Miracles on Top of Miracles

Ia ora na tatou pau roa. 

This week was just seriously amazing haha. First I'll start with Manarua's confirmation yesterday. His whole family came to church again and they're going to come back next week too! We now teach more members of their family. I absolutely love them to death. I love my sector.

So for those who don't know or for those who decided today to read of my emails haha, I'll give a little summary of where I am and what's going on. 

I'm in the sector of Tefana. It's located in the city of Faa'a on the island of Tahiti. My sector covers all of the city of Faa'a all the houses that are oceanside. In Tahiti there's really only one road that goes around all of Tahiti and all the houses that are oceanside. It's a little complicated to explain but if you really want to know. Go to google earth and look up Faa'a, Tahiti. But yeah I'm in the poorest sector in my zone and every time it rains hard, people get flooded pretty badly(let's just say that there are some people that illegally built there houses too close to the airport which is also in my sector). Anyway this is a relatively new sector and I opened it up with Elder Meyer then he left to an island called Raiatea where he will finish his mission, then I served with Elder Tepuhiarii. After six weeks he was put in a car because he has something called the goutte. It's awful haha. Now I'm here with Elder McLoughlin from Oregon and we're having a blast. We love the people that live here in Tefana. The members in our ward are just extraordinary. I never want to leave this place. It's truly like my second home. Every day gets better and better:) 

Currently we're working with another investigator named Armand. His brother is already a member too and he's just a great guy. He has so much support from his brother and his friend Tehau who's also a member. But Armand is afraid of his grandparents who are catholic. that's a pretty big deal here in Tahiti. If you change religions in your family, there is a pretty good chance that you get exiled and/or kicked out of your house because tahitian families always live together. Anyway. He's truly prepared by our Heavenly Father and he has a lot of faith. He goes to church every sunday and reads the Book of Mormon all the time. He's just truly great. 

Last thing. So Elder McLoughlin and I decided to go do some contacting in some neighbourhoods that we didn't really know(because our sector is huge) and at the first house we go to, we meet a girl who's from Hikueru(the little baby island I was on) her papi(grandpa) ran the super tiny store there at Hikueru. It's kinda crazy because both Elder McLoughlin and I served on Hikueru. We fixed a time to go back too. She has never talked to the missionaries either. Pretty crazy. 

SHout out to my sister Jaime who got married

Shout out to my best bud Andrew Rodriguez who got his mission call to Cincinnati Ohio!

Spiritual thought. 

Mosiah 16:8

But there is a ^aresurrection, therefore the grave hath no victory, and the sting of ^bdeath is swallowed up in Christ.

Love you all:)

-Elder Christensen

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Rain, Rain, Rain

Ia ora na 

Kaoha nui

Kura ora

Bonjour

That's right. That's hello in the four languages that exist in this mission

In order Tahitian, Marquesian, Pa'umotu, French

This mission is the coolest. 

It rained again a lot this week too

Truly a great week:) Apparently Obama is here in Tahiti on  a little island called Tetiaroa staying in the most expensive hotel ever. It's called the Brando. Y'all can do some research if you want. He'll be there for a month. 

But anyway back to missionary work. Great week. We had a baptism yesterday. I'll send you all pictures. It's for Manarua. He's 10 years old and his whole family came and it was incredible. We fixed the lessons with three more members of his family for this week. I love that family. They're super humble and pretty much live in a shack. Every time it rains hard here in Tefana, their house gets flooded really badly. That was pretty much the highlight of the week. Manarua was so excited that he was counting down the minutes until the baptism. After his baptism his little cousin was just in tears and none of us know why but it was so cute. I'll send a pic of that. 

Shout out to my sister Jaime who gets married this saturday. See you in a year sis and new brother-in-law. 

Honestly I absolutely am loving life. Love my comp, the ward, the investigators. I just feel so much love and joy when I'm here. I love this gospel, I love the Lord and his mercy. I just love life.

I hope you all have a great week. 

-Elder Christensen 

1. Me and the comp(also Manarua's cousin who couldn't stop crying)

3. Manarua, Tinitua and their parents

4. The Rua family

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ONE YEAR!!

Fastest year of my life. holy smokes. 

But Best year of my life. That's for sure. 

To commemorate this special occasion, I burned a shirt. I'm pretty happy right now. Actually I'm just ecstatic I love this sector so much. I love the members, my comp, the investigators, the bishop. Everyone is just awesome here. Truly the best place here in Faa'a. 

Anyway this week was great. We fixed another baptism for a kid named Teiki. He's 16 and his sister just got baptized in another ward and he was really touched by the baptism so now we teach him and he's awesome! Miracles are just coming like crazy here in Tefana. Our baptism for Manarua is still good. For those of you who don't know(everyone) he was already being taught by other missionaries before us but then our sector was created and he became our investigator. He was being taught by the ZLs of Faa'a(one of them is now our assistant and he's coming to the baptism. He was really happy to hear that Manarua is getting baptized.) but anyway for the longest time, Manarua's dad didn't want him to get baptized but once my comp Elder McLoughlin showed up we talked to his Dad and my comp worked his magic and his dad said yes! so everything is great with his family and now Manarua's little brother Tinitua wants to get baptized too. I'm just stoked for that family.

WE EAT SO MUCH HERE. the other day my comp looked at me and said, "Elder Je suis fiu de manger" translation of that Frahitian (french and tahitian) "Elder I am sick of eating" And it's true. We eat so much ugh. Luckily we bike so far every day. 

I'm loving life. the next year will be great. I love you all. the church is true. Pray lots, Heavenly Father listens to each one of our prayers. I know he does. I know he loves us so much. I love you all so much too. 

1. From left to right Tinitua, Willy, Manarua

2. Me and the Comp

3. Best Mami in the mission

Bonne semaine

-Elder Christensen

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One year in a few days!

Ia ora na tatou. 

So this week was just great. For starters we fixéd à baptism for a boy who is 10 years old. And he's awesome. We've been doing the lessons for a while and he's wanted to get baptized but his dad didnt want him too. But the other day we talked with his dad and he said that he accepts and says that it's the good path to take. So he's getting baptized in two weeks.  His whole family is going to come too:).

Turns out that à few weeks ago when I was sick, I had something called the dengue. Look it up it's awful. But Im better now haha. 

It rained à lot this week too. It just rainS all the time in Tefana. But it's fun stuff. It's sort of an excusé for people to let us in too. Tahitians are terrifiéd of rain too. Also here in Tahiti the french is not the most éducated french and almost every tahitian doesn't say elles when they're talking about multiple females. That Word (elles) means "them" but when it's only girls. Because him and her doesnt existe in Tahitian, everyone gets called called à guy here haha. 

So Elder McLoughlin is the funniest companion ive had so far. Maybe it's because I've been a missionary for a year on thursday and everything is funny but He's he's also just hilarious. He's from Oregon and he's been out for a year and and a half. We teach so well together honestly. I just love him. 

Our investigators are progressing like crazy. Theyre keeping their engagements and Im so happy now. There were.were . so many people at the chapelle too! Things are looking great here in Tefana. I love you all!

Bonne semaine

-Elder Christensen