HOW IS IT ALREADY AUGUST!!! WHAT?!?!? This week I hit my 10 months this week! I can’t believe I’m almost at my year mark! Like I’ve said from the beginning, time as a missionary is so different! It’s hard to explain but it’s flying by and yet moments feel like an eternity but I’ve really seen how focus changes everything! Once focused on our Savior all worries and fears go away and literally can do anything He needs us to! He’s so aware of us more than we could even imagine and loves us likewise! He is truly my best friend and is my brother who never forgets or leaves me and helps me in His perfect way!
Now for some Highlights from this week:
-The best fatams ever with Sœur Opuu with poisson cru à la Grecque! It was INCREDIBLE! Then ate this other fish that was fantasti! I just love fish so MUCH!!!
-Had a beautiful experience with one of our members who’s now coming back to church and is preparing to go back to the temple and seeing how happy she is is amazing and that light in her that she thought she lost was still there and it’s amazing to see the change in her!
-Zone conference! It was so good and will be my last one here in Fautaua! I am so grateful to have the conference every transfer and learn from President and Sœur Tuahu! I love them so much and so so so blessed to have them as my leaders! Got to see Elder Warnock and Sœur Tomasson from district and it was so good to see them! Also got to sing for conference as well and that was a super fun experience!
-Soirée Temple was incredible this week! We had 4 amis come and it was incredible to see how much they love the temple and want to make that their next objective! It’s always such a spiritual night with all of the members and amis that come!
-Got another Golden Harry Potter from a kinder egg so that made me super happy! (Kinda random but it brought me so much joy😂)
-Youth music is so fire and I love it! Each year they are making better and better songs and they just came out with a new song “Light the Way” and my companion and I literally jammed out to it all this weekend and it was so funny! But a great song and there’s a French part in it so that’s cool too!!
That’s it for this week but yeah it was a great one! Excited to see what this week is going to bring! I would love to share a quote that my President shared with our mission! It said, “Those are great principles applicable to how missionaries can become better teachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I particularly loved the experience you shared where “the teacher was not trying to cover the lesson. Rather, he was trying to uncover the lesson that was already inside the learner. By inviting class members through the power of the Spirit, the teacher helped members discover their own desire to act.” This reminds me of Elder Holland’s teaching that when our friends hear our testimonies, “they are hearing echoes of other, earlier testimonies, including their own testimony of Him…We must always remember that these investigators, every man, woman, and child, were among the valiant who once overcame Satan by the power of their testimony of Christ! So when they hear others bear that witness of Christ’s saving mission, it has a familiar feeling; it brings an echo of truth they themselves already know.” Conversion is our aim, love is our motive, doctrine is the key, and the Spirit is the teacher. “ It was from a talk that he sent to us but that when he talks about our testimonies and that through lessons we can discover what’s already in us and help our friends see that this isn’t new to us but familiar! We chose Him before we came here and we can help all to remember Him and choose Him! He is our ultimate goal and way to discover who we are through Him! He lives and is always there for us! I love you all SO MUCH!!!! And miss you all like crazy but all is well!!! Beaucoup d’amour! Ua here au ia outou! Faaitoito!💙
-Elder LeBaron☺️🤙🏻🌺
