Ia ora na tatou!
It’s been a good week here in Tubuai! We're
still getting adjusted to the new area but things are starting to get moving.
We spent a lot of time this week going around
with the Mission leaders of both branches to meet all the members and find
where inactives and investigators live, etc. It’s been great, the members here
are truly awesome Everyone is so engaged in missionary work and totally love
sharing the gospel and giving references to the missionaries. We've already
received quite a few references, and we've visited them all. Of course there
have different results from them all, but we have found some good potentials!
Man, it’s so good to have members on our side. So good!
Like I said, we've found some solid potential
investigators, some through references and some through some good old door to
door. (Door to door is different here, with the fact that every door is
probably 100 meters apart!) We are gonna teach the F family tomorrow, a
solid find for us. Also another dude named Arii, who has never heard of our
religion somehow but is totally interested. Just some good things that bring
hope to us!
Our investigators now are awesome as well. Tatu
is a guy who has been taking the lessons for a while now. He’s one of the
nicest, humblest guys I have ever met. He’s
been scared of baptism, and has pushed back the date several times now. So we
gotta fix another date with him and help him find the courage and the faith in
Heavenly Father! Also Puaihina, a super sweet old lady who we've been teaching.
There are so many investigators that I can’t name them all, but they are so
great. All of em, so great.
This island is also just awesome. Honestly, it’s
like the craziest beach-farm place I've ever seen. We were at a members place,
and he has a pretty good-sized farm complete with pigs and horses and goats and
chickens and all that stuff. The coolest thing is, like on most of the island,
there isn't really soil, just sand. But stuff just grows in the sand, it’s
crazy! We were walking around and this dude just pulls a carrot right out of
the sand for us to eat. How does that even grow there?? And he’s got pineapple
and taro and tomatoes and banana and coconut trees. Its magic.
Our house though... that's another story. This
place is totally ancient! It hasn't been used in a while, so there's a billion
wasps nests inside. I'm pretty sure its full of mold as well, because i got a
major allergy reaction on Wednesday. And I don’t know if it’s the house or the
island in general, but it’s a little freaky to be taking a shower and have a
crab come crawling out of the drain. But it’s all good, it’s not like we spend
all day in there anyway.
Language is still incredibly difficult. I don’t know why, but
Tahitian is so much harder to understand than French, yet much easier for me to
speak. Yeah, just takes time a guess.
Well, that’s about it. I got the photos to work!
Check it out:
1. Newbies at Tubuai, airport
2. Our house. Check out that mountain
3. One of the many awesome beaches here at Tubuai
4. Found this gnarly thing in our house. Name tag to
reference size, sorry that's as close as I wanted to get to that thing... It
bites
5. People love to fish here. That's a members. Its a good
catch I'd say.
6. First LDS church building on Tubuai. (No attachment.)
7. Sunsets like this everyday (No attachment.)
Love you all! I know this
Church is true, and its awesome to be a servant of the Lord on the island of
Tubuai.
A faaitoito,
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