08/12/2014
Well here I am sitting at the member’s
house typing my mail with the sound of a washing machine and children screaming
in the background. Oh and a rooster just cooed. Tahiti is just one big farm, it’s
great. This week has gone by super-fast, my new companion is great, his name is
Elder Goes, he’s been on a mission for about 15 months now and it’s just a lot
of phun to serve with him. Yesterday we went to a small island just off the
coast of Tahiti called Haapitii, spent the morning over there; it was a great P-day
activity. That’s also kinda why I wasn’t able to email yesterday, the WIFI over
there isn’t strong at all. I got nice a tan over there, the weather has been
great lately, so we are taking advantage of it the best we can on our P-days.
Other than that, we had a lot of
lessons this week, found a new investigator who we actually just committed to
baptism 10 minutes ago. She is the only member in her family that isn’t a
member yet. I guess she was just waiting for me and my companion to come by and
teach here. Another one of those “right place at the right time” kind of
things. She is a really great person; I love her a lot, and can’t wait for her
to receive these blessings in her life.
Another cool thing that happened
this week was a fast that we did for one of our investigators whose family doesn’t
allow her to talk with us anymore. The fast worked almost instantly as she told
us that her family has calmed down and that her family gave her back her Book
of Mormon after throwing it outside! Crazy story; the adversary is really
working on this girl, which makes me want to help her even more! I love her to
death because she reminds me a lot of Teesha.
That reminds me, I was looking at
some of the pictures that you guys have sent me, and I saw a picture of my family
and it hit me how long I really have been away. Then again, time has been going
by so fast that it really isn’t that painful. Yes there are some moments where
I long to play Skipbo with my Ma, or listen to music with my sis, or go for
drives with my dad. I have a lifetime to enjoy those things, I just need to
keep giving this mission my all, and then all of the family time I will have
after will be that much more enjoyable. I can’t wait!
I completely forgot to tell you all
though, the 10th of October I will be blessing the baby of one of my
investigators that I had when I was in Taharaa, guess what name the mother gave
him? FYFFE, she named the baby after me ha. It was going to be my first name,
but then her son couldn’t pronounce it so they changed it to Fyffe. I can’t wait;
it’s going to be weird blessing a baby that has my last name as his first name.
I love his family so much and I’m proud to know that they love me enough to
want to name one of their kids after me! Oh ya, and he will be born the 9th of September,
(My birthday) weird how things worked out. I keep getting closer and closer
with the people here, because my love for them keeps getting bigger. I dread
the day that I will have to leave them, but I will be coming back here to Tahiti
as soon as I can. That’s my goal.
Freaks me out that Scott will be
getting married soon, didn’t he just get back from his mission? I’ve been
following in his footsteps, which means one day I will get married too! I can’t
wait for that!
I love you all so much, thanks for
all of your prayers! Stay safe this week
Elder Fyffe
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