Back and Better than Ever: Hello

Hello everybody,

This week was good. Monday night we did a multi-family family night at a member's house. The family night had a couple of our investigators and a lot of members. The lesson was the plan of salvation which our Bishop taught. Then for the game it was up to me. I chose a game that I really like. It's a game of rhythm and commandments. We played the game and it went really well. We then sat around and our Bishop got a guitar and a ukulele for my companion and me. I took the guitar. We tried to sing and play a hymn at the same time. It was really hard. I'm not used to sight reading with people singing with me and not to mention that it was a really fast song. So in the end having the guitar didn't do much at all. But it was the first time that I have been able to play the guitar in front of people so that was nice.

Tuesday we started out the day on our bikes. Which is extremely rare. In the last 2 and a half months we've used our bikes maybe five times. But we took them after a good spray of WD-40 to keep them alive. We had a lesson with a university student named Chantal. She is from Moorea but is here for school. We decided to try and fix her baptism. So we started by talking about Mormon 9 where it talks about miracles and how we have to act. We asked her if she believed miracles could happen. She said yes. We engaged her to be baptized and she said yes. Yay!

Wednesday I went with Elder Bagley into his area and we worked out there for the day. That was good. Thursday we had our first lessons on the south end of our area in the quartier Tubuai. Then we had a lesson at the top of our area at a rehabilitation home. We came all the way back down our area for a lesson with Vatea but he wasn't there so then we went and bought some thing to eat while walking all the way back up to the church, which is on the far north end of our area, and at the top. After the lesson with Chantal up at the church, we came back down only to go up another quartier. This was the night where a news report was on TV talking about Sister Taylor and her miracle. And since we had permission to go watch it, we did. First time watching a new's report since I started. It was really cool.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday were all good. We fixed the marriage for Jean-Yves and Lea!!!!! And we also fixed Simone's and Teriivahine's!!! woot woot! All of that thanks to working with our members and our mission leaders. Family and friends, help the missionaries! Without you it just doesn't work as well. You bring something special. When you are a friend for an investigator you will be their personal trainer on their marathon to being a member and staying active.

I love you all.

Have a great week.

Elder Squires

The transfer is this week, we're staying. But this is the last zone photo. And two of the sisters that started with me finish this week. One of them is the sister in the blue.