Bonjour Tout le Monde!!!
So guess what!! Remember when they
filmed me and Soeur Carter when we were at Papara? So I still haven't heard any
news but they used a tiny clip from what they filmed in a video about the first
Sister Missionaries!
Go to the end - 8:00 and the clip of
me and Soeur Carter is like at 8:12!
Its literally like 1 second but hey!
I'm in a video! haha
Other than that, this week was a
good one!
Tuesday, we had interviews with
President which was cool. When we had my interview he was like, so we're going
to do this a little backwards- What advice do you have for me? I was like
uhhhh.... what? Ha ha ha so that was interesting but helpful at the same time.
We also got to see one of our golden
investigators, Rosemonde! Remember her? She's the one that came to church by
herself to find us because we didn't pass by her house. Well, she was at
Papeete for a few weeks so we finally got to see her again Tuesday night. She just started working and her job hours are
terrible so she works Monday- Saturday from like 4 am- 7 pm. So we were a
little scared that we wouldn't be able to see her anymore but she was like heck
no, I need you guys! Ha ha we love her.
We saw her Tuesday AND she wanted us
to come Thursday so things are going really well with her. Her only
obstacle is coming to church on Sunday. It's at 7:30 so it's hard for her to
wake up and get her THREE little kids to church. Her boyfriend still hasn't
accepted to see us BUT he did tell her that he wanted to stop smoking so that's
a good sign!
We had a great lesson because
despite her situation, she continues to pray and read her Book of Mormon and
Soeur Terooatea and I were practically in tears during that lesson because she
understood the gospel so well that she was willing to do anything to keep the
commandments and progress with her testimony. Incredible!
Wednesday we saw our convert
Teapuarii who has been struggling and is a little inactive because of her
family situation, but she is progressing again! She told us she prayed, read,
and she shared with us more of her feelings and questions so that helped us a
lot. She was supposed to come on Sunday but I think that because her Mom
worked, she wasn't able to. It's definitely hard to see a convert fall when you
knew how strong they were before. The good news is that she's progressing and
that things are getting better.
Thursday was my YEAR mark!!! SO
CRAZY huh? We had a busy day so it was fun. We started off with Weekly Planning (Soeur
Terooatea's favorite part of the week haha) and then we were in lessons the
rest of the day. I decided to be a little creative because I know that Elders
burn shirts or ties or something but since I'm not too in to those kinds of
things, I decided to just take a bunch of pictures with my 1 YEAR letters with
all of our amis that we saw. Our amis got a kick out of it so that was
fun.
How do I feel about being out a
year? I feel like it was YESTERDAY when I was eating Mexican food with my
cousins, Audrey and Brenn before they dropped me off at the MTC and now that it's
almost AUGUST, I feel like it goes by way too fast! WAY too fast.
Friday I did a split in Tuauru with
Soeur Utatao which was just way too fun. She's a crazy Australian but I
just love her to death.
Saturday, we had our activity with
our amis and recent converts where we made my famous Double Chocolate
"Cookies American"! It was great! The majority of people that came
were members but hey, it was our first cooking or crafty activity so Im excited
to see if that improves for the activities in the future. Maybe we'll have more
amis that come!
Our cooking activity.
Other than that, transfer calls are
this week and I'm a little anxious to see who will end up leaving the sector
and everything. I think President will open up more sectors for the sisters so I'm
interested to see which sectors and where that will be!
I hope yall are doing well!!
More pictures from the Heiva
Our ami Melanie made us these beautiful lais. We felt so special wearing them to church.
We went to Keanus' house after church for Maa Tahiti. (Traditional Tahitian food) I ate Fafaru which is raw fish in fermented sea water. I almost threw up! Yippeeee.
These rubber band bracelets and jewelry are HUGE here in Tahiti. Every kid makes them so needless to say, I'm starting to collect them too.
Love yall!!
Soeur Taylor
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