This week was full of amazing experiences! Also I have been on my mission for a month now! Time has flown by but also not at the same time! Time works so differently while on the mission! It is our last week of English classes this week and after that we will only be in French! We also only have a week and a half left of French and then we will switch into Tahtitian! So it is very crazy that I am getting so close to leaving! But anyways the Highlights of the Week: Tuesday, we had a devotional by Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf! It was amazing and talked about the importance of developing Christlike Attributes and how important it is to gain those gifts to be able to be the disciple of Jesus Christ that I need to be! He also talked about how this work isn’t about us but the people we are teaching! It was just so powerful and to be the second Apostle that I have been able to hear here at the MTC! In class this week, we have talked about how the Gift of Tongues is a gift that comes from God and we have to believe and know that we will be blessed with it! It was amazing we watched these videos about the Gift of Tongues that the MTC shows and they were filmed in Tahiti! It talked about how we don’t learn these languages for ourselves but to be able to teach the people of our missions and that I can’t be selfish thinking that I am learning this for me personally! It was a beautiful perspective to have and helps me to understand my purpose as a missionary and why I am here! It was a beautiful experience and really helped me to change my perspective about French and not about how hard it is to learn it but that I am doing this for the wonderful and beautiful people of Tahiti! I know that when I put my trust in the Lord he always provides a way! Also last night in my class I was talking with my teacher Soeur Wilkey and I was telling her how learning a language for me has been sitting at a cliff and it being unknown what is below but that I will be caught by the Lord and I have to take that leap of faith and know that I will be caught! And it was just an amazing experience since I had never said something like that before and I felt the spirit teach me in that moment and know that I will always be caught I just have to take that leap no matter how hard it may be just take it and know that Jesus Christ will catch me and help me with this language! Thursday, I had my first French Helping Others, which is like a person you teach at the MTC and it is like teaching a lesson in the mission field. It was for 15 minutes and only in French! I was so nervous and scared even though I shouldn’t have been! During the lesson I learned that I can’t have fear and try to speak French when I am scared to talk but let my fears go and let the spirit fill my mouth! I was able to tell him the First Vision in French and bear a brief testimony. It was a great experience to push myself in French and to not fear. I definitely did better than I thought I would and was a little too hard on myself so I am working on seeing the positives rather than the negatives of my French and to know and trust that words will come to my mouth when I am supposed to. Today, I was able to go to the temple this morning and do sealings. It was such a beautiful experience! Being in the temple each week has brought so much comfort and strength to me in ways I can’t even express! The change of having missionaries go to the temple each week while in the MTC was a beautiful revelation and it has brought an increase of strength and power each week being reminded of the wonderful blessings that you receive in the temple. It was also beautiful what the sealer said in the sealings he said that this is the ultimate goal for teaching the people on your missions. Baptism is the starting point and the key to them progressing to being able to seal their families for all time and eternity! And I got so emotional and it made me so grateful for my wonderful family and so grateful for the example my parents have been to me and how grateful I am for eternal families! It brings so much joy to me knowing that I will never be alone and have eternal joy! My Testimony: I know that this is the true and restored gospel of Jesus Christ! He is the reason we are able to go through hardships and trials with a smile on our face knowing that in the end everything will work out! You just have to have the eyes to see! I know this is where I am supposed to be right now and even in these hard times I know that I am never alone! God lives and he is our father in Heaven! He loves us so much that He sent His son Jesus Christ to the Earth to atone for us and through the Atonement of Jesus Christ we are able to return back to God! The gift of Eternal Life with Familes brings so much joy to me and I am so grateful for that knowledge! I am so grateful to be a missionary and be able to teach the wonderful people of Tahiti! In the name of Jesus Christ amen.