From Tipaerui to You!

Last week I wrote to my family about a mission couple who was lost at sea for two days asking them to pray for that couple. Well, I found out the story. The couple was out in the islands going by boat from a baptism to return home. It was a private boat and the man who owned the boat was actually the man who just performed the baptism. They got caught in a storm and were lost at sea for 2 days. Thankfully they had just gone to the store and had food on the boat. They were found last Monday. An interesting story is that Saturday night we got a call from the elders telling us about the situation and to pray for this couple. The three other sisters and I who live in the house all knelt down and prayed for this couple to be found. It was powerful. It was raining outside, and I could only imagine what it must have been like out at sea. Of course, God heard our prayer and many other's prayers and the boat lost at sea was found. The couple and boat driver are fine and I guess are continuing their mission. There is a miracle story for you!

  Other good new is, I think it was Thursday, we heard there was going to be a hurricane to hit Tahiti. We didn't get a call from the elders, so we just kept working. Sure enough, it was sunny all day. But even better news is that it has been raining off and on all week, because of the tropical storms and what not, but I don't think I even got soaked once this week! It would rain super hard when we were  in lessons, but when we had to get on our bikes it wouldn't be raining. We did get soaked Tuesday. We were probably out on our bikes for 4 mins. but that will do it. We had our interviews with President Bize and were in a hurry to get there and didn't have time to change. We totally ended up there soaked. But the rest of the week it was great. The timing to get places was just perfect for the rain. 

   Last Monday we went to Mac Do's (that is what they call MacDonald's here). I couldn't bring myself to eat a hamburger, but I got a small smoothie and small fry. It cost $7 for just that. MacDonald's is the only American fast food they have here. It felt soooo sooo soooo sooooooooo good to drink a smoothie. I hadn't had one since probably August. 

  Ok, I know everyone wants to hear about the people here. We really have a good sector here. We get to work with a lot of people. Here are a couple of highlights from the week. 

  We have been sharing messages on the side of the road with a lady named Noeline V. Her concubine's (they call boyfriends concubines!) brother just died and she has a  younger daughter. We told her about God and she is a daughter of Heavenly Father. I could see on her face that this was something new for her, but she felt the truthfulness of it. We asked her to pray and ask it she really was a daughter of God. Then she told us she had never prayed before in her life, so we taught her how to pray. We haven't followed up yet, but we will see her this week. I am excited for her. 

  We had lessons with Valentina (the orphaned 17-year-old) this week too. She is really smart and pretty much knows all the things we teach her. This week we put emphasis on the Book of Mormon. We went to read it with her. One of the visits, I bore testimony of it. I said, "this book was written for us by prophets who saw our day, they gave their lives for this book." I could tell words were being put into my mouth as I said this. I just kept opening my mouth and looked at Valentina with all the care and love I could as I testified. I saw her eyes start to water and lip start to quiver. She felt the spirit or the love of God. Best feeling in the world right there. It was such an interesting way to testify of the Book of Mormon, but I guess that is what she needed and Heavenly Father sure helped me to say it. After that visit she read 13 chapters in one night and the verse that really stuck out to her was I think 1 Ne 9:5, which is when Nephi is talking about how, "I don't know exactly the reason why I am writing these things, but I know it is a wise purpose and God knows that purpose." That was just a testimony builder to me that, Heavenly Father knew what I needed to bear testimony of. 

   My trainer told me this week, "I can tell when you are being inspired because your french gets a lot better." I have to agree with her. When there is a need for my French to help someone, it gets a lot better. That is what we call the gift of tongues. 

   Lelani asked Sr. Richards and I to pick a man to baptize her for her baptism. It is a huge honor for us because Lelani just wants her baptism to be perfect. The baptism will be on her birthday, which is also her son's birthday if things go as planned. It is 15 Feb. which is a Sunday. Church starts at 7:30 am, but she wants to be able to go to sacrament meeting after her baptism, so she wants to get baptized at 6 am. I am down for that. Whatever floats her boat. It is like her birthday, baptism and son's birthday so we can do that. We just have to ask our zone leaders for the ok. She also gave us a list of qualities the man who baptizes her must have like innovative, respectful, noble that was just a few. There was like 9 qualities he needs to have. Sr. Richards and I just laugh, because it is all on us to find this perfect priesthood holder. I feel like we are picking out a husband for her or something, good thing single wasn't a qualification. haha. 

