What a week!!! It started with my toe not feeling well and it was starting to get Infected from an ingrown toenail I have that I didn’t take care of! So it started to get worse and worse and then last P-day I showed my family and they said you should see a doctor so I went to the doctor on Thursday and he said come in the next day and I will do surgery on it! I was like I’m going to die! How has it been a few weeks of being here and I just started to feel better from being sick and now I have to get surgery on my toe! So I reached out to Sœur Tuahu and we made plans to go at 9am on Friday! It was in some sketchy building and I was terrified but I had said so many prayers before and had so much peace and felt my Grandpa and Great-Grandma with me! I then got the shots to numb my toe which hurt so bad and then I couldn’t feel anything which I was praying it would not hurt since it took awhile to numb my toe! Then as he was cutting out the ingrown toenail he was like do you want music and I was like YES! And so here I am singing to I Can Do All Things With Christ from the youth album while he is doing surgery on my tie! Looking back on it, it was the funniest thing! But I did it and now my toe is healing! I felt Jesus Christ with me the whole time and had to rely on Him more than ever before to feel comfort and not alone as I couldn’t speak French to the doctor and it being the beginning of my mission! Though it was so difficult and I literally wanted to cry but through Jesus Christ I was able to feel as Doctrine & Covenants 24:12 says, “Strength such as is not known among men” and I felt that in this moment! It was incredible! A moment I will never forget and though it was very hard to go through I didn’t do it alone! 

Other highlights for the week:

-We had an incredible lesson with this man whose wife would never come to the lesson but did this time and she did and we were teaching about the plan of salvation and it was amazing that his whole family was there listening when the family is central to the plan of salvation! The spirit was so strong and it was just an amazing experience with them!

-Since I had the surgery on my toe we got a car that we got from the other Elders in our zone and it was a miracle because we were able to go to this lesson with the Sœur’s in our district that we wouldn’t have been able to without the car to help this woman and it was amazing because if we didn’t have the car we wouldn’t have been able to and it was great!

-A French study we had on Thursday at the Colombel family’s house and it was amazing because I got so much help from Sœur Colombel and the other missionaries to help my French more and to continue to push myself to speak more and know what to say in certain situations! We also then ate yummy crepes for lunch after it was over! It was amazing! 

That’s about it for this week! But it was super crazy but full of amazing experiences to help me grow stronger in Jesus Christ and trust Him in everything I do and to keep being positive always and focus on Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father’s plan for me and everything always works out in the end! Till next week!! Beaucoup d’amour! Ua here au ia outou!

-Elder LeBaron