Bonjour tout le monde!
On top of that, we didn't have the
car for like most of last week so we were on bikes. It was good to be on bikes
but our sector is just so big that we were like always so nasty and sweaty when
we got to appointments. Haha and of course being as white as I am, I got a
lotttt of sun. Don't worry mom, I wore sunscreen ( the second day lol) and
we've got like 5 aloe plants in our yard so that was super nice. I am finally
getting color so that's nice and I'm also developing some super great tan
lines. My favorite is my CTR ring tan line. lol. When we were on bikes though,
we ended up starting our days early and just stopping when we had a break to do
our studies. It was cool because we found some pretty neat places right next to
the water!
So I have to share a funny story
because it pretty much defines every night in our house. First of all- I HATE
cockroaches. I am completely terrified of them. They're pretty big in Texas but
they are HUGE here. And FAT. So I usually avoid going outside at night because
they're all around our house in our driveway at night but occasionally one gets
in the house. So last Thursday, there was one crawling around and Soeur Carter
(being the BEST companion ever) goes and gets the broom to sweep it out. The
only problem is that when she has the broom, all of a sudden it flies a little
bit by the curtains. UMM WHAT. So we're both freaking out a little because we
we're not expecting it to fly! (usually they don't) And so I'm already way up
on the couch and she's like cautiously trying to find it with the broom. As
soon as she sweeps over by the curtain, it flies up at her face. We are both
screaming but luckily she turns away fast enough to avoid it. But THEN, it
flies up again RIGHT in her face and of course, being the cool person that she
is, she goes into ninja mode and somehow ends up laying on the ground. In the
end, it ended up flying back outside and we were all okay. We did end up
laughing for a good like 10 minutes though. GOOD TIMES in our little house.
The work is going pretty well, but
we have so many amis who are just SO close to baptism, but they have these
blocks. Most of them are because they're living with someone and they're not
married or someone in the family isn't okay with it. We keep working with them
though and keep praying that they can get over these blocks. We had a baptism
(well two) this past weekend of a Mami and her daughter. They were baptized in
Papara but the Soeurs in Maraa (Sr Taylor and Sr Moli) taught them because they're
in Maraa during the week. It was a great service!
My first baptism is this week for
Charles Willy!! He was also the first ami I committed for baptism so I'm really
excited for this weekend.
We have Charles Willy this weekend and then Nuihau next weekend! I don't know if I've talked about him yet, but I will for sure tell his story next week or the next after his baptism.
Life is great here in Tahiti -
ALWAYS full (people LOVE to feed the missionaries because apparently they're
always scared we're starving to death or something lol) and always happy!
Thanks for the mail and safe travels
to Colorado famille!
Beaucoup d'amour,
Soeur Taylor
There are puppies everywhere.
Stacey... She loves my tag but she never smiles! One day...
Yesterday was little Hitinui's birthday! He's second cousins with Tepatupatoa
on the right who is Vaitiare's son. They're hilarious.
LOOK AT THIS PUMPKIN A MEMBER GAVE US! His name is Mautini. (pumpkin in
tahitian- creative I know)