Ia ora na!
A quick week went by like that, and with the new ward all
set up we have had tons of work to do this past week. I don't have too much time
to write, but I'll try to put in as much awesomeness as possible.
First of all, new companion! And he's very new. his name is
Elder Duncan from Cache Valley, Utah. He turned 18 about 5 months ago, so he's
just about as fresh of an elder as you can get! He's way cool, and he actually
plays guitar in a band! Already we have some cool things in common, and already
from this week I can see that he has a very solid understanding of the gospel
and he teaches very well. The only thing that's blocking him is the language
barrier of course. It reminds me my own training, when I couldn't understand the
difference between French and Tahitian. But he's a trooper and he's been
smiling the whole time. And he ate fafaru his first night. What a stud! I hope
that by the end of his training his skills will exceed my own and that he'll be
"duncan" people left and right in the waters of baptism. Hahaha props
to Elder Larsen for that joke.
So yeah, the new ward. The members here are insanely
motivated to get that chapel filled up again. In all honesty we didn't have many
investigators or lessons in our area at the beginning of the week, since we
gave all the other investigators to the Vaitape ward. So we really had to seek
inspiration for things to do this week. With nothing fixed but at least with
plans we made, Elder Duncan and I went out to bike to our sector. Then when we
get there, we get a call from an inactive member to give blessings to her and
her sick nonmember family, or a member calls us wanting to take us to see other
inactive members, calls like that just raining down from heaven! So we were
blessed with chances to work with the members and have productive things to do
this week. We can already see the unity in the ward and their desire to hasten
the Lord's work.
And speaking of blessings... a new sickness has been
sweeping French Polynesia. It's called chikungunyah. When we first heard about
that sickness, Elder Gilson said "What? Chicken ganja?" haha so
chicken ganja has attacked the islands. It first hit Tahiti, and it's been
about a month that its been sweeping from home to home over there. But just this
past week or so, its hit Bora. What it is, it's this sickness from Africa or
something. It starts with a headache and a mild fever, but in a matter of hours
you're on your bed with thick pains in every joint of your body, with a rash
from head to toe and a wicked fever, and it takes you out for about a week.
It's a sickness carried by mosquitoes. And this whole week we've been giving
blessings to people everywhere who have this sickness. It seems painful, but it
doesn't seem too life threatening. We've been protected, and not just by Off,
but by angels, because man it seems like everybody is sick. Elder Hansen got
the sickness last night, but we gave him a blessing and today he's back on his
bike. The Lord cant afford to lose his servants for a week in this critical moment
on Bora. We'll see if any of us get it this next week.
That's all I got time for, and we're stoked for the weeks to
come. I love you all, have a great week!
Elder Ball
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