    Today the city had a celebration for some reason. I thought it was the mayor's birthday, but now  I really don't know. It was really cool and authentic. They had the Tahitian dancers and everyone was in their local dresses and there  were all the island flowers and stuff. It was really cool. I totally felt like a tourist, though. It was a weird feeling. 

    Well, I don't know what else to say. I am going to try to send some pictures home. I hope everyone is loving their life. I found this quote this week and love it a lot so I will write it. "So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment." - President Thomas S Monson. I love that. That is life for you.  

~Sœur Campbell

    Me today after the celebration. My hair is down that was weird and hot

                    Seventeen dollars for those little nail polishes hoollyyy coowzzz

 We bought these at the little Costco it was great I was happy to get some American food

 At the celebration it was super cool and Tahitian:; every girl here is a Tahitian dancer

             

Tahiti Week 6

Hi guyyysssss!

   So I just want to start out by saying that missions are the bestest hardest thing ever. If you are planning on going, get pumped and ready to work! Also read PMG as much as you can. You will NOT regret it at all and just try. Enjoy seminary and religion classes and learn from them. Learn as much as you can, but more importantly, live what you learn. Pray and ask if things are true. Gain a testimony yourself, because that is exactly what you will be asking other people to do. It only makes sense to do it yourself too! Also if you plan on being an obedient missionary, start by being obedient now. Use the strength of the youth and follow it. Building that habit of obedience will make things much much much easier. kk Good luck!!

    So I sit here thinking of this week and am like wow, so much happened, but I don't really know what to write. 

  Lets start with a funny story. Maybe Tuesday or Wednesday we were in a lesson with Elvina. Elvina has had the lessons for quite some time and she has a daughter who is a member. We are currently trying to work with her and her boyfriend (here we call them concubines, and it isn't rude, like that is what they call them too) to have a marriage date as a step to have an eternal family. I was trying to do a "follow-up" with the status of the marriage date and also how was her Book of Mormon reading, but we had to resolve some concerns first. We have been trying to emphasize to reach a big goal you have to make little goals and complete them to get there. I had the idea in the lesson to find the "by small and simple means" scripture in the BoM. I pulled out my nifty little 3x4in English BoM my mom gave me years ago that I keep in my backpack. I looked in the index to find the reference and found it as Alma 37:41. I just saw like the one line in the back of the book and that was what I wanted. Then we were all reading the verse and I saw the word "paressuex" or something like that, which is lazy in French. Then I looked up the whole verse in English and sure enough, it talks about by small and simple means and then how laziness prevents the small things from happening. I felt so bad, but everyone thought it was FUNNY. Oh it was a good laugh, but totally called out the amis. Good thing she is like suppppeerr down to earth and thought it was funny too. I tried to explain it was a sign. Then we tried to apply the scripture, which was perfectly applicable. That was probably like the best laugh I have had all week. 

  I definitely got food poisoning this week. A member bought us dinner and dropped it off and it was chicken from the little market. They will cook little meals and put them in plastic trays and sell them here, but they don't get refrigerated and don't stay warm. So I was really hungry and warmed up the food and ate the chicken and I am pretty sure that is what made me sick. I didn't eat much Friday and Saturday because you can't. Now I am okay, but don't really want to eat the chicken here anymore, but that is just TOOO bad because chicken is a staple. We had it at our dinner yesterday and I was fine, so there is hope!

  We rode our bikes a lot more this week, which I love because it means we get places faster and do more in one day. 

  We also received a little miracle with Leila (our ward mission leader's wife, who has been taking the lessons with the missionaries on and off for 14 years, but just recently started reading the LDM in Oct and she is already in Alma), we have been working with her to get an answer if the church is true. She has been praying. She asked us the question, "What if I am not getting an answer because I am not worthy." I was like no that is not the concern at all, because she is worthy of an answer, all of God's children are if they want it. I felt inspired to answer her question with a question of, "maybe you should ask this question to yourself, 'If I were to get an answer, would I be willing to act upon that answer?'" I think she really thought about that, because she really wants an answer. It was a miracle I was able to ask that and she understands. I tried like re-saying it to my companion after the lesson in French and she just didn't understand. It is crazy how God works like that. He will help me to accomplish His will, no exceptions, no obstacles. I know He will make it happen. As soon as we leave lessons and things like that it is soo much harder for me to understand French and stuff like that. 

