Ia ora na!
Good week. Good times. Always accompanied with small
difficulties and trials, but who remembers that stuff anyway? It's already been
5 weeks that I've been here on Bora Bora. I believe that's fairly longer than
the average American stays on Bora, and for that I am absolutely grateful to
serve here on this little rock in the ocean. There are so many awesome people
here, and so many memories made every day. Its a privilege to serve them and
help them all come unto Christ.
Elder Lee Chip Sao and I are still pushing forward. We've
had some sweet moments with some of our investigators this week, and found some
new ones as well. We started lessons with a teen named R------. He's 13 years
old already pretty deep into the things of the world, which isn't rare here at
Bora. He often passes by the Hutia family, a member family. The family proposed
that he take lessons with us, and he accepted! We had a good first couple
visits with him this week, he's a super nice, smiley kid. We do the lessons at
the beach because its waaay beautiful and peaceful and sometimes it attracts
other teenagers to come over and listen. We haven't taught him a ton yet apart
from a lesson on our Heavenly Father and prayer, but yesterday one of the Hutia
kids tells us "Elder ma, I don't know what you guys did to R------- but he's
stopped drinking." Haha, pretty cool! I hope it will be a lasting change.
Maybe the best part of the week was Saturday, when the whole
island participated in a proselyting activity in preparation for the
celebration of the new ward which will be created in a couple of weeks. We all
started with a fast Friday night, and Saturday morning the members and
missionaries split up into different sectors to distribute invitations to less-
active and inactive members, as well as as many nonmembers as possible. It was
a sweet activity, and it was the first time I've seen all the members
participating in missionary work like this. Everyone loved it and were excited
with all the names they collected of all the people they went to visit who
accepted the invitation to come to the celebration. We plan on doing the same
thing next Saturday to hit up more people.
After the activity, Elder Lee Chip Sao and I had a good
amount of lessons planned, but they were on the other side of the island...
faaitoito over to the other side of the island on bike while fasting? Aita,
fiu! Just before leaving the chapel we grabbed a young adult named T--- and
asked us if he wanted to drive with us to do some lessons. He playingly
murmured in the beginning but he agreed, and we had a sweet time together! We
taught some solid lessons with R----- and M--- and C---, and it was fun having
T--- with us because he shared good thoughts and a sweet testimony. It's
awesome because T--- hasn't had the opportunity to serve a mission yet, and
times almost up for him. But he said that it was the first time that he went to
teach with the missionaries, and he had a sweet time as well. We hope that
he'll go again with us in the future and that he'll have the opportunity to
serve a mission.
It was a good week. We're excited for the new ward. Also in
two weeks the mission will receive 25 new missionaries, and the zone leaders
told me that it is very likely that I will train. I'm down to have a second son!
Here's some photos.
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After a lesson with Raihau. They brought a guitar over,
haha. And im not as sunburned as I look.
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Typical everyday scenery.
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I love you all! Until next week
Elder Ball
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