So some of the lessons with investigators this week have been great. Our old investigator is now our teacher, and she went to Tahiti three years ago on her mission and she is super fun to talk to about Tahiti! Now we teach both of our teachers as two separate investigators. So pretty much every day they teach us and we teach them, which is cool. Anyway, we have been able to spend lots of time focusing on improving our lessons, because pretty much all we do is teach and then learn how to teach better. We decided to be ultra focused on just bringing the spirit for our lesson yesterday evening. We spent a while on the plan, but made sure to be open to the spirit, and the lesson went amazing! We probably only covered about half of what our original plan was, but she asked some really hard questions, and we were able to answer with our testimony and with the scriptures. The spirit was so strong it was amazing! Learning a new language has been such a blessing for me, because in English I would have tried to explain everything, but since it is all in French, I am pretty much forced to let the spirit handle all the teaching in the lessons, and it is so great!
On our Sunday night devotional, they made everyone watch a video of one of Elder Bednar's talks. Usually they let us choose to watch one of many different talks, and I was kind of bummed because the one they were having us watch was the same one I watched last week. But it was still great the second time. And then after it ended they came up and said, "Now that you have finished watching his talk, he is here with his wife to talk to all of you. It was crazy, he is basically a rock star here and everyone freaked out. And for the next hour, Elder Bednar and Sister Bednar just took questions and answered them, it was so amazing! The learning opportunities here are just unbelievable. I have never learned so much in so short of a time, both in the gospel and in the language.
I really don't have a whole lot more to say. I love it here, but now that we are in a pretty set routine, I don't need to fill my emails with what it's like here, because its all the same as it was last week. One funny story to end though. We went to the temple this morning, and somehow my companion, Elder Ashworth, locked his key in his locker. We had to go ask for help, and someone brought a master key, and for some reason that wouldn't even unlock it. So then they called up security and finally managed to get in, after about half an hour. Right afterwords we were able to go to the temples lost and found and pick up the watch he left there last week. We are really getting to know the temple workers. Elder Ashworth must just have bad luck there, and he is still the best companion ever! Well, that's about all for this week. Thanks for all the support!
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