Ia ora na tatou!
Allrighty, that makes 6 months
out in the mission! Man it’s gone by pretty fast, its kinda scary. But I’m
looking forward to another awesome year and a half.
This week has been just a little slower in terms of finding new
investigators and attaining our goals, but we have had some great lessons
nonetheless. The F family is amazing, simply put. It turns out that they
have been to a sacrament meeting, and the baptism of their niece, and that they
have already felt the Spirit in these experiences. You could say they've been
prepared by God to receive us! We've committed them to read the Book of Mormon
and to pray if it is true, and they said that they would totally do it, because
in their other prayers that wave committed them to do, they've felt the Spirit
testify of our teachings. Things are going great with them, absolutely kind and
loving people. It’s not even us converting them, totally the Holy Ghost.
We had an interesting lesson
with Puaihina also, the sweet old lady that I mentioned in another letter.
She’s been having trouble reading the Book of Mormon, and accepting the true
baptism through the priesthood. After some discussion, Elder Firuu shared a
great scripture, Alma
32:28, about the gospel being like a seed helping our faith grow, and how
we can come to know the truth of these things in that manner. After that, I
promised Puaihina that if she read a certain chapter, 2 Nephi 31, and if she
prayed, she would receive an answer that these things we're true, without a
doubt. I have no idea why I promised her that, but it felt right I guess. We'll
see what will have happened this week--I’m really hoping she did get an answer!
Other than these lessons, not
too much else. People are starting to find out that I can play the piano. It
turns out I’m one of 2 people who play the piano in the district, so now I’m
playing for the musical numbers in the mission conference in a few weeks as
well as the primary program for Mahu. I’m pretty sure I’m down for the
Christmas program as well, I have no idea. Oh well, it’s fun being able to
serve in a variety of ways!
I’ve been really gaining a
desire to learn this week--just learn everything about the gospel. It’s so
great to be able to have the fullness of the gospel, the truth, right in our
hands, all the questions about God, life, the teachings of Jesus, this Gospel
has all the answers for it all. And with this desire to learn and fully
understand the gospel, my testimony has grown so much with just being able to
study it all, and not just study it but live it as well. Man, I love the
Gospel.
Well, that’s about it for this
week! Thank you for your love and support, take it easy brothas and sistas!
Elder Ball
Please write me: (Put 3 stamps on your envelope.)
Tahiti Papeete Mission
Elder Ball, Casey
B.P. 93 Papeete,
Tahiti 98713
French Polynesia
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| Tubuai from atop Sleeping Man Mountain. |
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