January 24, 2011

I'm trying to keep the delicate balance of trying to work without upsetting my companion. It's good though, the more success we have the more he is encouraged to go. Me too, actually. We're finally starting to get a little more settled here. People are starting to get to know us and like us. Just yesterday we were with our branch president at this guy's house but he wasn't there so we started talking to these two old guys. They just loved us; they couldn't get over their excitement that I spoke Tahitian and some Rurutu too. They were just like "You gotta come back so we can get you perfect". I hope they realize that they will feel the spirit and they will be baptised. Hah, seriously though it was the most fluent I have ever spoken; not one word was out of place. I felt like for that moment there I was truly given the gift of tongues because normally my Tahitian and my Rurutu aren't so clear and easy. Anyways, point being we've made a lot of contacts and most of them fixed lessons for this week. Although as we all know just about when this sector has lots of lessons and baptisms and stuff I'll get transferred just like the other ones. It's OK I'll just live with it. If that's the life I'm supposed to live so be it. Oh also I forgot to tell you last week.

You asked me if I had found out that thing that I was supposed to do on my mission that no one else could. Well Sunday morning I was reading in D&C and I was kind of distracted by that question. So I asked to receive the answer. In the subtitle alone I received my response. It's all like "The Lord tells Oliver to be patient" Crap. Well there's the answer. I don't know if the rest of the section is applicable or not but either way I know that I've just got to keep looking. Not just asking but searching too. Otherwise it was a pretty normal week. I guess actually my companions bike broke and he had to poop and we were blocked at every turn. No one was home and everywhere was closed. Well finally w"e figured it out. Then we had to get to another city with only one bike... Yeah basically we looked ridiculous. I got on the handle bars and held his bike whilst he peddled. Everyone loves the Mormons cause they do weird stuff like that.. Point being we made it to our two lessons who both bailed on us. Dang! Well anyways that was that. We're still saving the world one service project at a time. Saturday we planted tapioca so that the Ward can go to the temple. Cute huh? Lots of people got stung by the evil bees but it's okay because we burned them and I got some funny videos of it.