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 Iaorana tout le monde! Happy Easter! 



However, if you were in the Mahina Ward, you would have never known it was easter. For some reason all the talks were on family history and we did not sing a single easter hymn. We were bitter. 


This week was very long but very good! 


I will start with the sad news. 

Tevainui, our friend we teach in Tahitian, moved back to her island this week. We knew that she lived on another island and was just visiting her aunt, but we assumed it was an island with missionaries. 

However, she is from an island so small that government policy prohibits anyone from even visiting unless they are related to a resident. There is also no internet on the island. While it is sad to see that we will have to stop teaching Tevainui because of this, I have hope that someday, somehow, there will be a way for her to receive the strength and peace she has been looking for. 


Other events, in no particular order: 

We were at a fatam (member meal.) A cockroach enters. The wife shrieks and yells for her husband. With incredible lightning-fast, gorilla-like reflexes, this man drops all of his tasks and runs to the other side of the apartment. With his bare hand, he slaps the cockroach dead. 🪳 

(Since then, both Sr Paul and I have killed cockroaches by slapping them. It is really the most efficace (effective) way to kill those giant flying cockroaches. It also gives you a huge adrenaline boost. 10/10 would recommend) 


We visited the trois cascades! Very pretty. 


We met Alexandre, who makes tikis for a living! 


There is a kid in our neighborhood. Everytime he sees us, he says "iaorana les mormons!!" A member rounds him and all of the other neighborhood kids up each Sunday and takes them to church. 

This week, we were walking through our area, and this lady came out of her house and told us she wanted us to come teach their son about the Bible. We came back on Sunday, and it was the same kid! We taught Ariimanuhere and his whole family and it was a very tender lesson ❤. I am very excited to keep teaching this family! 


Puaua will be baptized this week! 


Yesterday for easter I read the talk "Sunday Will Come" by Joseph B Wirthlin. I love the title: Christ died on a friday. No matter how dark the fridays in our life, there is always the hope for Sunday- the day Christ was resurrected. Fridays, sadness, tears, and pain are followed by sundays of joy and smiles and laighter because of what Christ has done for us.

"In an instant the eyes that had been filled with ever-flowing tears dried. The lips that had whispered prayers of distress and grief now filled the air with wondrous praise, for Jesus the Christ, the Son of the living God, stood before [her] as the firstfruits of the Resurrection, the proof that death is merely the beginning of a new and wondrous existence”


"weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."

Psalms 30:5


I love you all! Je vous aime! 


I really like the word interdit so now Sr Paul insists on taking a picture we see the word interdit. 












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