08/31/2014

It’s been raining a ton lately, so I've been a little sick
because we've been out in the rain. I've got some good news though,
our mission president chose the 4 best missionaries in the mission to
go on a special assignment. He named the project, commandos of the
lost islands, and I'm one of them haha. I'm going to be finishing my
mission on a tiny little island called taenga. It’s back in the
tuamotus (the islands that I served in when I was in Hao.)Anyway,
this little island hasn't received missionaries before, there are only
80 people on the stinkn thing! So I really will be out of contact for
the last 3 months of my mission! I leave the 11th of September,
president said that I was the only missionary that could be sent to
this island because I have the qualities that he needed for the job.
I'm an assistant now, which is also really cool. I'm extremely anxious
to get out there and meet my new family. I'm pretty sure that I will
know everyone dang well before I leave. Giving that there are only 80
people that live out there! So, I haven't gotten the package yet, but
I pray I will get it before I leave. I have to take a plane and a boat
ride to get to Taenga, so if I don't get it before I leave, it will
have to wait until the end of my mission. This is just to let you all
know that its normal that you won't be getting emails from me these
next few months, sorry, but it’s what the lord needs of me. I love my
mission, I'm glad I will be finishing out in islands. It’s definitely
more my style. I will try to email one last time before I go, bit of I
don't... See you all in 3 months!

Elder fyffe

08/25/2014 

                So here I am at a member’s house doing my mail on their phone... So I won't be able to get you guy’s pictures again this week. My goal is to talk to the bishop this next week to see if I can use the computer at the church or something. P-days have been great lately, because the weather has been great, but today it’s raining... So we will probably be staying at the house, or at a member’s house talking it up in French or Tahitian haha. I love my mission, 3 months left is actually very painful to say. I look at the life you guys are living and it freaks me out. So many decisions to make every day. Where me, while I've been on my mission have only been deciding what lesson to teach our investigators. So, I'm preparing to have my head explode. I have no idea what I am going to do after my mission, I had it all planned out when Amanda was in my life, but now that she's gone, I feel like I've got nothing. It’s sad but true... My future was planned around that chick ha.

                My companion keeps telling me that I'm lonely because members and investigators keep offering me their daughters to marry and I actually think about taking them up on the offer! I just need to survive these next three months without making any promises and I'm good to go! I'm focused on my mission, it’s just that now is the time to start preparing mentally for the life after the mission so I'm not in too much culture shock. I'm officially in the oldest group in the mission; the next ones to go home, I should even be getting my plane ticket in the next few weeks. But! My mission has never been better, I have a great companion, and we get along great. My ward just keeps getting better and better as they get more used to me and I to them.

                The investigators we have are progressing and it makes the work so much more enjoyable. Lessons have been really enjoyable lately, my companion tells me all the time that when I talk about my family, especially my sister, he sits back and lets me talk because they are the most powerful moments. I've truly gained a testimony and a love for my family. The spirit testifies every time and the investigators understand better when I tell them how much I truly love them. Honestly, when I think of how Christ would teach, I believe that he never stopped telling or showing how much his brothers and sister meant to him. That truly is the example that I've been following, it’s the path I've been trying to follow. It’s never done me wrong. The savior trusted me with the souls of his children, the best way to make him proud or please him, is to treat them how he would have them be treated; with love. I've gained a testimony about a lot of things, but like the brother of Jared, my testimony of charity is starting to become more knowledge without doubt. I love this work so much, because I love the people, and especially my savior. I'm excited to see you all in 3 months, the time will go by way too fast, pray that time may go slower for me, and I need it! Stay safe this week! I love you all! 

Elder Fyffe

 

08/20/2014

This week has been full of some great experiences. I'm really enjoying the work with my new companion; it seems that for once I may have found a companion who loves these people as much as me. It helps the work move along much more smoothly when we are on the same boat. There are some missionaries who teach lessons, and not people because it’s a little harder for them to connect with the investigators. Having a baptism is much more rewarding when you know the person that is being baptized and have seen all that they had to change and go through in order to get a remission of their sins. It truly is incredible!

Like the baptism that we had this weekend for our sister Johanna, she was disowned by her family because she wanted to follow the example of her Savior. Times like these are pretty difficult because Its hard for me to see my investigators be treated like that by their own families just because of religion. Strange how something that is made specifically to bring families together can sometimes be the reason that families get torn apart. We promised her though that the Lord has and will continue to work on the hearts of her parents. It seems that no matter what the problems are that we face here on earth, the solution is always the same- Following the savior will never lead us to darkness!

I love this work too much. I'm sorry that this week was short, and I'm still trying to find a way to send pictures! It just takes so stinkn long.

I love you all! Have a great week!