  I don't know what else to write. I really like this area. It is considered like "in the city." But lets just make this clear: American city life is not Tahiti city life. Things are really relaxed for city life and there aren't any big skyscrapers. There are some factories in our area. We always see the cruise ships in their port. The cruise ships port really close to here. People don't have addresses here. There is one main road and they live in little streets off of it called "quartiers" which is a neighborhood in English, but they are more like little "one way" dirt roads with houses on the side of them.

  We did our sondage (survey) on Saturday and it was pouring rain. Soeur Richards and I got soaked. I was praying we could talk to at least 1 person, because usually when it rains people sleep. There was a lady who accepted us in our soaking clothes and it was just so nice to talk with someone. Then it was all worth it. I didn't really care if we got wet. 

  We read 3 Nephi 11 with Toimato and Kulani (they have a little baby and have a baptismal date for 14 Feb). As we read I really noticed that the Nephites didn't recognize the Savior at first either. 3 Nephi 11:8 says, "they thought they had seen an angel." It seems that all the people who were supposed to recognize Jesus Christ as their Savior didn't even in the Bible. The whole 400 or something pages before that event in the Book of Mormon are prophesies of that one event, yet they didn't recognize him. Ohhh so interesting. 

      I just saw my first poisonous centipede right here in the clerk's office. Ughhh. I didn't want to try to kill it because I knew the centipedes in GA are sooo HARD to kill and I didn't want to upset it. Sr. Taputea (who lives in the house with me) just killed it! Thank goodness. It was easier to kill than I thought! Now I can type in peace. 

     I think today we will go to Polynesian Trading Center and get some American cereal. I am soooo excited to get some fooooooddd! We ran out again of food this week. Good thing we got more money in our accounts!!! 

   Ok, that is all for now! Have a great week. Do your best! Remember who you are and that you can become. 

Love,

Soeur Campbell

The Worst Best Week Yet!

Last Monday was awesome. Sr. Richards and I were walking down to the world's only Black Pearl Musee located right in our sector when a lady who was just sitting on a bench stopped us. She had hurt her foot and had walked down from her neighborhood and was exhausted. She waved us over after we told her a casual "bonjour" and we ended up talking. We talked to her about her family, hurt foot, and coming unto Christ. It was awesome. We shared a verse in the Book of Mormon, Moroni 10:32, which talks about being perfected in Christ and ended up giving her the book. That was a little miracle of itself because usually on p-days I empty out my backpack of most the books I carry around, but I thought of how Pres. Harding (p-hardy) has the missionaries in ATL carry a blue Book of Mormon with them everywhere. I thought of that and decided to keep that book in my backpack on p-day. Of course, that good thought came from what we call the Holy Ghost. Anyways, we gave her that book and shared how it has helped us come unto Christ and feel peace in our lives. She was touched and asked us to sign it for her and everything. It was a good start to the week. The only thing I wanted to just top it off would be a letter. Sure enough, at the very end of the day, the elders came bearing glad tidings of good joy. MY FIRST LETTER!!!!! and it was from my mom and I was very very happy. After a month journey, it finally made it safe and sound. 

 So the rest of the week carried on. It was a little, not the best. We had two days in a row where 3 lessons canceled. Then we had a bunch of concerns come up with investigators we were already working with and things were getting slloooowwww. Friday came around and we had our zone meeting and our 3 baptismal dates had all fell through and I did not want to be in that meeting and report that. When we talked about the progression of our area I didn't even want to look up. I was praying for strength to make it through the day. Right after that meeting I had my first split. I stayed in my area and we worked all day. This is the part where things get good. We took the bikes out and went to our lessons and had some lessons cancel, but that was okay because I just learned that when a lesson cancels it means God wants you to be somewhere else at that moment. We ended up getting to see a lady we have been trying to see since the week I got here and would literally go over there 2-3 times a week and she was never there. Then we had a lesson and the investigator didn't have his Book of Mormon to do his reading we assigned him, but he completed it by calling his grandma and reading with her. We also committed him to be baptized. 

