HAPPY YEAR MARK AND BIRTHDAY TO ME!!! What a week and weekend! I hit my year mark exactly October 8th which will be tomorrow but yeah it’s crazy how fast time is going! It’s literally getting faster! I’m so grateful for this wonderful year I’ve had as a missionary and wow missions are hard and yet so rewarding! The lives I’ve seen change are beautiful and truly this church is a church of joy and as Elder Kearon said in General Conference “Welcome To The Church Of Joy”! What a time to be living in and how much excitement we have to be members of the Church of Christ! It was truly a personal and birthday gift to me this weekend of feeling the Savior’s love saying I know you Elder LeBaron and I have you right in my hands!! Keep giving your all!! 

Now for some Highlights from this week:

– Transfers were Tuesday so sadly Elder Tenney left me and so I got to be with Faaroa Mā (Elder Chadaz and Elder Jefferies) for a day and it was great! 

– Picked up my Greenie/New Missionary Thursday and he’s great! It’s Elder Durham and he’s from Dallas, Texas and yeah crazy to be training him! I feel inadequate but luckily I got the Savior there to help me know that I can do this and help him to be the missionary the Savior needs him to be!

– MY BIRTHDAY!!! Such a normal day or so I thought… Here I was thinking about man it’s going to be a sad birthday but miracle after miracle made it a birthday to never forget! First waking up to watch General Conference! Then being surprisingly invited to a breakfast with a family! Then lunch for me with my favorite family the Tarati’s whom I love so much! 

– GENERAL CONFERENCE WEEKEND!!!! SO AMAZING! I received so many answers to my questions and it was all just beautiful! What Joy and Peace we can have in our lives thanks to our Savior Jesus Christ! 

That’s about it for this week! It flew by and was crazy but great! Been feeling a lot of stress because of training and wanting to be the best for my new companion! Then watching the conference how much it talked about finding joy and just loving helped me to see that’s all that matters and that all I can control! But yeah sorry it’s kinda a small Email but I didn’t have much time today to write it! 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☺️🤙🏻🌺