Well, It's Official - Mar 30, 2015

Hello Family and Friends,

This week we got the transfer calls. I was really hoping to not get a call because that would mean that I would stay here on Tubuai until the end of my mission. I really like it out here and I wouldn't like to go to a new area for only six weeks and then go home. So we waited. Saturday night we heard that the calls for transfers had begun. Here in the mission we get a phone call from the assistants and they tell us where we are going to be transferred and who our next companion will be. It's nothing fancy. So, we waited. It got later and later and we went to bed. I checked the phone one last time before we went to bed, no call. So, we waited. We woke up Sunday morning, no call. That could mean two things, one - no transfer or two - they didn't call us yet. So I texted the assistants to know if I was being transferred or not. And....

I'm staying!!!!!!!!!!! I will finish here on Tubuai. Yay!! And for those who don't know, I go home the 20th of May. I leave Tahiti the 19th and get to SLC at 3 in the afternoon. It's official. The end is here.

There is something called a teaching pool. The old mission nurse's husband talked to me about that. It contains the investigators that you teach. At least from what I understand. Here on Tubuai our teaching pool wasn't very big when I got here. But recently it has solidified even if it is small. It's nice to have a constancy with the people we teach and the weeks that go by. It's been nice.

We have a couple, Michel and Karina. Michel is an excommunicated member and Karina is an investigator. She has wanted to be baptized for a while but she wants her husband to baptize her. So we have been working on that. Turns out that the husband's reintegration as a member will be really quick. Allowing the couple to marry in May and the week after the husband can baptize his wife. That was the great news that we got this week. I'm excited for May!

I love you all, I know this Church is the true Church of Christ. I am glad to be out here serving my mission.

Thanks for everything! Happy Easter!

Love,

Elder Squires