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Iaorana tatou, Not much to report on this week! The work goes on. Tuesday we had several lessons as usual, Wednesday I had a split with ...

Iaorana tatou,

Not much to report on this week! The work goes on.

Tuesday we had several lessons as usual, Wednesday I had a split with the wonderful Soeur No-. She served in Tuauru ( the other secteur of Mahina ) while I was in Matavai, and we reunited for a day in Mahina. It was lots of fun! She has a habit of doing the dishes after members feed us, whether they like it or not, and they always get very flustered which is funny. She said that people have even hid the dirty dishes in their fridge or stood in front of her with a knife but it doesn't phase her and she always wins out of pure stubbornness.

Thursday we watched Meet the Mormons for a neighborhood family home evening, and Friday we visited inactives. Saturday we were tracting in a richer neighborhood and found Ma-, an inactive woman who wants to come back to church! She's been inactive for a long time, so long that I'm not sure the ward even knows about her, but now she think's she's ready to try and come back. She has lots of questions and has probably forgotten a lot, but I'm so excited to help her!

Sunday we had a stake fireside, the same fireside that helped Br- from Matavai decide to be baptized a little over a year ago. It was a huge success last year so they decided to bring it back. It's a play about genealogy: in short, spirits in the spirit world ask if anyone has found their name to take to the temple to be baptized or sealed to their family. The actors represent their actual ancestors that they've found while doing family history work. It's hard to explain but let's just say everyone was crying. Side note: one of the character's middle name was Ladd! Maybe we're family!!

For my spiritual thought, I want to share a quote from a talk called the Fourth Missionary, about giving our will to God. "Trust Him that He will make of you, immeasurably more than what you will ever, ever, in all eternity, make of yourself. He will create of you a masterpiece. You will create of you only a smudge. You will create of you an ordinary man. He will create a god." That's one thing I've learned on my mission! We of ourselves probably won't ever be enough, but with him we'll always be enough!

That's pretty much my week!

Are y'all ready for General Conference? I am!!!

Soeur Ladd

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