Today is transfers which means I've been here for one whole transfer, and les bleus will be coming in tonight which means I will no longer be the baby district! I know several of les bleus, those that will be coming from Provo. Transfer calls came in last Friday night - the big sporting event of the Tahiti Papeete mission. Apparently some sisters had a whole March Madness transfer bracket going or something. As for me and Soeur D, President had actually confirmed a few days before, via our Ward Mission Leader, that we will be staying together...

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This week we've been packed; lots and lots of lessons. About a third of them were actually with inactives and recent converts, they seem to really need our help right now. Enduring to the end is tough! Especially because, some parts of our secteur, well... Let's just say it's hard to be a Saint in Babylon. But the Gospel and the Book of Mormon are powerful! In the strength of the Lord we can do all things. Dad pointed out that I haven't said much about the food here. It's really good! Lots of rice and bread as...

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So. There's this one couple, and they've been taking the lessons for months. We visit them usually about four times a week (that's a lot) and to be honest, I usually would leave frustrated. Their baptism was fixed for the beginning of March, but in the weeks leading up to it I would just look at them and honestly I wasn't sure if they would ever be ready. As B, the husband, would say - "Qui ne veut pas douter?" (Who wouldn't doubt?) Anyway, it's a week before their original date, and they haven't finished their papers for...

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Chère famille et chers amis! Well yesterday I finished my second planner, in other words it's been almost 12 weeks! One highlight of the week was the baptism of T - if you think you know what a golden investigator is, you don't because you haven't met T. As I understand it, the first time the missionaries met him, he came up and said, "Hey, I'm going to be baptized on March 1st, can I take the lessons?" "Um... Sure! That would probably be a good idea!" That was a month or two ago, and last Tuesday the...

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Bonjour les amis! So apparently the theme of this week was HOPE. Here's why: It starts, actually, with my mom's email from last week. She included this excerpt from an article about hope: (from: Hope: The Misunderstood Sister By Larry Hiller) I think of them as three famous sisters whose names are frequently linked, always in the same order: Faith, Hope, and Charity. They are mentioned several times in the New Testament and with remarkable frequency in the Book of Mormon. Of the three, Faith may be the most well known and popular, the one whose companionship is sought...

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