Une cuillère de sucre aide le RAAU à descendre


 Iaorana tout le monde! 



Some events: 

Heiti got baptized! I am so proud of her. It was a really amazing baptism and she seemed so so happy. It was also her birthday! Yay Heiti!

Red (crazy Tahitian papi who speaks 0 French) came to church! Unfortunately, church happened to be 100% in French that day- not even a Tahitian hymn- but I think he still enjoyed it. 

Sr Day got sick. We called the new mission nurse and expected her to say something simple upon the lines of "oh, just take a nap and drink lots of water!" 
But no. 

The mission nurse sent Sr Jorgensen and I on a wild ginger chase at 9:30 pm. We needed to make a RAAU (Tahitian word for medecin.) We walked through our neighborhood, found someone with ginger, made the raau, and all 4 of us were forced to drink it?, all while staying on a video call with the mission nurse. I was not happy at having to drink disgusting hot lemon water at 10:45 pm, but the mission nurse kind of scares me so you just have to go with the flow. 

I would also like to bear my testimony on the importance of the 8th commandment. 
"Thou shall not steal." I think we skip over this one because it's pretty self explanatory, but on Thursday we went contacting and I walked past a star fruit tree. I really wanted a star fruit and had an inner battle for maybe 2 minutes, debating at whether it was okay to take some home. I finally decided to not steal the star fruit and we left, proud of our self mastery but sad because of our lack of Star fruit. The next day, we were given 16 star fruits! Blessings in abundance. 🙌🙌🙌 Keep the commandments folks. 

And now, a quote from President Nelson that I liked this week. 

"Imagine the miracle of it! Whatever our Church calling, we can pray to our Heavenly Father and receive guidance and direction, be warned about dangers and distractions, and be enabled to accomplish things we simply could not do on our own. If we will truly receive the Holy Ghost and learn to discern and understand His promptings, we will be guided in matters large and small."

I love you all! Je vous aime tous et ua here au ia outou! 


Ps... I read a word in tahitian this week had not 2 not 3 but SEVEN vowels in a row. Something like faaaueueraa. 









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