November 23, 2015
Hello all!!
It's me again, but this time in
Taravao 1 Tahiti!
So leaving my old sector in
Huahine was pretty emotional, I'm not gonna lie. I met so many great familles
with so much potential and love for the gospel, that i teared up a little bit
on the flight over to Tahiti.
And let me tell you that the
work here in Tahiti is SO MUCH MORE FASTER than the work in Huahine. Everyone
in Huahine is so chill and lax and doesn't care about being on time for
anything, so going from that to the complete opposite in Taravao will take some
getting used to!
My new companion: Soeur
Shariatmadari, from Utah! Is SO COOL and LOVES talking to people which is
pretty daggum great if i do say so myself!
This past saturday we had a
bapteme, and his name is Enoha! He's 19 years old and just clung to every word
they taught him before I got here. He's super nice, and is gaining a bigger
desire to go on a mission!
We also had a second lecon with
this 15 year old kid named George! He started reading the Livre de Mormon the
first day the missionaries gave it to him. We taught him the Plan de Salut and
told us it makes so much sense! We engaged him to be BAPITEZED and he said
YES!! ....He's getting baptized 5 DECEMBRE!!
We also have another bapteme
this coming Saturday. His name is Heituarii and he is 19. When we met him he
was living with his girlfriend (whose a membre) and her famille (also membres).
He wanted to get baptized but he needed to either move out of the house or
switch rooms (which is allowed as long as it's under parent super vision), so
that's what he did!!! He loves reading the Livre de Mormon, and him and his
girlfriend Beatrice read it together and pray together as a couple every night
now.....so AWESOME!! So yea he is getting baptized 28 NOVEMBRE!!!
This Sunday was beyond hectic.
I can't even describe it to y'all! Like i said ma nouvelle comp is such a get
up and go and LOUD person. She was all over the place greating people, fixing
lecons, and introducing me to everyone at church yesterday. No lie I was super
overwhelmed, and just tried my best to remembre names and faces and whose in
what ward (side note: our building houses two wards for church, Taravao 1 and
Taravao 2 and our church starts at 8:00 am.... :) ). It was tellement stressful
yesterday that's for sure!
Story: one of the last lecons i
had in huahine before i got transfered was with Vaia who is the Temoin Jehovah.
No lie....it went AMAZING! We backed all of our gospel and his questions with
scriptures soley from the Bible and we bore pure testimony. At some points
during the discussion we thought we had him...that we helped him see the truth
and love of the gospel. Then....out of now where he tells us "Ton Dieu est
mechant pourquoi vous aimez ca?" "Your God is mean...why do you like
that?" After that he continued to criticize our religion in front of our
faces, saying our gospel is complex, that our Heavenly Father is mean, and
Christ is a hypocrite. No lie....that really hurt. But i just kept on smiling.
Why? Because I knew, that as we were teaching him and using the Bible, he could
feel the Spirit. And i knew he was uncomfortable with that feeling, because
it's something knew that he had never felt before. He was fighting the feeling
of the Spirit, because with the Spirit I knew that what we were teaching was
the truth, yet he still wanted to deny it. As missionaires we are there to
share the gospel of Jesus Christ and how His church was restored on this earth
today. Our purpose is not to fight back or Bible bash, because the Spirit
doesn't work with contention. So what did I do? I bore pure testimony. At that
point that's all I could do. And with me at my 6th month mark I don't think I
bore a more pure testimony with the gift of tongues than that lecon. I knew
with that he couldn't deny what I said was true. It was a really powerful
experience that I know I won't ever forget. WIthout a doubt I know this gospel
is true!
I'm super stocked for my time in Taravao and the peole that
I'll meet!
E mea oaoa vau!
Thank y'all for the prayers and
as the holiday season is coming (AND THANKSGIVING IS THIS WEEK) I hope y'all
have a great time with family and friends!!
fun fact: A membre from Taravao
2 paroisse invited all the missionaries over in the stake to celebrate
THANKSGIVING with them....and they don't even do that here!!! HOW AWESOME IS
THAT!! #superpumped
Je vous aime BEAUCOUP!!
Jusqu'au semaine prochaine!
-Soeur/Tuahine McKenzie Morrill :)
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