Bonjour! We're doing well here in little Matavai! I'm feeling better about planning and leading the secteur and the amis are doing lovely! Once again I haven't got much time to write, and nothing too exciting happened, but I'll leave you with a little thought. I've been thinking about grace and works. We talked to those Christian missionaries again and the main difference between our beliefs and theirs have to do with the age-old question "Have you been saved by grace?" In the end I keep thinking about a scripture and a quote: Moroni 10:32-33*, and from Brad...

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Iaorana tatou! First of all, sorry about last week, it was our last choir practice before the concert last night, so it went long, and plus it was transfers! So by the time I got to my mail, p-day was almost over. Speaking of transfers, I have a lovely new companion, Soeur T! She's Tahitian and awesome, but more on that later. As for the other week, nothing too big and exciting. We knew that transfers were coming up and Soeur D would soon be leaving since she spent six months in Matavai. We got the official call...

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Iaorana tatou! We had another rainy week last week, and it will continue this week apparently. It's nice in some ways: it's not as hot, and everyone stays home so it's harder for them to avoid us. However, there are a million moustiques when it rains and someone had the brilliant idea to make a solar powered hot water heater, so that we have hot water when it's hot, but cold water when it's cold. ;) As I was looking back through my planner over what we did this week, I remembered a few times where I've thought...

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