TRANSFER WEEK AND I’M GOING TO BE A TRAINER!!! I freaked out! I can’t believe that I’ll be training a new missionary! It’s crazy to think I’ve been out long enough to do that and that I know I’m in the Lord’s hands and that he’ll help me help my new companion but yeah definitely had a little panic attack but I know it’ll all work out! I’m not sure who it is because they like to make it a surprise just till the day he comes so I’m excited to meet him Thursday! So Elder Tenney my companion now will be transferred to Tautira the presqu’île in Tahiti! But yeah crazy!!!
Now for some Highlights from this week:
– Went to the Airport to drop off Elder Tenney to do My Plan in Tahiti which is what missionaries do at the end of their mission to have a plan to get integrated back into life after the mission and started an exchange with Elder Ockey who is our DZ(Dirigeant de Zone or Zone Leader)
– Miracle with Oehani and her mom we had a lesson with them this week and this is a family we’ve been teaching and the lesson was so powerful and they came to church this week and we’ve been trying since I’ve gotten here to get them to church and they finally came and were so happy and we were too and I imagine Heavenly Father was even more happy! It was beautiful!
– I had 2 exchanges this week so my second one was with Elder Jefferies who is a new missionary and we went to his secteur and wow it was kinda difficult leading a secteur I don’t know and with a missionary that doesn’t speak completely fluent yet so it was crazy but it was an amazing day together and he taught me SO much!
– TRANSFER CALLS→ SO… my companion Elder Tenney is leaving which is sad because our time together flew by! But now I’ll be receiving a new new missionary like I’LL BE A TRAINER!!! It’s CRAZY!!! I can’t believe I’ll be training this transfer and have a brand new missionary here to experience all this beautifulness!!! So kinda nervous but I know this is what the Lord needs me to do! So all I can do is trust Him and learn together with my new companion! It’s also a surprise for who it is they don’t tell you till the day of so that it’s a surprise for the both of us! So Thursday of this week he gets here to Raiatea!!
That’s about it for this week but yeah it absolutely flew by and I can’t believe it’s another week! Something I learned this week in my studies again is what I learned weeks ago but to do a little refreshing of what I said. It was about not asking why something happens but what I can learn from it! It’s so beautiful and I’ve really seen myself change my perspective for everything! When we truly see that we are experiencing these challenges to learn and grow! We had a testimony meeting of the missionaries leaving and one missionary told an analogy of all of us being like Tikis and that at first we are pieces of wood and little by little we get sculpted away till we become beautiful tikis and that each painful scratch away of the wood or of us we see it was to make a beautiful pattern to reveal a beautiful art piece that no one would think it has gone through struggling times but see the beautiful lines and parts carved out! I’m not sure if that all makes sense but it touched me so much and it’s true we go through hard times to one day realize how much it blessed us to become the Disciples Of Jesus Christ that can do anything that He asks us to do! I love you all SO MUCH!!!! And miss you all like crazy!!! Till next week! Beaucoup d’amour! Ua here au ia outou! Faaitoito!💙
-Elder LeBaron☺️🤙🏻🌺
