So, I made a list of things that I forgot to tell you last week, so I'll start with that.
We had a baptism last weekend! For Yvonne and Leila!! Mom and daughter. It was incredible. I don´t know how to send pics from this place, but I´ll try to figure out for next week! Cause I took pics. Also! As of last week, I am officially out of training! Chyeah! There's a new 12 week program here in the field for trainers and the new missionaries. And it´s great. I also finished PMG (Preach my Gospel) last week, in English! Which I was pretty excited about. All the scriptures, little activities, etc. Now I´m gonna do it in French!
I´ve been working on my free throws with Soeur Kailiponi chaque matin. each morning Mom, Jdawg, Becs, Amber, all my basketball buds would be proud. She taught me thetechnique, like how I´m supposed to shoot. It´s great! And!! last week, during port a port, I got my first door slammed in my face!! Now, obviously it would´ve been better if they had accepted, but I was pretty excited, cause like I described in an earlier email, port a port here is standing on the edge of properties and yelling Bonjour! Like a crazy. And usually people just ignore you. I´m gonna have a complex when I get home... But yah. It was a fun change.
Now this week. hah. Oh man. How do I even start this. Ok, well. I´m moving again!! Surprise. My third sector in less than 4 months of being in the field. (For those of you that don´t know, that´s strange. Especially for Soeurs, cause when I got here, there were only 3 sectors for us. And a lot of the Soeurs are still in the same sector they´ve been in since long before I got here.) But here´s what happened slash what´s going to happen... So the
ZL´s called me when we were doing some port a port this Thursday. And they asked to talk to me and they asked me to sit down. hah. That was my first hint. So, I take a seat on the sidewalk, and they ask me if I´d accept the call to open a sector (Sixieme) WITH SOEUR LAMB. My mtc mish field twinsie. It´s crazy! And this never happens. Not only am I on my third sector, but I will have also been comps with both of the Soeurs I was in the MTC with. BAH!! So yes. I´m super stoked. I´m actually still in Paita, and probs will be for the next week, because the ZL´s are finishing furnishing the appartement (French spelling of appartment) and all that jazz, but after that, I´ll be there. CRAZY. I´m stoked, naturally, but please please pray extra hard for me. Cause this is
brand spanking new. We´re gonna be doing LOTS of finding. Which I´m stoked about, but it´s just weird to think that there will not be an area book, with names of anciens amis or recent converts, or any of that. So yah. Prayers please. I´m really excited though! And I know that I can do this with the Lord´s help.Oh I´m stoked. Especially cause Soeur Lamb and I are gonna have waaay too much fun together. She´s the best! Also, pray that I´ll be able to speak french. It´s always so hard with American companions. I love them, but it´s so hard to speak French with them. So yah, I´ll let you know when I get all moved and stuff, might be next week, or the week after
that. On verra. We'll see.Anyways! This week has been amazing! We are finding people to teach! And it´s INCREDIBLE! Oh how I love this work. I see literal MIRACLES before my eyes, chaque jour. each day And it´s incredible. Even in this last week, amazing things have happened. I cannot explain how happy I am. So, miracle number one. We were port a porting Tuesday, I believe, and we talked to this young man, he´s probably 20 something, Wallisian, and we just talked to him for a bit, and left him with a brochure. It wasn´t even a legit lesson, and usually that´s how that ends. But he called us the very same night and was like, "I just wanted to let you know, I read the brochure..." And we were all like, what. Cause people never do that. Like ever. Usually when you just leave a brochure and don´t have an invitation to come back that´s the last time you´ll see them. But! He called us back. And he was going to come to church this week, but he couldn´t. But! We had our first lesson with him this week and it was great!! We left him with a Livre, (Livre de Mormon- Book of Mormon) and we´re going back to teach him next week, and hopefully he´ll be at church this week! Miracle number two. So Wednesday night, we had a bit of time before our soiree (evening appointment, probably with dinner) with our member family, so we were gonna go visit this family that we met while port a port ing. But I had to turn around to park close to their house. And, long story short, I ended up having to drive up this hill that I wouldn´t have normally because I can´t stop on hills. So we were at the top of the hill turning around, when this older Futunian mami was closing her gate. Soeur Kailiponi got out of the car to do backup and they started talking. And she invited us in. We had an AMAZING lesson with her. She felt the Spirit. And we´re going back tomorrow. Some would call this a coincidence. But I know better than to think that.
Miracle number three. Katherine!! So we got her name from a coordinee referral that the Elders in the city gave us. She´s half Wallisian and half French. And she speaks English cause she went to college in Brisbane. So we actually taught her in English. Which, not gonna lie, threw me a little. Because that was actually the first lesson ever that I´ve taught in English. Cause from day one in the MTC all we ever did was teach in French. But oh how I love this lady! She´s 24. And she´s great!! She met the Soeur missionaries actually, when she was in South Korea this summer for something. And she found the missionaries here in Noumea just recently! But yah, she has a strong testimony already. She knows that a lot of gospel principles are true. But she has some doubts. So we´re gonna teach her the lessons again and see if we can find her doubts. Oh she´s great! I love her.
L'évangile est vrai!! The gospel/church is true!
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