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 "Comment dit-on iaorana en afrikans?" 

---some little kid after learning I was from America. 

hello and iaorana and bonjour

-I started out this week by learning a new word: fuite. Our downstairs neighbor who happens to be a member calls us and starts going off about a fuite in our house. I, being stupid, did not understand and just rambled off a response like "ohhh sorry frere that we dropped something! We will go pick it up!" This frustrated the frere. 
It turns out fuite means leak and there was a leak in our pipes that caused one of their ceiling panels to crumble to the ground. 

And that was the only really interesting thing that happened this week. We had to stop teaching a lot of our friends, and struggled to find ANY new friends.... except for Agath. 
In our area, there is a corner that is lovingly called crêpe corner ™. This is where a bunch of men in faaa just chill, cat call the sister missionaries, and get super drunk on a Wednesday at like 2 pm. It is super sad but we don't feel super safe at this corner, so we usually just pass it by. Crepe corner is right across the street from our church, so we pass it every day, but we speed walk it. Last week, we decided to go through all the creepy men and yell iaorana at the apartment right behind crêpe corner ™. We met Agath! Agath has seen the missionaries walk past her apartment everyday and has been interested in learning about what goes on in the church literally just across the street, but the missionaries have never stopped... until us! It was a cool miracle and she is a super duper sweet Mami. 🥰

General conference is this week! I encourage you all to not only watch it, but to watch it with gratitude because you don't have to wake up at 5 am to catch the Tahiti broadcast. I have been going through and re-reading all of the messages from the last conference. Here are some messages I've learned: 
-Stumbling blocks can be turned into stepping stones of progression, if we choose to have optimism. 
-we can't eradicate evil with more evil. 
-let us humbly put ourselves in a position where Jesus can lift us, lead us, and make the most of our abilities.

Je vous aime! Ua here au ia outou! 
Sœur Plumber 

To explain the video: we are listening to music in the car. The song ends and we ask Sr Tefaataumarama to chose the next song. Instead of choosing another song, she has us all pull out our hymnbooks and she leads us in our favorite hymns







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