01/15/2013
I feel
like this week has gone by faster than last week, the time just keeps flying by
faster here at the MTC. What a huge tender mercy! :) On the other hand I wish I
could stay longer because my Tahitian isn't good enough to go out and start
teaching a native Tahitian. But I know that if I keep trying my hardest up
until the day I leave, that everything will work out just fine, and if
anything, I will know just enough to get by. (This is perfectly fine with me!)
This morning the rest of our zone (all the
original frenchies that arrived here the same time we did) left. :( That means
that we are the only ones left. :( :( This also means that we are next!! Not
much really happened this week, my days seem to blend together quite nicely
now. I wake up; eat, then go to class for three hours, then have personal study
time for an hour. Then I go eat again, come back and do language study, then we
go to the gym where during that time I help Elder Jambor with his language
needs. Then after gym I go to class again and then dinner, then sometimes
service. That usually all ends up to around 10hrs a day or something... so I
just repeated that schedule 6 times this week and that’s practically my week!
Last
night we had a really spiritual experience though. Elder Sinjoux (the mission
president’s son) and Souer U-Fa (Elder Sinjoux's cousin) left this morning. So
around 9 last night I got the district together and we went and sang a few
hymns to them. In Tahitian I might add. They really loved it; the Tahitian
people absolutely love singing! Our instructors tell us that we will usually
start every lesson out in Tahiti with a song. Anyway, last night when we were
singing everyone in their class started to cry. This made a few members of our
district cry, then everyone just kept singing but with sniffles and little
pauses throughout. The spirit was so strong, and it really showed us how deep
the love of music (hymns) is for the Polynesian culture, the Tahitians
especially.
After
the song I had to go grab everyone a tissue because I believe I was the only
one not crying, ha. We all love those two Tahitian missionaries so much, and
were always down trying to talk to them as much as we could. They were
especially fond of me because I was the one who was mostly down there
representing our district. They told me that many people will just think I am a
Tahitian, and that it will make my mission much easier :) They will be such
fantastic missionaries up in Canada, and will change so many lives! Everyone I
talk to who has gone to Tahiti, says they have never met a Tahitian that they
didn't like. I can’t wait to go out and teach the amazing people of Tahiti!
It’s
crazy how fast everyone here at the MTC can become your family. Especially in
your district when you are practically spending 15hrs of the day together. It’s
going to be so hard to say goodbye to them all. It will be a very sad
experience that can’t be avoided. So I better start preparing now! But we are
all realizing, how short our time together really is. We turned our mission
into a clock metaphor and found out that 2hrs have already gone past out of our
24hr mission. I don't know if it’s possible to enjoy my mission any more than I
am right now, but I better find a way, because it’s going by way too fast. I
love the opportunity that I have to give my will to my Heavenly Father for the
next two years. I love the opportunity to serve him, and his other children. I
seriously can’t think of anything better to do with my life right now. School
will have plenty of time to melt my brain after my mission has made me strong
enough to complete it.
I
realize also that it wouldn't matter to me where I would serve a mission. If I
had gone stateside instead of Tahiti, I know it would have been hard at first.
But then the realization of why I am out on a mission would have made itself
know pretty quickly. This mission is about everything BUT me. I was called to
bring others unto Christ. It just so happens that the people that God prepared
for me to meet in the pre-earth life are living in Tahiti. One of the most
common phrases that you hear at the MTC is, "God knows YOU, he sent you to
where you need to go, he knows you by name and has hand-picked you and your
mission." Once you gain a testimony of the FACT that we really are the
children of our Heavenly Father, the beauty of this gospel can be seen
much more clearly. I can’t wait to meet the people that my Heavenly Father has
waiting for me! It’s such an honor to be doing what I am doing right now, and I
know my life will be blessed because I made the decision to come out here.
Missing
the Wii-U by 4 days is way less of a frowny face than I thought it would be; although,
a tiny frown appears every now and then...oh and music...I miss music. But I
know that my family and friends are being blessed and watched over just as much
as I am, so it makes it a lot less difficult to be away from you all. Please
continue to stay alive for the next little while, and thank you all again for
continually keeping in touch with me here!
Ua here
au ia otou roa! Ua ite au e to'u faaor ia ora. Ua ite au e it teie ekalesia, i
te ekalesia mau. Ua na roto o Iosepha Semita, ia faahoi faahou tiamai i teie
evanelia. Ua here au i te Buka a Moromona. Ua here au o Iesu Mesia. Na
roto i te i'oa o Iesu Mesia, Amene.
Well I have to get off now, my laundry is done. I love you
all so much! UA faietoito!!
-Orometua Fyffe
-Orometua Fyffe
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