What happened?? This last week flew by! I am amazed at how quickly the clock ticks when you are busy.
I moved into my Tahitian district on Tuesday night so I have officially had my first transfer in the mission. My new companions are great. Elder Brunson is from Cedar City, Utah and Elder Tago is from Australia, but he is an Islander at heart. They are both really great.
I taught my first lesson in French on Wednesday. That was a huge shock to me. I never realized how little gospel French I knew. I have been studying it a lot more now.
We started Tahitian on Thursday and it is the craziest language ever. The hardest part is that one teacher will tell you one thing and the other will tell you something different and they are both right because Tahitian is a "newly written" language. It was only written 200 years ago and so there aren't really any rules which is a bit strange. But I can now say I love you in three languages. I can bear testimony, and I can pray in all three of them. I feel pretty cool sometimes when I hear a prayer that goes from Tahitian, to French, to English and I understand all of it.
The best thing that happened this week was probably one of the lessons we taught. We were teaching about baptism and how important it was and we started to talk about the priesthood and how it was restored. My companion didn't understand that our investigator was saying that he wanted to think about it before he committed to being baptized. So my companion tried to set a baptismal date and the investigator and I starting laughing really hard. It was the greatest thing ever. I can't wait to do that when I'm teaching a lesson in Tahitian.
I can't even express how great it is to be here at the MTC. It is hard to not be out doing the work but I am so not ready to go to Tahiti so I'm grateful to be here. I couldn't be more happy.
I moved into my Tahitian district on Tuesday night so I have officially had my first transfer in the mission. My new companions are great. Elder Brunson is from Cedar City, Utah and Elder Tago is from Australia, but he is an Islander at heart. They are both really great.
I taught my first lesson in French on Wednesday. That was a huge shock to me. I never realized how little gospel French I knew. I have been studying it a lot more now.
We started Tahitian on Thursday and it is the craziest language ever. The hardest part is that one teacher will tell you one thing and the other will tell you something different and they are both right because Tahitian is a "newly written" language. It was only written 200 years ago and so there aren't really any rules which is a bit strange. But I can now say I love you in three languages. I can bear testimony, and I can pray in all three of them. I feel pretty cool sometimes when I hear a prayer that goes from Tahitian, to French, to English and I understand all of it.
The best thing that happened this week was probably one of the lessons we taught. We were teaching about baptism and how important it was and we started to talk about the priesthood and how it was restored. My companion didn't understand that our investigator was saying that he wanted to think about it before he committed to being baptized. So my companion tried to set a baptismal date and the investigator and I starting laughing really hard. It was the greatest thing ever. I can't wait to do that when I'm teaching a lesson in Tahitian.
I can't even express how great it is to be here at the MTC. It is hard to not be out doing the work but I am so not ready to go to Tahiti so I'm grateful to be here. I couldn't be more happy.
We watched the Joseph Smith movie last night and I felt the Spirit so strongly. I know this is the true church. I know that Christ lives. As we draw closer to Christ we realize how true this Church is.
Ua ite au e o Iesu Mesia to matou faaora. Je sais que Jesus-Christ est notre Redempteur. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior. I love you all so much!
Keep praying and reading your scriptures. Helaman 3:35 (I think) talks about how we need to continue to do the small things that will bring us daily closer to Christ.
Love, Elder Squires
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