Bonjour a le monde!
This week flew by. It's
crazy how time is moving here. Sœur Moli and I have been together for
one transfer. One down, one to go. We're going to be able to spend
Christmas here in Maraa. The next group of missionaries are going to be
coming the 30th of December.
We heard there's 17, with 11 sisters coming in. I'm hoping to be sent
to an island, or train again... We'll see in a few weeks what's going to
happen!
We
met the meanest lady in all of Polynésie Français. Wow. So, we have
a "baptism" this week for the nicest couple (Jacques and Marquerite).
They live in a shack up on the mountain, with a HUGE garden. They grow
their own vegetables and sell them, and they always give us some when we
go visit them. Anyway, the land is owned by their grandma. Who is HUGE
into the protestant Church. This week she told the couple if they get
baptised they can't live on the land anymore. And... they have no where
else to go. So we went and talked to their grandma. She said no. So
we're going back this week. And we'll go back until she says yes.
It's also been the week of "Marry off Sœur Taylor." For
some odd reason... Everyone has been trying to get me to marry someone
in their family this week.... Nope. Can't. And... I'm not interested.
My
stomach is iron. Before my mission, I couldn't eat sea food without
gagging. At the beginning of my mission, I couldn't eat sea food without
gagging. What did I eat this week? Imagine with me.. You have delicious
batter. You scoop a large handful of live, baby fish. You put that
handful into the batter, and then you fry the batter just a little bit.
Then. You eat it. The worst is when the fish were sticking out after
you took a bit... And. It was delicious. (I just had to demonstrate what I'm talking about. Enjoy the journal pictures.)
The
most interesting quote of the week. It came from a 88 year old lady,
and it sounds better in Tahitian, but, "Don't give the Bible to the
cockroaches! You have to use it." She was talking about how most people
have a bible, but they never read it, they just let it get dusty in the
corner. That was a pretty fun conversation. We teach a lot of old
ladies... They're funny.
Speaking of Mamis... Mami Wong is getting baptised this
weekend!! It's been a long time coming. I've taught her since July, the
only slight problem is, she's not getting baptised into our ward. So,
we don't know if we're going to be able to go to her baptism! Hopefully.
Hopefully. I love that lady to death. :)
What did I learn this week? Well. I can only do my best. And always take members to your lessons.
We taught a témoigne Jéhovah investigator this
week. The last lesson was AWESOME. He was open, he was Learning, and
this week that drastically changed. He had talked to some of the
leaders of his Church, and told him some very crazy, anti-mormon
stories. He gave us no time to explain, he was just ranting and yelling
for 45 minutes. I just stopped him and told him he wasn't open to our
message, and he has to ask God if the things he's heard are true or not.
It's as simple as that. When I said that he had this crazy look in his
eyes, and started yelling at us. Thankfully, our members stopped him and
told him to chill out.
I tried to help him. But he has his free agency. I can only do my part, he has to do the rest.
I
was so sad after that lesson. Why is it so hard just to ask God so you
can know for yourself? I will never take anyone's word for anything,
especially the important things like our salvation (yeah, it's slightly a
big deal.) Why not pray and ask if it's real? Why not?
That's what we teach. Find out for yourself. Don't take
our word for it, because we're imperfect. We have our own testimony. We
KNOW this is the true Church. But you have to ask God so you can KNOW
also.
Ua
ite au e ekalesia mau i teie ekalesia. E peropheta mau O Iosepha
Semita. No te aha? Mai te mea ua pure au e ua farii au i te pahonoraa no
te Atua. E mea haamaruru no i teie taime ua rave to'u misioni e ia
parau no i te mau tamarii o te Atua na roto i te fenua i Tahiti. Ua
here au ia outou!!
Have a good week!
Love,
Sœur Taylor
--
Tahiti Papeete Mission
Soeur Taylor, Morgan
B.P. 93
Papeete, Tahiti
98713
French Polynesia.
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