EXPRESS ๐Ÿ‘ THE ๐Ÿ‘ FEELINGS ๐Ÿ‘OF YOUR๐Ÿ‘HEART๐Ÿ‘


 Iaorana tatou. 


Do you remember Papi Reid? Because I do and I have a story for you. 
Papi Reid is this wild Papi we found, taught, and baptised while I was in Mahina. He only speaks Biblical tahitian, but for every lesson he would say the exact same prayer in French. We couldn't really understand his French, and his prayer was kind of weird, but we taught him how to pray and he understood so รงa va. 
This week, the sisters finally figured out that, for EVERY SINGLE LESSON, Reid has been in fact simply just reciting the directions for how to say a prayer in a missionary brochure. These directions are given so that you don't give a memorized prayer, but he outsmarted us all and memorized the directions. His French was so thick so we just never understood but behold his prayer (to be read while grunting like Papi)

1. Address your Heavenly Father.
2. Express the feelings of your heart (gratitude, ask, questions, confirmation of what the missionaries said.)
3. End your prayer by saying "in the name of Jesus Christ." 

This week has been good! 
Some highlights: 
-Our friend Kuranui came to church! We also had an inactive member and her excommunicated daughter come which was so awesome! 
-I an so so excited for next transfer! We got our transfer news and I will be ending my mission in Hitiaa with Sล“ur Mapuna! I am super excited! I will be an stl over taravao, which is like half the island of Tahiti so I will be back in a car area. ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ˜Ž
-made poisson cru all by myself
-our friend Karina, who has told us she is not interested when she in fact IS interested, said yes to getting baptized! This was probably the biggest miracle of the transfer! Prayer for her because she needs a lot of faaitoito but she is so so ready!

Some lowlights: 
-a stray cat came into our house and ate only the top layer of the brownies that Sr Hatch and Sr Cloud had just made. Chaotic EVIL. It was funny because everyone immediately blamed Sr Paul and then we realized it was the cat. 

I am very grateful for the chance to have served in Ruatama, Faaa for a second time. I was not happy about coming here, but I have learned that God's plan is incredibly perfect and that He knows what He needs. 
If there is anything I have learned this transfer, it is that repentance and forgiveness are sacred and empowering actions. The repentance and forgiveness processes bring peace and lift our burdens. When we forgive others, we have the privilege of seeing others how Heavenly Father sees them- with love and an eternal perspective. Don't hold on to grudges and hurt- letting them go helps us move forward with hope! 

Je vous aime! J'ai hรขte pour taravao! 











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