Rainy Season / Sent Sept. 24, 2018


Man it rained a lot this week. Sometimes I miss being on bike, but man was I grateful for the car this week. It was always kind of sad and kind of funny when the other Elders in our house came back soaked every night because they were on bike. For some odd reason the hot water in our house is powered by solar panels. So whenever its blazing hot outside, we have warm water. But when it's windy and rainy and cold we have to take cold showers. Good times.

  So, I have to share, I had one of the most spiritually powerful lessons of my whole mission this week. We have an investigator named Teva, who has a baptismal date for this friday. Well last saturday at the lesson he had read some negative stuff from another religion, and he was confused and his testimony was really shaken. I was praying so hard for him, and I have never before felt the spirit guide me like it did in that lesson. I felt like the prophets in the Book of Mormon teaching with power and authority. We were all overcome by the spirit as Elder Desormeaux, our Ward Mission Leader, and I all were able to explain the doctrine clearly and bear powerful testimony. Teva was super touched and now his testimony is stronger than ever! I love this work so much!!!

  One fun thing we did this week was what we call "cold calls", basically we just spend an hour and called everyone in our phone we didn't know. It was really funny, we just start out "Hey! How are you!?" And they are always hesitant and ask who we are, but most the time they are cool when we tell them we are the missionaries. We found more success doing that in one hour than we did in about three hours of door to door earlier that day, and it was funner, so win win. The last guy we called talked to my companion for 18 minutes. I don't know how you can talk on the phone with someone for that long when you don't even know them, but hey, I guess that's Tahiti.
  Love you all, have a great week!

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