Transfers! Tahitian Cooking and French Polynesian President - January 12, 2015

Here we go again!! Another Transfer!

This time it's not me getting transferred. It's Elder Millerberg. He is finally leaving his first area and heading out for the big world of Tahiti. All in all, I'm not really a fan of six week companionships. It's not the same. Considering I just finished four months with Elder Webber, six weeks goes by like nothing.

The news is that now I will be serving with someone else. His name is Elder Hervaud (pronounced heir-vo) He is from Tahiti. I helped him with his papers. He got his call while I was serving in his ward. He will show up here the 18th. He started his mission this year. I am training him.

This week we worked with a member from Mahu. This member knows everyone. We were very blessed to be able to work with him this week. We found two new investigators and had someone to drive us around. So nice. We even had help from members in the other branch. It was a good week.

And since we spent so much time with this member, we found out that his family was making the food for a big feast for the president of French Polynesia. We decided to help him  out.

Saturday morning we woke up and headed out to his house. The first thing we did was drive up to his farm and cut down some banana trees, picked some pineapple and some tapioca(?). It started to rain pretty hard when we got back so we took a little break. After a minute we decided to do the next thing. To kill the pig. It's very traditional. So, I witnessed my first pig being killed. I left them degut the pig while I took the skins off coconuts. My hands still hurt from that. Overall it was fun. We had a good time doing authentic Tahitian cooking. The pig eventually got put into a hole in the ground with hot rocks. And apparently the president liked it.

And today we had a lunch with the president. He invited the entire island. They ran out of food. Ha. They killed four cows and made a bunch of other foods and it ran out. Oh well. It was still cool to see him.

This is my last week with Elder Millerberg. My new companion arrives Sunday and we'll head off. It'll be great. I love you all! Have a great week.

Elder Squires

That's the president, in the salmon colored blanket thing with a staff and wearing a white hat.

He stole my camera last night....those are the bananas we had ripening in our house. It took two weeks to get some ripe ones. And now they are almost all yellow.

That's the member and my companion heating up the rocks.