Iaorana tatou! If I remember my Marquesian correctly, kaoha!
This week was rough. I had a cold-not fun at all- but if I am looking on the bright side, I did win 2 free popsicles so life is good. Most of the week was spent taking naps, but even if we didn't get to go out a ton, we still saw a lot of cool miracles!
On Saturday, we found Ishmael! He told us that he would come to church. Normally, when people say this, they are lying and don't come to church. However, Ishmael came! We realized at church yesterday that he comes to church every week, but is not à member! He says that the time is now right for him to follow the lessons and he wants to get baptized!
On thursday, we did what is called à "Sortir sur la terrain." I wasn't sûre What this meant but we simply sat in a members car while she drove around Mahina and gave us all the détails on her neighbors. Very efficace.
I truly cannot understand how I have stretched 0 stories into an email, so I apologize to all those who have gotten this far.
My pensée spirituelle comes with the Teikihuavanaka family! The husband Mike and all the children are récent converts and the whole family very recently started coming to church. We had a fatamaaraa with them this week and oh my goodness I love this family so much. They are so Christlike and devoted and faithful.
What amazes me is that if I served in Mahina à year ago, I wouldn't know any of them. A year ago, Mike and the kids weren't members and none of them knew about the gospel. Now, this family is one of the strongest familles in our ward and I honestly couldn't imagine Mahina without them.
What this teaches me is the importance of every single person to our Heavenly Father. Everyone has à value and importance and the church or à neighborhood or à family wouldn't be the same without one individual.
Here's a long Jeffrey R Holland quotes that explains this idea better than I can:
Brothers and sisters, we live in a mortal world with many songs we cannot or do not yet sing. But I plead with each one of us to stay permanently and faithfully in the choir, where we will be able to savor forever that most precious anthem of all—“the song of redeeming love.” Fortunately, the seats for this particular number are limitless. There is room for those who speak different languages, celebrate diverse cultures, and live in a host of locations. There is room for the single, for the married, for large families, and for the childless. There is room for those who once had questions regarding their faith and room for those who still do. There is room for those with differing sexual attractions. In short, there is a place for everyone who loves God and honors His commandments as the inviolable measuring rod for personal behavior, for if love of God is the melody of our shared song, surely our common quest to obey Him is the indispensable harmony in it. With divine imperatives of love and faith, repentance and compassion, honesty and forgiveness, there is room in this choir for all who wish to be there. “Come as you are,” a loving Father says to each of us, but He adds, “Don’t plan to stay as you are.”
Je vous aime! Ua here au ia outou!
Nana!
Sœur Rheume
Pictures includes gutter eels and my pretty companion!
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