It's been another week just like all the others. Full of adventures and new things. But this one was unlike any other for a couple reasons. Number one. This new week begins the last month of my mission. Number two. We discovered that the air is so thick here that when we pedal down the road the air we are running into feels like a strong wind even though there is no wind at all. Number three. No week is ever the same, ha.
So to start this week off we spent Monday night at our ward mission leader's house and celebrated the birthday of his granddaughter. Nothing too exciting. We ate some good food but I avoided the fafaru. Google it. It can be pretty gross.
Tuesday is our "lesson day." It's the day of the week where we have almost all of our lessons fixed. We go with our ward mission leader and do the lessons. We taught the Tahitian grandmother. We taught about Jesus Christ's earthly ministry and how he established His church on the earth while He was here. It went well. Our ward mission likes to talk to her and since they are both elderly we let them do most of the talking. We also did a lesson with Isaia and his girlfriend. Isaia is the investigator who doesn't really talk. But this lesson he was a little more open. Yay! Also, his name is pronounced ee-tie-yah. There are no s's in Tahitian. So that was a good day with two lessons.
Wednesday we did the round of the island on bikes as our morning workout. It's a 26 km ride and it took us a good hour. The wind was really strong so we weren't able to go too fast. It was still a good ride. We taught our English class which had about seven people. We did a revision on verbs and the present tense. Overall a good day.
Thursday we spent the whole day doing a service project at a member's house. In the morning we moved sand into a little outside eating area. Then in the afternoon we started filling up their driveway with rocks and sand to make their dirt driveway drive-able after the rain.
Friday we ran 5 km. Nice and easy. Monday we did 6 km with shoes and my shoes destroyed my feet. So I stopped wearing them for running. It doesn't hurt barefoot for the first several km. Once you hit 6 or more you start to feel the asphalt grinding into your feet. We headed out to do our district meeting. The training was given by the Elders of Rurutu. A small island just next to us. They talked about giving good commitments. It was a good training.
Saturday I ran 8 km. My companion ran/rode his bike. He's a good sport to run next to me. My feet hurt quite a bit afterwards. We had no lessons and tracting isn't successful here so we spent some time with members and investigators. And the rest of the time we spent reading with maybe a small nap. I'm past the half-way in the Tahitian Book of Mormon. I plan on finishing before I go home.
Sunday was good.
And today was good. My fallen metatarsal arch has made running not possible for today. Maybe we'll do more biking for exercise. But in any case we decided to take a break this week from hard exercise to relax.
That was our week. I love you family and friends.
Faaitoito!
Elder Squires
The part about the family night escaped my mind.
We started a program for family night's done by each auxiliary presidency. It started this Friday with a family night done by the Relief Society. It was simple and went well. We had three investigators come. Two of which we teach and the other one we already know well. Hopefully we'll get some more investigators from this program. We'll see.
Love you all,
Bye
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| The Sister's attacked our door after we missed a lesson and were pretty bummed about it. There are nice Sisters. |
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