I Can't Count Anymore

Ia ora na tatou. 

I hope you are all catching the Christmas spirit back home because it's 86 degrees here. With 80 percent humidity. That might be a lie but I can drink the air here and it's awesome haha. 

to be honest I completely forgot it was Thanksgiving until carrefour( the local supermarket) had a "black friday sale" we saw signs everywhere for it. Then I realized that I missed Thanksgiving. Ah well. I won't miss Christmas that's for sure. 

Basically this week was good and kinda slow. Not too much to report. We fixed a baptism and that's super exciting but we'll see if that happens. We love our investigator (Tahéna) but she's just a little scared. Which is normal. I don't blame her. She's just afraid that she'll fall again once she's a member of the church. She'll be okay though. 

I also did a split with our district leader. He's just the best. Elder Meyer is his name. I love him. 

I was reading in the Book of Mormon in Tahitian and it was chapter 15. Just a great chapter. It talks about how we need to listen to the prophet. I'd like to bear my testimony that in listening to the prophet, and putting into practice his words, we will inherit the kingdom of God. It's so simple! He is called by God to guide us and lead us so that we can find the correct path, which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In doing those things, I know that we can obtain all that which our Heavenly Father has in store for us. I love you all. And I know this church is true. And I leave these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Bonne semaine:)

-Elder Christensen

Week 26

Ia ora na tatou 

Eaha to'outou huru teie mahana?

That means how are you all doing today in Tahitian. I can sort of speak the language I was half called to speak. 

It's hot here. 

Anyway this week was full of just interesting things. To start Elder Murdock and I found out that we teach a drug dealer:) We still love her to death we were just kinda shocked. Also last week we found this Papi (a papi is a very old Tahitian man) who only speaks Tahitian and let me tell you all that teaching a papi in tahitian is already hard and my tahitian is getting there but there's a lot to work on still especially concerning comprehension but also this papi is convinced that there were only three prophets who ever lived. Amos, Isaiah, and Joel. He reads out of the Tahitian Bible only. I'm not going to say that the Tahitian Bible is an abomination, but it's just been changed so so so so so much. It's made by Jehovah's Witnesses and it's just not the same bible we have. But anyway there's that trial. Jk this papi is super nice. 

It's mango season.....(mangos are his favourite)

Also yesterday at the chapel the sacrament bread was banana bread...Apparently they do that every fast sunday. All I'm going to say is that they broke it into the biggest pieces I have ever seen for sacrament bread. 

Our investigators are doing great. We think she will get baptized if she keeps doing the things she's doing. The people we teach are just great.

Spiritual thought for the week. We had a zone meeting and our zone leaders gave the training and talked about the little things in our lives as missionaries. I thought it was funny because I say all the time to investigators that they need to recognize the little blessings in their lives and also they need to do the little things to grow their r faith. It was only until friday that I finally realized how important that is. I definitely felt that I needed to put that into practice as a missionary here in French Polynesia. But it's true. It's all the little things that matter. Little blessings and little actions that we do that augment our faith are so so so important for our mortal progression.

So that's pretty much it. 

I love you all so much. 

-Elder Christensen

I'm Bad at Counting Weeks

SOOOOo

Awesome week. We started it off with a multi zone conference with the newest member of the 70 for the pacific area. (For those of you who have no clue what that is, he's a leader of our church specifically assigned to the pacific area with two other leaders. They visit here often and talk to the missionaries and the church leaders here in Tahiti.)

His name is Elder Cardon. He visited us and we had a big conference thing that lasted all day long. What he talked about was so awesome. Basically what I learned is that I need to be more bold when extending commitments. We teach a message that saves lives!! Why shouldn't I be bold? It was awesome.

Then the next day we went to the Temple. I took lots of pics outside and it was just an awesome morning. Something I really needed. I know that the Temple is the house of God. And I know that the work we do inside is truly necessary for those who didn't have a chance in this life to accept this gospel. 

I'll share two experiences of this week. 

1. We thought that one of our investigators Here(which means love) didn't go to church. We talked to him. It turns out he did but he came late and only ended up staying for the second our with the old papi's in Tahitian. He told us that He absolutely loved it and wants to go back. Things are looking up for him. We fixed his baptism for the 10 December.

2. We just started teaching this lady named Venise. Her sister is a member and she used to take the lessons a long time ago. As soon as we started the lesson right after the prayer, she just started to cry. She told us that she felt this heat in her chest. Basically we explained to her that it's the Holy Ghost testifying that what she's doing is the right thing. She's awesome.

also with her, during the lesson she told us that she just started her new job and that a week before when we passed by the first time, the minute we left(after we had fixed a lesson) she got a call that she got accepted for the new job. Basically miracles are flowing like sweat. (That's a lot because it's super hot here)

So yeah the mission is awesome. 

Just finished 3 nephi in French. 

Payed 14 dollars for mcdonalds. 

The dogs here only respond to tahitian when you tell them to sit. I said A parahi to Here's dog and he sat. I love that dog. He chassed chickens away from us. 

The Gospel is true. The Book of Mormon is true. I love it here. I love you all.

-Elder Christensen