Salut everyone!
This week was AMAZING!
First of all..."let me take a selfie"...no je
rigole.
But seriously I gotta start
from the beginning.
Monday was super great, even
though we sacrificed most of our pday to have anoher conseil des dirigeants
chez President. It was all worth it, because we had Elder Cardon, a 70 who
helps oversee the missionary work in the south Pacific region. Him and his wife
came, and boy o' boy are they some of the nicest people ever!
Elder Cardon is such a sweet
and humble man. The first thing he said when he stood up to give his formation
was "I'm sorry that I don't speak French. I pray that some day I will so
that I can get to know you all personally." He then had all the
Francophones who still didn't understand English sit on the front couches
together while 2 elders sat behind them and translated everything he said
during the entire meeting.
Tuesday we had our Conference
Multi-Zone with the zones of Punaauia, Paea (us), Papeari, and Taravao. And
again Elder Cardon was super amazing and puissant. He talked about eternal
famillies and the goal that we should have on the mission to teach families,
because FAMILIES can be FOREVER! He said "you don't just see an
individual but a famille, with decendants, and sons and daughters of God."
"Everything in this
world will try to convince you that this GOSPEL isn't real...learn to listen
and understand that voice of the spirit." - Elder Cardon
At the end of the Conference we
left to drop off other missionaries. Upon driving I noticed that the brakes on
our car were weak. We went back to the chapelle where President and Elder
Cardon were still and had President drive our car. President gets done and says
"you don't have any brakes...the garage is already closed, so il faut que
you drive carefully home and then to a garage the next day to check them
out." Elder Cardon gets out of the car and drills President with questions
to find out if the car was safe enough to drive home (30 minutes the opposite
direction in rush hour traffic). We get home just fine...probably made many
people mad along the way for driving super under the speed limit but hey
"better safe than sorry."
Wednesday, we headed out early to the other end of our zone
where the only garage is located. We met the mechanic...super nice guy, named
Vai, didn't believe in God...unil we came along haha. He lifts up the hood,
looks at our brake fluid, cusses a lot and starts to laugh.
"Soeur ma...y'all are lucky to be alive right
now."
"Really? Why is that?"....because (keep in mind)
literally neither of us had any previous knowledge about cars let alone brake
fluid, brakes assistants, ni brake pads.
"There's water in your
brake fluid (apparently there shouldn't be), and your brake pads suck."
...oooh.
He then goes on to tell us that
afer he saw our car that his belief in God fortified. According to Vai we
shouldnt be alive, but with that being said it goes to show that we had the
Lord looking out for us and protecting us :).
One of our lecons for this week
was with Jean-Michel. A fairly new amis de l'eglise. NOTE: He was the
one that called us a few weeks ago to tell us that he was to high to drive home
for his lecon. Well good news...he was "all there" and we started
teaching the Plan of Salvation! Y'all that lecon was AMAZING! The spirit was
super strong to help us testify to J-M that God has a plan for ALL of us to
return to Him again. I was super grateful for the gift of tongues that day. And
super grateful for the spirit qui etait la. J-M even said that what we said
really touched him and that though it's gonna be super super hard to stop
smoking weed that he's gonna try anyway. AND that he felt "a weird kinda
peace fill his body," haha IT WAS THE SPIRIT!!! HE FELT THE SPIRIT!!
So yea...that lecon was super
top and though it may seem unlikely des fois to us J-M is slowly developing the
desire to change and become better!!! Woohoo!!!
Je vous aime beaucoup!
Prennez-soin de vous-memes!
-Soeur/Tuahine Morrill :)
p.s. Vai told us that he wants
to take the missionary lecons now!! Woohoo x2!
p.p.s. Jean-Michel came to the
Saturday evening session of Conference de Pieu (Stake Conference) and he got
there early. When we found him he was wearing a t-shirt that said
"Lost..." hahahahaha AND Jean-Michel didn't smoke the ENTIRE day
Saturday so that he could come to conference!
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