Hello friends and family. Things are really coming to an end. Next week will be my last time doing emails as a missionary. So soon we will be saying hello after I say my goodbyes here.
So, for this week in Tubuai we worked a good bit. I say that because normally we have our ward mission leader who drives us around to our lessons and helps us out. This week we were alone. It was nice. But I will not complain about having a member that drives us around.
On Monday we went to the other end of the island and spent most of the day with the sisters learning how to do a plan of salvation presentation that the mission created. It was cool. I really enjoyed teaching it. It's a big banner that has pictures and phrases on it that depict the three questions of the plan of salvation along with the first vision. Our job is to present it in a way that investigators understand and feel the Spirit. I enjoy that it is like a puzzle that we tie together as we continue. Once that was over we had our family night. The family night was organized by the elder's quorum presidency. They set up everything. All we did was show up and teach the lesson which went well. After the lesson we played games and ate. The investigators that were there enjoyed it and we received two new contacts from it. Overall a good night.
Tuesday our working alone began. We left for our first lesson with our shy investigator and....he wasn't there. No! Afterwards we headed for our Tahitian lesson with the grandmother. We talked about the Book of Mormon. We read Alma 40 together and we talked. It was going well until she brought up a remark about the Sabbath day. She is Adventist which means that she is a believer that Saturday is the real Sabbath day. She seemed to pose the question but was unwilling to receive any explanation that we had. It was too bad. But we'll see her again this week. Hopefully that will go well. After that lesson we visited a couple, Nelson and Herenui. We FINALLY were able to do their lesson. That worked out perfectly. We talked about the apostasy and Joseph Smith and committed her to pray about it. She said yes. We'll see what happens. Then we visited Augustin and read 1 Nephi 2 with him. We want to have him and Mata and Nelson have a contest for reading. That night we went to our ward mission leader's to celebrate the birthday of his granddaughter. It was a good time.
Wednesday we did a lesson with Mata. He has been an investigator for a long time but hadn't been taking the lessons consistently until recently. He wants to be baptized but is waiting for the okay for the baptism with his wife. We need to talk to her. We committed Mata to read the Book of Mormon. He said yes. He also said that he would try to finish it before Elder Hill leaves Tubuai. We did our English class. Talked about the body parts.
Thursday we did our service project. We dug a trench for a cemented driveway. My companion's hands got bad blisters and now they are infected. Unfortunate side affect of that kind of work.
Friday we had a sporting activity. We played futbal, soccer, volley ball and we played around on a pull-up bar with some of the investigators. It was a fun activity. That night the branch did another sport activity where we played basketball and volleyball.
Saturday we did another day. Sunday was another day. It was my last Sunday in the branch of Ziona and this upcoming Sunday will be my last here on Tubuai. Normally. I found out today that I leave Tubuai Friday the 15th to go to Tahiti. I had been thinking it was the 17th. That's what I get for guessing.
That was our week. Still working and still pushing the pedals.
Love you all!
Elder Squires
(I forgot my camera cord so I can't send pictures. Sorry!)
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