37 till CHRISTMAS!!! 🎄☃️🎅🏻🏝☀️ & 10 till Thanksgiving!!! 🥧🍗🦃🍁 SO crazy how fast time is flying by! Miracle filled week and always super sad ending with saying goodbye to Elder Chadaz, Elder Ockey, Elder Whetten(my second trainer), & Sœur Harryman!!😭 It’s so sad it’s literally all my favorite friends in the mission that are all leaving! And all those when I was a baby in the mission were all at 1 year and now I’m in there shoes and they are all finished!! Super crazy!
Now for some Highlights from this week:
– Made a Facebook video for our Facebook page and so im excited to see how it turns out! It was a short 2 minute video of our beliefs and a reel to post so well see how that goes!
– Exchange with Elder Chadaz for the last time and it was so amazing to be with him! Love him so much and he’s literally I would say one of if not my favorite missionary I’ve met on my mission! He’s just the best and its him that we found out we are 4th cousins so even cooler!
– District Tamaa(eating) together in the city at Uturoa and it was great to be with them! It was because Elder Chadaz is finishing his and so we all wanted to eat together! The food was very yummy and it was a great time spent together!
– Soirée Familiale that was great! We had 5 of our amis there and then we talked about the plan of salvation and where we were before and our lives here! It was one of the members that lead it and it was great! We then invited them all to church the next day and all of them came! We had 10 amis at church and that was the most we’ve had since I’ve gotten here! It was INCREDIBLE!!!
– Appel de Transfert!!! We had our transfer call this week and I’m staying with my companion and now I’m the new District Leader!! It’s crazy! I can’t believe I’ve been out long enough to be that and now have that responsibility! I’m super excited for this next chapter of my mission and to be able to help all these wonderful missionaries in my district and all our friends here at Raiatea!!
– Primary Program for church and it was that when we had all 10 of our amis there! It was so cute and all the children did such a great job!
– The funniest thing happened where I for the first time mixed up an English word with a French word that wasn’t good at a Faatamaraa! We were with my favorite family Tarati and we were talking about The Other Side of Heaven which is a film our church made about a mission that served on a Polynesian Island and in the first one Anne Hathaway is in it! And so I was explaining that to them and I was like she’s Catwomen, in Les Miserable, and then I was like Princess Diary! But when I said Princess Diary in French I was like La Diarrhée de la Princesse 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ In French Diary and Diarrhea sound the same and Diary isn’t how you say that in French it’s “Journal Intime” so they all bursted out laughing and I had realized what I had said being “The Diarrhea Princess”, turned absolutely bright red, and was dying of laughter with them! Definitely a core memory and so grateful that it was with them who I love so much and definitely made our relationship stronger🤣
That’s about it for this week but yeah it was crazy! Filled full of miracles, sad moments, and full of laughter! I love this work so much and more and more I realize how little time I have left! As I see these missionaries going I know I’m getting so close! As Sœur Harryman had said in her final testimony because we have a testimony meeting with the whole mission on zoom and what she said really touched and stook with me being, “My brother told me this right before the mission and I’ll tell it to you all now, Forget yourself and Live everyday like it’s your last!” She was like the mission truly flies by and live every day like it’s your last! It was great advice and exactly that! I must give my all more than ever before and I know the Savior will give me strength! He lives and thanks to His Atonement everything is possible and He is the answer to everything! Once we forget ourselves and turn to Him we grow in beautiful ways and do as the Prophet has told us to “Let Him Prevail in Our Lives”! He’s there always and loves us more than we truly can imagine! 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☺️🤙🏻🌺
