Tomorrow will mark my one year anniversary for my arrival here in French Polynesia. What happened!? That went by quickly. For the moment I am still in the same apartment as I was when I started my mission but we recently found out that we need to be on the look for a new apartment because we are moving out soon. It turns out that the contract is expired or something and we need to move out. But we don't have to worry too much about it, we're just supposed to ask around the members to see if they know of any place that we can stay at a good price.
And for the birthdays, I think it was Monday night during planning that I realized that the 8th was my Mom's birthday and that the 12th was my Dad's birthday, so Mom and Dad, sorry!! Happy late birthday!
As for the week let's start with Monday. Right after having done our emails we went and played rugby touch with the zone of Faaa and my zone. It was a lot of fun. Running on the hot astro-turf field and having the sun reflecting off the ocean wasn't too enjoyable, but playing a good game of rugby was good. And then that night we didn't have a family night and so we stayed at the house and made corned beef with spaghetti noodles. Corned beef is something that we eat a lot out here, here it's called punu puaa'toro which means canned pig cow(beef). It's pretty good if you know how to cook it and what to eat it with.
As for the rest of the week we had quite a few lessons cancelled. But the lessons that we did have were pretty good lessons. We had our normal lessons with an ex-drug dealer named Vatea, he's an inactive member, and his girlfriend. And those lessons went well. We talked about reading the scriptures in one lesson. My companion used this example that you tell everyone to write a little note to some one that you miss or haven't seen in a long time. Then my companion took those notes and started talked about the how the scriptures are like messages that the Lord is sending to us. My companion kept talking and proceeded to rip the notes in half explaining that sometimes we misuse the scriptures, he then rips them again, we ignore the scriptures, and he continues. It was a powerful lesson about the scriptures and that we need to read them and take care of them.
Wednesday night we were able to go to the temple with the stake and invite our investigators to do a temple tour and to visit the new welcome center (that the mission nurse's husband had a big role in putting it together) and in the end they would be able to eat, which is a big Tahitian thing. We as missionaries didn't do too much, and while I was talking to a brother in the ward I pulled out some photos that Mom had sent me. As we go through the photos some of the other missionaries start looking at them as well. Well, funny story, one of the sister missionaries has a brother who wrestled for Alta. Turns out her brother is Carson Kuhn, and I'm pretty sure that I wrestled him while I was in high school. It was such a crazy connection made a long long way from Utah.
That's pretty much it family. I hope you all know that this church is true. That Jesus Christ lives and loves us. And that the Book of Mormon is true. I love you all!
Have a good week,
Elder Squires
Subject: Double Oops! :(
As has been recently brought to my attention, Mom's birthday is the 12th, and Dad's is the 8th. Sorry!!
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