Surprise Wedding in Tahiti?!👀🤵🏻♂️👰♀✨️🌺 hahaha had my first wedding here in Tahiti because the Sœur mā had a baptism and invited us to it and I had forgotten they were getting married and then after the baptism was over had a reception and it was amazing! Weddings here are INCREDIBLE!! They were both literally the cutest ever and so happy to be married and then baptized! They had so much Joy and literally were rays of Light beaming after! It was a wonderful experience and grateful I got to experience it!
Now for some Highlights from this week:
-We have a new quartier(neighborhood) in our secteur!!! It just opened last Saturday the same day as the CN180 celebration! So we got to do contacting and found 3 member families and 3 new amies who are interested in taking the lessons! So we’ll keep contacting and finding out who alm lives there!
-We had MLC(Mission Leadership Council) this week and it was wonderful and it was all focused on the importance of working with members! It was amazing and I get to got because I’m a Tech Missionary and we take all the notes to then send it out to all the missionaries! Also got to really be with President and Sœur Tuahu and sat by them at lunch and it was such a wonderful talk with them! They are so amazing!
-Soirée Temple was also this week and its crazy that another month has flown by! We do it every month to have all our friends come together and talk about the temple then go to the temple garden and take pictures of them, answer questions, and really just feel the spirit of being on the temple grounds! Hanilei came and she was so excited to continue to prepare for going to the temple because she just got baptized and now going to the temple! It was a beautiful experience with her and she is just continuing to be a ray of sunshine! She literally the sweetest!
-BAPTISM WITH PAIATUA!!! It was so good and it’s amazing watching him change and now baptized and got confirmed yesterday being Sunday! It was so spiritual and I got to give the talk on the gift of the Holy Ghost and it was wonderful! And then Sunday he was in class and they asked him to introduce himself because there were some new people and he was like I’m Paiatua and I’m a member and he said it so happily and it was just amazing to see him now a member and baptized!
-We did contacting with our members thus week with the Family Tevero and it was so amazing! We were able to talk with people that would’ve wanted to talk with us but since they were friends with the members they were happy to talk with us and it was an amazing experience! Working with members has been a wonderful experience and its literally impossible to do this work without them! They are a wonderful aid to the missionaries and we can’t do this beautiful work alone!!
That’s about it for this week but it was amazing to see this week being filled with Heavenly Father answering my prayers and really feeling His infinite individual love for me! I’ve been struggling a bit lately but was able to fast and pray and got the answers to my prayers! Though it’s never what I’m expecting, it’s always what I need! The most beautiful I read was by President Holland titled “Waiting on the Lord” October 2020 and it was literally an answer to my prayers and was just a beautiful moment! And so I wanted to share with all of you that it’s so true that God absolutely loves us so perfectly and answers each and every prayer we have we just have to have the eyes and patience to see! It’s in His perfect time table and it’s much better than ours! He knows exactly what we need when we need it and sometimes in a moment when we don’t think we need it and yet it was exactly what we needed! He is always there for us! Turn to Him always and know that with our faith and trust we will be blessed in His perfect timing and become who He needs us to be! Can’t believe another week went by! Time truly has been flying by! It’s already May!! Crazy!! But I love all of you so so so so so much! And miss you all likewise!!! Beaucoup d’amour! Ua here au ia outou! Faaitoito!💙
-Elder LeBaron
