Mon compagnon a la goutte (my companion has the goutte)

Ia ora na tatou. 

What an eventful week. So yeah my comp has a weird thing in his foot. Apparently its only for old people that ate too much pig in the childhood. something like that. Everyone in my ward is shocked that he got it at his age. But yeah. that's real fun. We think that he might get transfered because transfers are next monday and he can't walk...But that's nothing that can stop missionary work here in Tefana!!!!

last tuesday one of the assistants did a split with the our ZL elder Cooley(who is no longer sick after his intestine infection. this mission is filled with just crazy stuff) 

Anyway. He stayed over monday night and tuesday he pulls out his giant french bible(he's a convert since 2 years ago. He was a die hard catholic before. Also he's very french and I love him) anyway hes opens his bible and starts quoting something for when they do marriage ceremonies with me a my comp in the middle of our planning session. I lost it. It was so darn funny. I love the elders here. I've got a video but it's in french. I love this mission. It's very...unique haha.

A few weeks ago I combined the french and tahitian preach my gospel into one giant super preach my gospel. It's one of my most beautifl creations ever. I'm keeping it forever. 

Also apparently there's a word in tahitian for those who mix french and tahitian when they speak. the word is kaina. that's what my comp told me and I trust him haha. So yeah for those who speak french or served in france, speaking to me or a tahitian would be very difficult because we just mix the two languages together. It's kind of the coolest thing ever.

There was crazy flooding again here in Faa'a and because all my sector is oceanside, all of my sector got flooded. The water was up to peoples stomachs. They closed of the road where the floods were really bad. I took a picture. I'll send it to you all. I'm just praying that there won't be a cyclone soon, but I don't know. Our Bishop told us a story about when he was in middle school, he had 7 cyclones in one year and the year after, the temple was built here. He thinks something big is coming again. Maybe a second temple? haha. I'll keep you all up to date. 

We lost our most potential investigator last week.  She was supposed to get baptized tomorrow but she decided that she doesn't want to this week. We were going to move the date anyway because she keeps repushing lessons to other days. She's awesome and she's had so many spiritual experiences, but she just won't act on them:( not much that we can do. She is awesome and I love her to death but it's her choice and not ours. We going to give her a little while to reflect. We've agreed that it needs to be her choice. So my comp and I are going to let her be for a little while. 

But yeah. the mission is awesome. I'm doing great. Recovering from a little sickness I had this week but doing mighty fine right now.   Love you all

-Elder Christensen

Week 11 in Tefana

Ia ora na tatou!

Did you all know that Tefana means the bow?  

story for you all. So my comp is hurt right now. He's got a foot problem and can't really walk. So yesterday before church he called a member in our ward who does massages and asked him if he could give him a massage. So second hour rolls around church and we go take a room and this member starts pulling out this peppermint oil, monoï(oil that comes from the tiare tahiti (a very popular flower here) and coconut oil) anyway he starts just going at it and he takes 2 HOURS haha we ended up doing splits at church because i wanted to go to priesthood. I could see my comp the whole time because of the way the chapels are here. It's hard to explain but don't you worry. we were being obedient. But long story short, the massage did nothing haha. I'm seriously laughing right now because I love this country. It brings a smile to my face all the time.

That makes me think of the prophèt Gordon B. Hinckley, who's whole idea was just the importance of being positive and finding the joy. Things will always work out in the end. I live by that principle too. Keep hanging on, pray, read the scriptures, go to church, show our faith, and tout ira bien(all will go well) I love you all. Keep on keeping on. 

-Elder Christensen 

Time is an Illusion

Bonjour tout le monde. 

Not a whole lot to report to be honest. One of our zone leaders was suuuuuper sick this week. He has a infection in his intestines. So I stayed home with him and my comp went with the other ZL because I'm not yet authorized to drive in the mission. I just did the driving test and I passed, I just have to have an interview with president. Driving stick isn't super fun when you haven't touched a car in 11 months. But nevertheless, I passed. Other than that, this week went by super fast but not much happened honestly. I've been learning a lot about patience lately. The fact that our calendar is not the Lord's calendar which is hard sometimes, but also the Lord knows best.:) Things are going great with the new comp. I'm loving life. Loving the mission. I can now look out the window and see that I live on an island and I'm no longer shocked by it. That's life for me right now. I hope you are all doing well. I love you all. I'll attach some pics today. 

I found the pearl of great price in tahitian. I got to keep it. 
​Me and Elder Teps enjoying a nice casse-croûte(sandwich thing)