Fireworks at the Braves baseball game. I think they're trying to say I'M BACK I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith - 2 Timothy 4:8 Iaorana tatou pauroa! I occasionally put my hand to my chest, right above my heart, looking for that familiar black nametag - but I took it off for good a week ago! It may now have found a spot on the shelf in my room, but it left behind it's imprint on my heart, along with all the new knowledge in my head, and...

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Picture sent by a former missionary's family visiting Tahiti - THANK YOU! Iaorana tatou pauroa! Voilà mon dernier mail en mission! (peut être, je ne sais pas si j'écrirai la semaine prochaine) To- is doing well, we had several lessons with him this week and he's progressing! He's reading, he's praying, he's repenting. It was cute, we did a practice baptism interview with him and for every question he gave great answers and shared his testimony. And when we asked what repentance means to him and if he feels he's fully repented he said "Yes. Well, mostly. There's...

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  Iaorana tatou! We had a great week in Pirae. The secteur sometimes just feels like a larger-scale and more crowded version of Mahina: a mix of rich neighborhoods up in the mountains and poorer neighborhoods in the valleys in between. We spent a good part of the week looking for new investigators. President Bize has more or less told both Soeur Ni- and I to avoid straight-up door-to-door tracting because it's not very effective in our area, so we're trying to find other ideas, such as searching for the old investigators that we still have phone numbers...

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Iaorana tatou, So yesterday I said the rest of my goodbyes to Mahina! Turns out I'm transferred and will serve my last 3 weeks in the Pirae 2nd ward. That's pretty close to the main city, Papeete. But that's pretty much all I know about it. My companion is Soeur Ni-, from the states! She's already getting ready to kill me in three weeks ;) But we had a good week for my last week in Mahina. On Tuesday we had lessons and did some tracting. We got a cute call from our less active friend Ma-. She asked us to come...

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Iaorana tatou! This week was a nice pick me up, because after weeks and weeks of struggling to find people to teach, we finally found quite a few new investigators! We contacted some old investigators, we changed up our normal routine, we went into a neighborhood we rarely go to. It was nice to see new blood and fresh views haha. We also talked to an abnormal number of Jehovah's Witnesses, so that was interesting. But He- was out of town and we didn't see him all week, so that was weird. We finally ran into him yesterday...

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Iaorana tatou! Long story short: Tuesday we had He-'s baptismal interview and we did some tracting. We ended up playing soccer with some kids. Wednesday we had lessons with some investigators and in actives (M- A-'s husband bought and is going to fix up a broken down car- she'll be able to come back to church! Her excuses for not coming were that her husband wouldn't let her borrow his car or be dependent on someone else for a ride. Voila her solution! It a downright miracle to be honest.) and we had English class. Thursday we had...

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Iaorana tatou! I have no time left, but yet another good week in the field. He- is ready for his baptism this Saturday. Turns out his mysterious problem was just rowing competitions that would prevent him from coming to church on Sundays, such as for his confirmation. Which would leave him with only half a baptism, because baptism is not finished without the confirmation and gift of the Holy Ghost. But he's got it figured out now so that he will only row during the week. Yay for the Sabbath Day! We visited Hi- again this week and...

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