  After that, we went to Valentina's house whose parent's had died when she was young and she told us she wanted to be baptized because her parents were both members of the church. She had already taken some of the lessons but didn't have a Book of Mormon, so I gave her a Book of Mormon and told her about it and the promises and blessings of reading it. I asked her to read 3 Nephi 11 and pray to know it was true. Then I asked her by chance if she had a date she wanted to be baptized on and she was like, "yeah, my mom's birthday" and we were like, "when is that?" and she said "the 26th" and I said "of January?" and she said "yeah" and I looked down at my watch to see what day it was and it was already the 9th. Then we proceeded to tell her if she really wants that she needs to work with us and if she was willing to work with us we could do that. I asked her to read that chapter in the BoM, pray to know if it was true and if baptism was the right thing, and then ask her aunt about the baptism date. Then we set up an appointment for the next day. Sure enough, I go over there with Sr. Richards on Saturday and she prayed about baptism and read the chapter in the Book of Mormon and she said she had a good feeling about it and then right after that  she went to go ask her aunt about the date and she said yes! That was a huge miracle. Things are happening out here. Then we taught her and found out she already knows the Book of Mormon is true. We also got to testify to her about Jesus Christ and how her family can be reunited after this life because of what he did for us. It was the best thing in the world being able to help someone, who needs hope find that hope through Jesus Christ and his gospel. Also, this whole ordeal that went down was just a miracle to me that maybe God was just really pushing me earlier  this week so I would just really enjoy these the good moments and be grateful and recognize the miracles He gives. 

  Saturday we had a lesson that ended up falling through, but we already had the member with us, so we decided to go see Tauhina and Chantal, who are both trying to stop smoking. We are also working with them to come to church. The member with us was the Relief Society president and we didn't even have to say anything to her about what to do. She just was super inviting to Tuahina and Chantal and ready to help them with anything and everything and integrate them into the ward. That was a huge relief to me, to see the support of the ward in that lesson. We talked about fasting and the power of that and Sr. Parker (the RS pres.) was all down for fasting with our investigators. I forgot how much the ward is really behind us. 

   Then later that day (Saturday) we had a lesson with Moia. She is probably about 40 years old and has a boyfriend who comes down on weekends and he joins in the lessons.  We have been working with Moia since we got here, but she wasn't really understanding the lessons and didn't come to church and didn't read and understand the Book of Mormon. The past couple of weeks we have been helping her to read, understand, and apply the BoM. The last week we really focused on church and why it was important to go to church and also asked her to read a chap in the BoM. We found out she doesn't want to go to church because she was afraid of people being two faced and it was looking like she was going to go to church anytime soon. This Saturday, we brought a member with us who is her neighbor, who speaks Tahitian. You have to understand this lesson was in Tahitian, so I really struggled to understand what was going on, but Moia told us she read the chapter we asked her and that is really touched her...a lot. Yay, good new. So then we continued on in the lesson talking about coming unto Christ. I testified how God is a God of justice and mercy and how blessed we are that He is the two. The mercy comes because He loves us, but the justice is where we come in and need to show our love for Him. Then my companion joined in and testified and extended the invitation to come to church saying, "we have already asked you, but we would love to ask you again..." Earlier in the lesson, I couldn't understand the Tahitian, and I started thinking of Moia as a Sunday school teacher and her bf as a Young Men's president and just silently pleaded for God's help to get them to church. Well, to our surprise Moia said yes to go to church and then turned to the member present and asked for a ride to church. That. was. huge! Miracles are happening out here and my prayer was answered. So yesterday she was at church was a member by her side and I asked her how it was and she said she was really touched and that she LOVED it and wants to come back. yes. yes. yesssss!! Then she talked to me in Tahitian and I didn't really understand, so I just smiled and nodded like the penguins in Madagascar when they say, "just smile and wave boys, smile and wave!" haha. I did learn though that she was super excited to come to church and church starts at 7:30 am here and she got up at like 5am or something to make sure she was ready and she was all ready by 6:30 am! Oh is just feels sooo good to see her progress. 

  We also did a mini hike on Saturday to get so a house that was pretty high up the mountain. We climbed over 200 stairs to get there. What is interesting is that when people live that high up, the way they get their stuff up there is the same way we climbed up, which is by those 200 stairs. I just would NOT want to carry a fridge or a washing machine up 200 stairs. This lesson was good too. It was with a couple who already followed the lessons, but took a break because they had a baby, even though they were super close to being baptized. We just walked up there and they told us they had picked another baptism date. We taught them about the importance of coming to church and how it was something for our soul. It was great and a miracle, because all the 3 baptism dates we had lost earlier this week were made up. God really knew what He was doing and now I really trust that He has prepared people. 

