Iaorana tatou! I hope you all had a very merry Christmas! How have you lit the world this season? On Tuesday we decided we were tired of boring old door-to-door contacting so we decided to try singing! It turns out it was a great excuse to talk to or visit people, so whenever we had some free time, we visited our amis, members, inactive members to sing a humble Christmas carol. We even found some new investigators. On Saturday, some brothers in the ward prepared food for us to give to some families in need. And yesterday we...

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Iaorana tatou! I passed my year mark last Friday... It feels like ages ago and just yesterday at the same time. It's almost Christmas again! Highlights from this Christmas-y week: This year our mission decided that instead of a white elephant exchange at the mission Christmas party, we would all give some small gifts to families in need. Soeur J- chose a sweet young mother that we teach, C-, and I'm glad we did because turns out she had had a really hard weekend. We also anonymously dropped off a package of food and chocolate at a part...

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Iaorana tatou, I can drive stick shift now! The beginning of the week was a bit slow as far as proselyting goes because I spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday learning to drive but now that's out of the way and the rest of the week was pretty normal. Highlights of the week include eating cake with president Bize for his birthday because Soeur S and I were conveniently at the mission office at the right time; watching a classic missionary driving safety film including comparing diving safety to the first vision, and a slightly crazy Marquisian papi...

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Iaorana tatou, Well it's been an interesting few days. Transfers have come around again, and while as of Friday night Soeur Lu- and I were meant to stay together in Mahaiatea, at our ward activity on Saturday I got a call from the assistants. There was a last minute change in the transfer, and therefore I am now writing this email from... Mahina! Mahina is the secteur right next to my first secteur, Matavai, so i'm back in my old house - it's really weird! I did several exchanges in Mahina and I'll surely run into a lot...

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