Christ, he never stopped being diligent especially when things got hard. I really think we can all apply that into our lives. Basically the lesson I learned and am still learning is that we need to try our best to be like Jesus Christ. Love you all!!!
Elder Christensen (peter parker)
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