NOVEMBER ALREADY! Christmas is next MONTH!!!🎅❄️⛄️🌴🥥☀️ And then 2025 here we go for my last year in the Tahiti Papeete Mission!🥹 What a week! Had an incredible experience and then some of the hardest trials! But hey all you can do is smile and know every day gets a little better in difficult situations! Joy is a choice and we can’t control our circumstances but our attitudes! So I chose to have JOY! Well I tried my hardest!😅

Now for some Highlights from this week:

– THE HAWAIKI NUI!!!! It was so INCREDIBLE! So the Hawaiki Nui is a once a year huge boat race from all the islands of the Raromata’i/Society islands being Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa, and then to Bora Bora! It’s a crazy race! And so we did a service project and got to carry all the outrigger(va’a/pirogue) boats out of the water and put them on the shore! It was crazy but so amazing! We got shirts and a hat and gotta wear it all day because it was a dress code and to show the sponsors and we were doing a service project so it worked out! The shirts are sick! Then I got to see one of my favorite families from Fautaua (my last secteur) Teamo mā ! So that was amazing!

– HAPPY HALLOWEEN !🎃 👻🧙🏻‍♂️☠️ We had a ward primary Halloween trunk or treat activity! It was so fun and we had 3 of our amis there and it was great! We did the Candy Pong and it was our stand that we ran and we had such a good time being with them all! So we got a little special Halloween experience! My last and first one out here in Tahiti!

– CRAZY SUNBURN!🥵😵 So not really a highlight but yeah from the Hawaiki Nui I forgot to put sunscreen on my neck/chest area and put it everywhere else just not there! It took all the sun and it was so painful! It blistered horribly and I had a huge blister on my neck! I then called our mission nurse and went to the doctor and got this French medicine Flamazine and it completely healed the blister in 2 days! It was a miracle! Also received a blessing from my companion and that more than anything I know healed me! Huge miracle! But I couldn’t wear my tie because we didn’t want the blister to pop and so that was quite funny to see so many be like where’s your tie and then they saw me all bandaged up and were like oh! So yeah crazy!

– Had a Stake Conference this weekend and it was great! We had wonderful speakers and the spirit was so strong!

– Found out I’m cousins with Elder Chadaz!! He’s my 4th cousin! That’s the closest I’ve found on the mission so yeah pretty dope! It makes sense we are the closest to each other here so it’s because we are cousins!😂

That’s about it for this week! But yeah it was crazy but I was able to find Joy through the hard moments! The Lord is always there for me and even during hard moments He’ll always make them better if we turn to Him! He’s the only source of Joy in this world full of turmoil! Miracles are everywhere and when we have the eyes to see it wow it’s beautiful! That’s it for this week but 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☺️🤙🏻🌺