Elder Braden Kerr Mission

 Well, the last three weeks it has rained every day, and holy moly is it cold! I never thought that I would be freezing here in Tahiti, but voilà there you have it. Honestly, though, we got a little bit of sun yesterday and that was awesome. We got some today too, so good stuff. Life goes on.   It was a pretty hard week, I think we taught a total of 5 lessons, but we had a few miracles that showed us that the Lord was with us. Thursday was a really long hard day where it was dumping rain and EVERYTHING was canceled. At 6pm we had one hour left and we had literally no idea what to do. We said a prayer for help, and the name of one family came to mind, and we were like, well, let's go. We went to their house and the dad let us in, and the spirit was immediately super strong and we knew that everything was canceled to lead us to that place at that moment. It is a member family who has a ton of trials right now. We saw that the mom was holding some hymn books, and we knew immedia

Well, I decided out of my love for all of you and my desire to help you all in any way I can to write another email this week. Actually, I just didn't receive any to respond to and I can't skype, so I have nothing better to do. Well, here goes nothing.    I'm starting my last transfer!! I am staying here where I have been since the start of the year, and it's where I'm gonna finish. I'm excited though, my new companion is named Elder Ribera and he is French, and I'm actually the only American in my house, so I am really gonna be able to perfect my French this last transfer. Time is going by so fast!! I don't want it to end!    Ok, I need to give a shout out to my last companion, Elder Ward. He is ending his mission today, and he was a great companion. And on Sunday, he gave one of the best talks I have ever heard given. His whole family are all converts, and he told the story, starting with his dad, but as if it wasn't his family. All in the

 Well, before you all go saying how I'm way less excited than usual, let me just inform you that my exclamation mark key is broken, so voila. I may have already passed my two-year limit there, so there you go.   Anyway, the highlight of the week was without a doubt seeing the Prophet come to Tahiti. It was awesome. Incredible. Wow these periods are bland. Anyway, I just have to share how incredible what the prophet said was. The whole experience was great, but his message was so inspired. I have spent 22 months here in Tahiti talking every day with people who are struggling spiritually, and what the prophet said was EXACTLY what the people here needed. He addressed the specific needs so beautifully, you would have thought that he had lived his whole life here. I know that President Nelson is a Prophet of God. Is THE Prophet of God. I have felt the Spirit testify of that multiple times, and I felt it again Friday night. If you want your own confirmation of the spirit, watch hi

Well, how awesome is that!!! It's confirmed! There have been rumors that the Prophet would be coming for a few months now, but seeing how many times people have told me that Trump Nuked some part of the world, I've learned not to trust the rumors that I hear. But this one turned out to be true!   We don't have a ton of details, but I will keep everyone updated. We aren't sure if all the missionaries will be able to see him, but let's keep praying for that!   Other than that we had a pretty normal week... oh wait, it was actually a crazy week!! Well, one crazy thing happened. Now, don't worry, everyone is fine, but we got in a little car crash. We got rear-ended (How ironic, it was while we were going to Papeete to get the car checked out to see how much we could sell it for). So that was a crazy day, going to the doctor, the insurance and everything, we were in Papeete all day. And now I'm back today to get it checked out again. It takes about a

Well, not messing around today, wasn't conference incredible!!!! Holy cow I have never felt so spiritually enlightened in all of my life! I was really wondering why this conference was so powerful, and I think I realized what it was. It was how I prepared for it. Our mission President encouraged us to re-read all of the talks from the First Presidency and the 12 Apostles the month leading up to conference, and to write down what we were inspired to do. That was a super inspiring activity that got me pumped for conference.    Thanks to that, I prayed a lot to be able to really focus on the talks and learn and know what to apply. I was so inspired!! Holy cow, when the Prophet spoke, he spoke with the power and authority that could only come from a Prophet of God. If you haven't heard his talks yet, go listen to them, they were incredible. I have already listened to the one in the priesthood session three times.   Another cool thing this week is that for some reason, we ga