   We taught an English class to our Saturday night people at the church. It was fun. I just love teaching English. 

   We also found out we have 2 members in our ward right now in the hospital, so we planned to go visit the Sunday. That was a fun experience. The hospitals here don't look anything like American ones. We just walked right into the room and shared our message. 

  Sunday after we got done at the hospital we didn't have much time before our dinner appointment. Sr. Richards and I had a list of people we needed to see. We had to prioritize, so we decided it would be best to go see Valentina. We just needed to make an appointment with her, but she lives like a super long walk away and we didn't have our bikes, so we started to make that walk. Then by a miracle we just saw her walking down the street and quickly talked with her and made the appt. Now we had time to go see Lelani. That worked out great. We got to Lelani's and found out she was not having a good day. Her ex-husband's family was blaming her child's sickness on her. We were there for her and shared some Bible verses with her Mat. 11:28-30. She really needed to know that right now, that she could find comfort in Christ. After finding that out, it was clear that God wanted us to be there. She had to quickly leave after our little message, but I am glad we could be there to help. 

  I also witnessed another miracle yesterday. Sr. Richards and I were walking to an appointment and there were to people on bikes getting ready to exit the neighborhood and get on to the main road, but cars were coming and the girl's breaks didn't work. She wasn't wearing a helmet and totally t-bumped into a car that was going fast on the main road. Literally, she was untouched. She wasn't wearing a helmet either and she was untouched not even a scratch. It was crazy. We got her bike out of the road, but it was a miracle to me how she was fine, her bike was fine. She fell just perfectly. It was a little shocking to see that happen too. You think we would have called  the ambulance or something, but the driver just had a huge dent in his car and saw the girl was alright, so he just drove off. No ambulances or anything was called. It was nothing like an American crash at all.

    By Sunday we were definitely out of food. No bread. No milk. No cereal. That meant no PB and Js and no cereal and milk... My staples were gone and I ate my last apple for breakfast. It was okay, though, because after our lesson Noeline gave us a huge lunch with poisson creu, and rice, and meat and potatoes. I honestly liked the raw fish the most.  Then we had dinner like 3 hours later. I found out the way you know the raw fish is still good is by the flies. If they are still attracted to it. It is still good. Also for dinner, I ate like barracuda. It was grilled and reminded me of like steak. It wasn't exactly barracuda, but  a local fish that is like 4 feet long and probably like 6 in diameter. It was soo good. I loved it and I guess it has the most of omega 3 in it.  

  Today we did a hike near Papeete. Our car got stuck in mud going up to the trailhead, so we had to go like 9 km to get to the trail head, but we only made it 6 km. I was kind of sad we didn't make it to the spot, but some other missionaries in our zone did. It was really pretty, though! I was trying to encourage people, but it just was NOT working. Oh well, sometimes you just got to work through it and enjoy the trail.    

  I also went to the store and had to buy deodorant. FYI: The girl deodorant here is not the same if you have a mission call to Tahiti and are a girl bring deodorant. I was in the store and only the men's kind was the good stick kind, so I went and put some in my cart and the Tahitian man standing by us, just totally looked at us weird. It was funny. I am going to smell like a man now, but people here really don't care honestly and I'll just sweat it off anyway!!! 

   Alright, my good friends. Have a great week!! and go get em!!

 With soo much love, Soeur Campbell

 

Me with the Livre de Mormon on the trail; my companion called me crazy I told her why and about the GAM rule!!

 This is that new year's thing I was talking about last week. It is lamb and cow; they sell these in the store

                         Us after a morning of work. It was only 7 am

Sometimes the members drop-off our dinners and this was hungry me one night with the awesome way they served it; we always have rice; those are fish patties.

                                     Some people on the stairs we climbed on Saturday

                                                         Car got stuck in the mud

                                Sr Garmin of Bountiful, Utah and I; happy campers are we

                                              Me with my Dora backpack on the trail

                                                 Comp and me walking on the trail

Our view from the hike

Old car on the trail; there are old cars like this everywhere in Tahiti; people don't get rid of them

Tahiti Week 4

Matahiti Api! or in English Happy New Year. We made it to another glorious year. 