Elder Fyffe

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

 

08/06/2014

               

                Sorry I wasn't able to write on Monday, I got a new companion, his name is Elder Goes,  He's been on his mission for a little over a year and he may be my last companion, I'm starting to really love this sector, it's already hard accepting the fact that it may be the last. The group of missionaries who came to Tahiti right before me left today... I'M NEXT. Do I have to come home? It feels like I'm just starting to get the hang of things too, God has helped me so much these past few weeks, I've learned a lot about patience. It's been a constant theme of my mission. I hope that I'm at the least becoming more patient.

                We've started a book of Mormon class, we read the book of Mormon every day with the members at the church, it’s been really successful and something I look forward to everyday. I read the chapters assigned for the night during my personal study, so by the end of the class, I would have finished the book twice instead of just once. Making it the 4th time I've finished the book of Mormon on my mission (in my life too) it has blessed me so much, I've gained a testimony for myself, and it's exactly how they said it would be in the introduction. Because I have gained this testimony, I know that Joseph is a prophet of God, that he restored the one and true church and that it really is through this gospel that I will see my family again after this life.

                All of that = smiley face. I'm happy. But not yet satisfied, the day I will be satisfied with all the work I've done is when I'm in the temple with my WHOLE family receiving and accomplishing eternal blessings. Life is so much better, so much more exciting, has more purpose and is way more rewarding with the gospel. I remember in scouting, I had a motivation of just getting my eagle to say I finished. With the gospel, everything I work for is for the wellbeing of my posterity for the eternities. So much more worth it, I won't just have a badge on my chest and piece of paper saying I made it, but I will have kingdoms and glories and eternal joy. I can't wait for that. It's going to be hard, but I've got a much better hold on things than I did almost two years ago.

I love you all so much, I'm sorry but I can't send pictures this week, I'm on a tablet. Be safe this week!

Elder Fyffe

07/292013

            Raja's child is super cute; I can’t wait to meet him. Also trace is looking super old; tell him to quit growing up so fast. This week has been great; I baptized a family last night, and stayed in my old sector last night because they asked that I be the one to baptize them! It was an awesome baptismal service. I go back to Mataiea this evening

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            There were some transfers here this past week, I’m staying in my sector and my companion is going somewhere else...obviously. It’s going to be great with my next companion, I’m not worried at all, I’ve only heard good things about him. Life is beautiful here in Tahiti, in every sense of the word. I’ve been blessed to serve here. I don’t know what I did to deserve all of this, but I must have washed a few more dishes than everybody else in the pre-earth life haha.

             August then September, 21 years old, then October and I’m home in November. I don’t want to leave yet! Can’t you guys wait another year or something? My mission president has me on a ''secret mission'' for the moment, its actually pretty rewarding; I can’t really say what it is, but ask me after my mission and I will tell you all. I don’t have much time since the others have things planned, so this will have to do for this week’s letter. No pictures this week sorry! I love you all!

Elder Fyffe

07/21/2014

                This week has been pretty crazy; of course a lot of miracles are happening. It’s becoming very normal. This weekend I will be going to my last sector to baptize two of my favorite people on earth. A little girl named Ravahere and then my bro Ate, Our new mission president is really cool about being in the lives of our investigators, so he is letting me go to both of these baptisms! Also, in the pictures that I am sending this week, I assisted a baptism of an investigator that I taught when I was in Hao, but I was transferred right before her baptism. I had lost contact with her until our reunion last week when the sister missionaries that teach her announced her baptism. I was so happy that I had found her again, and to know that she continued the lessons with the missionaries. I surprised her at her baptism and she almost jumped on me haha. I love that lady, her name is Olga by the way, and it’s awesome. The second best part of the baptism was seeing some of the old investigators that I taught and baptized out there. The Lord blessed me to be able to see them again before I leave. I was probably the happiest Elder in Tahiti that Night.

            This week during our lessons, the spirit has been super strong and has been leading us like crazy; helping us say the things that need to be said at just the right moment. We had two lessons with two couples and we had already planned and prepared the lessons for the two, but when we started the lessons, the spirit told me to teach something completely different. So we did, and at the end, we ended up saying all the things that the investigators needed to hear. We should be seeing 1 marriage and 4 baptisms out of it in the next few weeks! Working with the spirit is super helpful. We also went to a member’s house this week to have a huge Tahitian feast. "Maa Tahiti" I literally became sick because I ate too much. I felt like I couldn’t move for about 2 days... The best part was, that night after we had eaten, we taught a lesson on the word of wisdom. I felt a little guilty haha.

            Life is as good as ever; my mission is slowly but speedily coming to an end. I’m happy for constant reminders from the Lord, telling me that he is here. I love my life, I love my mission. Things are pretty nice here in Tahiti ha. I love you all, have a great week!

Elder Fyffe