Iaorana tatou, Hope you all had a good week! This week felt like we were "back to normal" because the past few weeks have been so busy getting ready for the baptism and zone conference and all that good stuff. We taught a ton of lessons and found some potential investigators and worked with members and all around pretty normal week. Sorry to disappoint but we did absolutely nothing to celebrate Thanksgiving. Hope you all had a great holiday! To make up for it, here's some tender mercies I'm grateful for this week:  We had some time to...

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Iaorana tatou! It's been a busy and blessed week! Tuesday started out with multi-zone conference, with Elder Cardon of the Seventy visiting for a mission tour. He encouraged us to be more bold and described how we are the arms of the Lord, helping to gather Israel. I could really tell that he was following the Spirit and telling us just what we need to hear. Wednesday morning the power was shut off for some road work or something, and we couldn't figure out how to manually open our automatic gate so we jumped over the gate. With...

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Iaorana tatou, So to be honest this week was a bit of a roller coaster, particularly with our ami A-. Here goes: Monday through Wednesday was great, both he and his friend Th- (sorry, we got that wrong last week, it's Th-, not J-) came to Family Home Evening on Monday, Tuesday we had a lesson with A-and on Wednesday we started the Plan of Salvation with Th-. (sidenote: He's already in 2nd Nephi and it's only been like a week! He's awesome. He told us that it's going to take him a long time to want to...

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Iaorana tatou Is it really Monday again? Things are moving along here in Mahaiatea. First of all A- accepted a baptismal date!!! On Tuesday our district helped him plant flowers and some fruit trees, which was lots of fun. On Thursday he introduced us to his friend J-, who we've now started teaching! A-'s already a great missionary. Anyway, we had fixed the next lesson for Saturday, but on Friday night we decided to stop by anyway. We wanted to engage A- for baptism again but wanted to do it when J- wasn't there. Well J- was there...

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