Wow! It has been too long! I’m not gonna lie im the worst at writing emails haha!
But im doing sooo good! Just living it up with my companion (best buddy) Elder Bush!! Were thriving! We’ve had a couple baptisms this transfer, and today we put 5 people on date for baptism! God is Hastening his work!!! But anyways im doing amazing having the craziest experiences!
Some crazy highlights:
– Got my last rabbies shot from being bit in the butt by a dog!
– Had a couple baptisms! One of which was a satanist before which was insane! He was low-key like possessed! But God fixed him!
– Almost died a couple times in the micros here!
– made a couple fun new songs on the Guitar! I’ve been playing a lot more! We also did just have a family home evening and I got to play electric guitar! Didn’t realize but turn out i can play Eléctric guitar haha!
– we’ve been eating quite a bit of Berlines recently! They are chilean doughnuts basically with homemade Boston cream!
– had the best asado of my whole mission with our bishop!!!
– we performed a fun song i wrote for zone conference!
– had a very weird conversation with the quote on quote chilean dinosaur! He told us hes the oldest man alive, and that we have dinosaurs inside our bodies that are aproxomently 6,500,000 years old! Hahah it was the strangest thing I’ve ever experienced haha he also testified that the book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith really did see Jesus, and Heavenly Father!
That’s about it! Just living it up! Preparing for Christmas and really just enjoying the best 2 years of my life!! Proverbs 3:5-8!!!
Wennnnaaa capos que onda? How are we??? My week was great! Went very fast and we had tons of success! Our friends thag we’ve been finding are being baptized and coming to church which is awesome! Not to much has happened this past week so it’ll be a way shorter email but I’ll jump into so highlights!
a dog was attacking me so I kicked in the throat as hard as possible and it like couldn’t breathe and ran away and then it stopped hacking so I think it’ll be fine hahah but man I thought thag little guy was gonna bite my leg off hahah
-Martina came to church! Shes a mákina that’s being baptized the 7th!!!
we watched part of La U, which is a team from Santiago that’s supposedly a super good team! Martina turned it on and then we had to leave to make it home in enough time!
We ate pretty good lunches this past week! I’ve finally felt full! In the beginning of the week I made pasta that was soooo good!!
a member had a weed plant growing!
I spent a day in Almendral which is the casical touristy part of Valparaíso!
I saw a needle which was gross (A needle for doing drugs)
Well that’s basically it! We had a blast, it went fast, and d we found cool new people! But i hope yall are doing good! We’ll talk next week! But i love yall! My verse for the day is 3 Nephi 11:31-32! But anyways i love yall! Que estén super bien! Que dios les bendiga! 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶
Wenaaaa familia cómo andamos??? Hey guys how are we doing! Welcome back to a nice weekly update to a day in the life of a little (fake) chilean missionary named Elder LeBaron!
Well the life is good! Just working hard! We found some máquinas (really lit people)! But anyways we should have 1-3 baptisms this next week which will be awesome! But ya we have just been grinding!!!!
Also I had no idea that this party here was as long as it is! Like we’re talking, they started the parties Monday and ended today! It’s about the longest party ever haha! Also it was so hard to try and find people this past week! We were able to find 10 but.. it was a lot harder than normal! The good news is the people we found have tons of potential which is awesome!
Well my life is basically the same! Just the same old routine. After a bit you start feeling like a hamster in a wheel haha, doing the same thing weekly! But it’s all good. The life is chill, just living up every day!
But that’s about it! I love yall tons and can’t wait to give yall an update next week! But for now I’d love to give yall a few verses to read….. Roman’s 3:23-26!!!! Love yall! Nos vemos y espero que estén bien y que les vaya increíble! Nos vemos hasta la semana que viene!
Wennnnaaa choroooss cómo andái oye loco‼️ Hoy dia debo andar má flaite because….. its 1️⃣8️⃣ DE Septiembre‼️ I’m doing so good! Me and my comp are grinding really hard! We got more trust with the members and we had tons of people come to church! 1 of our friends told us yesterday that she wants to come to church Every week! But anyways we’re doing super good and having tons of miracles! Now to talk about the crazy things happening haha…..
we had to shut down a road because a guy broke out of prison and started reaking havoc on our area haha so that was nice!
