Week 17

Ia ora na tatou!

So this week was a blast as usual. First off I want to apologize if I
don't email back always. Emails here are a struggle. We do our emails
at the church and the internet runs off the phone service here. It's
pretty slow. Then we go to a member's house to finish our emails and
email President. We can't email President here because it'll crash the
computer. But currently those members that we go to left this island
to go to another motu. So we can't email President and it's just super
slow here.

So I don't have much to say, but this week we taught again in
Tahitian. Elder Barfuss and I are really noticing a change with our
Tahitian because of the reading we do in the Book of Mormon in
Tahitian. So that's actually really fun. The plane came thursday like
usual and the store guy (everyone just calls him papi pronounced like
poppy) he took the plane and will be gone for two weeks. Because of
that we can only drink water at our dinner appointments. The members
feel super bad because of that because Tahitians love their juice.
It's literally just syrup mixed with water and it's going to kill us
not really but it's pretty sugary. I think that's a word. It is in
french. Sugary...

Anyway I found a nacre this week which in English is
a mother of pearl. It's super pretty. I was pretty content when I
found it.

Currently we are working with three different inactives to stop their
addictions. They all want to stop. Yesterday we had a lesson with
Frère and Soeur Pouira and they got super pumped up when we said we
were there to help them keep the word of wisdom. I got pumped. Maybe I
just assumed they did too haha. But the longer I'm here the more I
realize that we're here to fortify the branch. Our objective is to
invite others to come unto Christ. Invite others. Not just members.
Not just non members. Others. Everyone. And that's what Elder Barfuss
and I do. And I love it so much. It's pretty hard sometimes because
it's almost the same routine each week but still it's important that
we're here.

That brings me to my little thought. We were teaching some inactives
and we read together Luke 15 which is awesome. I won't explain the
whole chapter but it includes The Prodigal Son parable, the 99 sheep
and the 1 lost, and the woman searching for her drachma. Basically
what we taught was that the Lord will never abandon us. Not ever. And
if we search for him he'll always be there too. Basically we have no
excuses haha. Because he's just always there:) I know that's true. And
I get to testify of it every single day. I truly am lucky.

Well yeah that's about it for this week.
Love you lots!
-Elder Christensen