Bonjour
bonjour ma famille,
This week
was definitely an interesting one! Because it’s the holidays, pretty much ALL
of our investigators either went on vacation or disappeared so we were left with
a pretty much blank week and no lessons! So what did we do?
Tuesday we
set out and did a whole day of contacting! The only parts of our sector that we
haven't contacted yet were the parts where there are huge gates in front of the
houses (like at Mahina) and so it’s a little more difficult to contact in these
parts of our sector. The people are usually French or rich foreigners so they
usually don’t believe in God or even come to the gate to tell us that they're
not interested so needless to say, we came out with zero potential
investigators.
Wednesday,
we didn't want to repeat the results from Tuesday so we decided to be smarter.
We took our member listing and went through to see who were active members, who
were inactive members, and who were the people that we didn’t know. We went and
got help from a couple of members and the whole rest of the week we did our
search and found more partial member families and inactive families and it was
so great! When we were going around searching for these people, we ended up
meeting more potential investigators during the process so that's when I knew
that we were doing what God wanted us to do. We still have more names to
find, but it was great because at least we did something more effective.
Our New
Years was pretty boring. We went to bed by 10:30 (like normal) and didn’t do
anything special. We just had a big dinner with our neighbor, Julia. Soeur
Falesii told me that she was awakened at midnight by some fireworks that went
off but I was knocked out and didn’t wake up until the next morning. Ha ha,
like every night. I sleep like a rock
because I am always so wiped after every day. I think it’s partially the
lasting effects from Chikungunya too. Other than that I’m doing well. I just
still have pain in my feet and hands which I hope will go away soon.
New Year’s Dinner
Saturday, we
both got packages and letters and it was like the most exciting thing ever! We
have SOOOOOO much chocolate and junk now. Thank you Cypress Ward and Falesii
family!
I loved the
package from the youth from Cypress Ward but I was kind of freaking out with
the pictures because everybody looks so old! But thank you, thank you, thank
you Cypress Ward for sending the package. It made us super happy. (Emma I got
your letter too :)
So much candy!
All in all,
this week was a good one. I learned a lot about the worth of souls. We went out
to search for the lost sheep in Christ's flock because we found a few families
that haven’t been visited in over 20 or so years and that broke my heart a
little bit. With one family we went to go see, there was a HUGE gate in front
of their house and we could not see if they were home. So what did we do? Soeur
Falesii gave me a boost and I grabbed the top of the gate to see if anyone was
home. We ended up dying of laughter because we weren’t too successful but in
the end, he came out! It was a partial member family and it was the member that
came out to talk to us. We pulled it together right when he opened the gate so
that was good and there is a lot of potential with him and his family there so
we are happy.
Hereiti! I don't know if I've ever shared her story. She was the one that asked us if Heavenly Father would change her life. She was fixed to be baptized at the end of this month but now she is most likely moving to Tahiti so she'll have to continue with the missionaries in Tahiti! I didn't realize how tall she was until I saw this picture, ha ha.
This picture has a story- we got all ready to leave one day and then out of NOWHERE it starts POURING down rain. We were like what the heck? We didn't want to leave and go in the thick rain because then we would be soaked the whole day and that wouldn't be good. So we sat down for a few minutes and I said a prayer. I didn't know that Soeur Falesii was praying at the same time but when I was saying my prayer, little by little I heard the rain diminish until finally, it stopped all together! We smiled, grabbed our helmets, and headed off! It didn't rain hard the rest of the day. God answers prayers.
The view when we went up this hill to contact
BIBU! Our DMP's dog that is everywhere! He's hilarious.
Her name is Mahina! Haha she is a cute little girl that lives with some of our eternal investigators. She was sitting on the bench by the road when we came up and stopped for a second because we had to call somebody, so while Soeur Falesii was on the phone, I was teaching Mahina to pray. She was explaining how they went to church and she was embarrassed because she didn't even know how to pray or didn’t know the other kids (she's 5) I have always had a special place in my heart for this little girl so we had a nice chat and I taught her how to pray. She told me that she would pray that night. That was a touching moment for me.
Thanks for all of y'alls prayers. I love y'all!
Soeur Taylor
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