I had a dog almost kill me which was not super fun! I definitely had angels watching over me! I also yelled at it,and since im 6’5″ I just acted huge and he ran!
we had these drunk people try talking to me and then they were so drunk they fell on the ground hahah
this girl came up to me and spoke in English and she was flirting like CRAZY!! I wasn’t prepared to handle the conversation haha I just was being kind she was like laughing at things that aren’t funny and then was like “your Spanish is SOO good” hahah it was funny! But she did have good English which was crazy!
I did an exchange in Laguna Verde which is literally the forest and beach! It’s sooo cool! I had a blast!
We had a party at our church building for the 18 de septiembre which was sweet! It was low key the biggest party I have ever been to at a church! They cooked up this chicken that was incredible! People danced, and it just was sweet! The best part of it all was we got friends from teaching to come!!
These members want me to come back and remember them because I make music! It was hilarious! The member even started crying, it was uncomfortable but I was like, “ya of course ill remember you guys.” Even though they are members from another ward haha
we talked to a member and she’s going to buy chicken feet, cow liver, cow stomach, and some other parts of the cow and cook it for us so we can eat it!!
Well this was my week! It was fast but super fun! We’re just working hard out here, growing and building relationships with the members and we’re seeing so much more success! But anyways I love yall so much and can’t wait to talk in a week! My scriptures for the week are in John 20:27-29. These verses are talking about Thomas and how he only believed when he saw Jesus in person, let us not be like that and let us belive always with doubting! I love yall and will talk in a week!
Wena familia cómo andamos? Esta semana pasada fue una semana de maravilla! I hope yall are doing amazing!! It’s been like 700 years since the last time I wrote an email haha! But anyways I’m doing great! I’ve just been working hard and living the dream! My first transfer here in Quebrada Verde is done which is pretty crazy! The missionary I’m training (Elder Stou) is killing it! He’s locked in on his purpose which is awesome! I’m trying to help him as much as I can! But anyways I’m doing super good! A funny thing that happened this last week was there were like 4-5 chilean girls that recognized me from my TikTok and had listened to my songs on Spotify and we’re like, “Hey! Are you the guy that sings on TikTok” and I was like “I mean yeah”, and they’re like “we’ve seen you before but just with longer hair” and just was like “WHAAT” haha they asked to take a picture with me but they had recognized me from TikTok which was pretty funny! But anyways we’re just trying our best to not get stabbed or jumped haha but other than that we’re doing great, just trying to soak up every day! But we’ll talk again next week, love yall so much! 🥰🥰🥰
What a week! We had transfers this week and got the new missionaries that will now being serving here! I’m excited to meet the new missionaries in my district and have a fun new transfer together! Also crazy miracles this week with fixing a date for Baptism for our ami Mana and they’ll be getting married the same day! So super excited!! A huge miracle! Sadly I will probably get transferred before but it’s not about me and I’m so excited for him!!
Now for some other Highlights from this week:
– Had a “exchange”(Using quotes because it wasn’t actually one) with Elder Jefferies because his companion Elder Chadaz finished his mission and so he left before transfers so he got to tag along with us for 2 days and it was great!
– Had my first District Leader call with the others in my zone with our STLs(Sister Training Leaders) and our DZ(Zone Leaders) and it was great! We all fixed great goals and how we can help our zone to have a great new transfer!
– Invited 2 of our amis this week to get baptized and only one said yes and waiting for the other to give a response but it was amazing! The spirit was so strong and it was such a great experience to see our ami progressing so well!
– Sœur Alexandrine Leclercq is back from Japon and it was great to see her again! She’s one of my favorite members and she’s just the sweetest! So it was great to see her again!
– We had 6 of our amis at church and it was amazing! We didn’t have all 10 from last week but it was still more than we were expecting to come so that was a miracle!
That’s about it from this last week but it’s crazy how fast time is flying by!! I just want to end with the Prophet’s words in his last talk he gave, “Come unto Christ and “offer your whole [soul]” to Him. This is the secret to a life of joy!” Christ is our JOY! Turn to Him! He’s the only answer to true Eternal JOY! We may feel alone and as if we can’t go further but it’s true we can’t unless we have the Savior by our side and then truly we go further than ever thought before! I love you all SO MUCH!!!! And miss you all like crazy!!! Till next week! Beaucoup d’amour! Ua here au ia outou! Faaitoito!💙
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!💙
JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE BENNY! Today’s my brother’s birthday and it fell just right to be on P-day! Shout out to him my homie for life! Love you! Crazy week that I had and it flew by! Filled with surprises and wonderful miracles!
