THE WEEK OF EXCHANGES!!! Wow, this week was crazy! I literally had 3 exchanges that I did this week! If you don’t know what that is, it’s when you go with another companion for the day because my companion is the District Leader. He sees how the other missionaries work and if he can help them be more effective and so I have to go with the other companions! It’s actually an amazing experience to spend a day with another companion who I might never serve with and see how they teach! The thing is I had to be the one to leave for all of them so I literally wasn’t in my secteur like all of last week😂 It was crazy but I learned a lot!
Now for some Highlights from this week:
-Got to be with Elder Fahey who is our DZ mā(Dirigeant de Zone/Zone Leader) and it went great! He’s super nice and we had a wonderful day and I got to meet so many of their amazing amis! Really loved their secteur!
-Got to be in my old part of my secteur for a day because it got split and I got to be with the other Elder who serves there and it was great to see all of our amis there! They all missed me and I missed them too! We also had a huge miracle with finding 3 amis that day through one of their new ami who is getting baptized actually on my birthday who invited his amis to take the lessons too! It was amazing!!
-Sœur Hoffman who works in the Bureau(office) for the mission was so sad this week when she realized I’m leaving soon and was like I’m talking to President to have you stay!😂🥹 She’s literally my favorite and I’m going to miss her so much! It made my heart so happy! It’s been 6 months here so nobody stays longer than that in a secteur so I will be leaving next transfer!
-Had another exchange with Facebook mā and they had a Heiva de Paroisse(the big dance and cultural party for the ward) which was amazing! The church Historian for Tahiti was there and told us amazing stories of Addison Pratt who was the first missionary to come to French Polynesia on Tubuai! Then got to eat Ma’a Tahiti(Tahitian food) and it was good! Then I ate fafaru again and still don’t like it! It’s a liquid of fermented rotten fish heads stuff and then you put fresh raw fish in in and let it sit in the liquid for a couple hours and then you eat it! So yeah not the greatest!
-We had 5 amis at church this Sunday! It was a huge miracle and they all loved it so much!
That’s about it for this week but yeah it was a good week and absolutely flew by! This week will be my last week here and I can’t believe I’ve been here for 6 months! It’s been amazing and I love the people so much here! Something I read this week in my personal studies was in the Conference talk by Elder Renlund from the last General Conference and this quote touched me saying, “We become vulnerable when we slow down and especially when we stop. If we maintain spiritual momentum by continually “rowing” toward the Savior, we are safer and more secure because our eternal life depends on our faith in Him.” I love this quote from the importance to keep moving forward and to not stop! The Savior’s there to give us the strength and energy to do everything and we just have to keep moving step by step little by little and He always fills in the gaps! Like the quote from the movie Meet the Robinson “Keep Moving Forward”! It’s all we can control! He lives and helps us to keep moving forward and knows us so perfectly and loves and that we aren’t moving forward alone but with Him in every step of the way! I love you all SO MUCH!!!! And miss you all like crazy!!! Beaucoup d’amour! Ua here au ia outou! Faaitoito!💙
-Elder LeBaron☺️🤙🏻🌺