Now for some Highlights:
– Surprising split with Elder Larsen (the greenie of our DZs) and he was with us for 2 days! The DZs were in Tahiti for MLC and then had an exchange in Bora Bora after so Elder Larsen just stayed with us! It was great being with him and had a great time together!
– Blitz in our secteur! A Blitz is when all the missionaries in your district come together in another secteur and then we go contacting to help find references for them and it’s so fun to do! This time around it was for our secteur and sadly didn’t have much success but it was still a great day full of little miracles!
– Exchange with Elder Jefferies who’s in Faaroa normally and it was great to be with him! We had an exchange within an exchange! With Elder Larsen and Elder Jefferies but it all was great!
– Wonderful Faatamaraa(member meal) with the family Laufatte (the son of one of my companions)! Also Winter mā(Senior Missionary Couple) came and ate with us and it was so good! Love them and had a wonderful night together!
– Miracle lesson with one of our inactive members that’s coming back to church invited her boyfriend to a lesson so we found a new ami and it was great to meet him! We was very open and liked our message! So we’ll see what happens next!
– Ended our P-day today with a fun hike and got to see all the Islands of the Raromata’i! Or the Society Islands! But we did it as a zone! It was wonderful!
That’s about it for this week but it went by in a flash! 3 weeks till Thanksgiving and 6 till Christmas is crazy! Time is literally flying by! And it’s all my lasts right now! In a weird whirlwind of emotions when you hit your year mark because you start seeing everything you’ve done and how much more I can still experience and so it’s this beautiful time to reflect and see how I can give my all in this time that I have left! I was then reading in my personal studies and read Sister Browning talk titled, “Seeking Answers to Spiritual Questions” and it really touched me and this is a part that I loved that she said, “I testify that placing your trust in Heavenly Father and in His prophets, whom He has sent, will help you to spiritually elevate and push you forward toward God’s expanded horizon. Your vantage will change because you will change. God knows that the higher you are, the farther you can see. Our Savior invites you to make that climb.” I love that analogy of being on this climb of life and to see that the Savior wants us to all climb to see this beautiful view of the miracles and blessings in our lives! I know that when we truly expand our view and trust in this climb of life that the Savior is right by us hand in hand helping us make it to Heavenly Father again! Through our struggles and trials in life we aren’t alone and this climb may be steep and scary at times but we aren’t in it alone but have the Savior right by helping us! 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!💙
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!💙
What a week full of many difficulties and yet some of the most beautiful miracles that I have received my whole mission! It was quite a rough week for me and we had many challenges to face and it wasn’t easy! But we were able to see God’s hand every day and able to stay positive and see beautiful miracles happen! So let’s talk about some of them!
Miracles/Highlights from this last week:
– We had a bike accident with Elder Durham’s bike! Luckily no one got hurt but his piece of his bike that changes gears completely snapped off while we were in the valley of our secteur with NO CELL SERVICE!! We were like what do we do?! So we tried our best to fix it but it was completely destroyed! This guy came up to us and started help us out and i started to talk with him! Found out the person we were going to visit was his wife! So we walked to his house with him and then had a wonderful visit with them and right before we left he asked us for a blessing so I was like of course! So we gave him one and it was absolutely beautiful with tears in his eyes said it was exactly what I needed! He was this sweet papi(grandpa)! I also said the blessing in part French and Tahitian so it was crazy! Gift of Tongues IS REAL!!!
– Surprise Exchange with DZ mā and I got to be with Elder Granger again! It was so good and then we had a huge Soirée Familiale(Family Home Evening) with Taumata mā from Fautaua who are here for work for 1 month and literally felt like we were back in Fautaua! It was a wonderful soirée(evening)! We found so many new amis!!!
– Miraculously got Elder Durham’s bike fixed in less than a day! In Polynesia everything takes so so so much longer and when you ask somebody to do something it takes time but literally it got done so fast and even the guy who fixed the bike said it was a miracle from God and Yes it was!!
That’s about it for this week but wow so amazing to see that even with those challenges I faced there were so many miracles that came and I’m never alone! Like the Prophet has told us that God will manifest more of His hand in our lives then ever before and to always “Seek and Expect Miracles”! That has been my mato of my whole mission is to always seek and expect miracles and they will always happen! His hand is always there and no matter what He’s there to catch us and give us these beautiful miracles! I can testify that He lives and is a God of miracles! They happen every day! We just have to have the eyes to see them! 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☺️🤙🏻🌺
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