  The week started out great. After our preparation day (which ends at 6 pm), Soeur Richards and I set out to go see a couple, Elvina and Eve. We hiked up to get to their house through the jungle of Tahiti to get there.  Both of them had met with the missionaries before and Elvina was currently being taught, but we were excited because we planned to teach the both of them together. We wanted to just start out painting a vision for them, or something to work for, so we taught about eternal families and how that is possible through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We used "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" to help them understand how this was possible. The spirit was so strong in that room. They wanted that eternal family. Then we talked with them how there were steps to make it there. It was easier to explain that there were things necessary to do once they had a "vision" or goal in mind. They even asked us for a specific reading assignment in the Book of Mormon. We met with them again this week and read more about the gospel in 3 Nephi 11. Again the Spirit was so strong. We literally just read the whole chapter and stopped and talked about what we read. So good!

They also gave us stinking hugeeeeee pieces of chocolate cake. It was crazy!! I couldn't even eat the whole thing.

 This week we also welcomed a new sister into the house and she is from Bora Bora. I have yet to learn how to say and spell her name, but she is way stinking fun!! 

  For New Year's, we had to be in before dark, because of all the drunks. We came and watched my training videos, The District, and ate Tahitian jams with crackers. Them we went to bed at 10:30. I could literally hear people up all night though partying. 

  Funny  story yesterday we were walking to church all nice and lovely and then we passed some drunks and we said "hi" and then we walked away and we heard (in broken English) "I loooveee yoouuuu." We just ignored that and kept walking, but all I could think was, "woww this is real life, drunk people are kind of funny." 

  I don't know what else to say. We had a lot of good lessons this week. My bike is getting fixed because it was in the garage and our garage is small and when the car was being parked it got hit. 

 I think one of the members here needs a banana tree cut down and I told them we could help with that and they wanted to get the elders to come and do it. I thought of how many times we have cut down trees in Georgia for service projects and told them we would be more than happy to help. I was grateful for all them tree cutting experience my dad had been giving throughout my whole life. I am so glad for all my upbringing and all the people in my life who have helped shaped me to be here, or even just set a quiet example. I am grateful for all the ward members in Fayetteville who read Preach My Gospel even if it has nothing to do with your calling. We challenged our ward mission leader here to read Preach My Gospel so we could be on the same page and my companion announced that in our district meeting and all the missionaries were surprised by it. I was like, "WHATT?!! that is normal!" I remember for a mutual activity in YW when Sis. Okonkwo was YW president and she made sure every YW had a Preach My Gospel. At the time it was just like yeah that is good, but now it is really like wow that was inspired. Preach My Gospel is a good tool.

  I also have been using Ashlyn Weisler's story when she had her sickness with her lung and how the ward fasted for her as an example when we teach about fasting. 

  Miracles are happening out here. We have three investigators right now working on following the Word of Wisdom as a step of preparation for baptism. They are trying so hard each day to gradually stop smoking. It is amazing to see how their lives are changing and they recognize it.

  New Year's Day we were out and about and saw a family roasting a lamb and a calf over a bonfire outside of their home. It was a pretty cool site and not like anything you would see in America.   Yesterday we were with Noeline, one of the investigators we work with, and we shared with her a nice little lesson on her patio. Afterward though she fed us a whole meal. It was the kindest thing ever. She gave us her best of the best and had a swollen foot. We had rice, lentils, bread, fries, and lamb. I can't imagine how much time it took her to do all of that.  (note: cooking food in Tahiti is harder than in America because it isn't America) She could barely walk. It really touched me how much she did for us because she loves us.

  Then for dinner, we went to a couple in our ward who is from New Zealand and we spoke English the whole meal. It was a great thing because I could actually speak. I did their dishes and it was like a vacation because they had a dishwasher. They also gave us New Zealand chocolate with coconut in it. It seriously like the best chocolate ever. Again people are so nice to us, it is crazy. 

  I found out why our chapel is the only one without AC. Our electricity bill is super cheap because of that (only $200). The other chapel around here has AC, but they have electric bills of like $5000 a month. I thought that was interesting. 

   Other good things about Tahiti that I want to mention: I found a new favorite thing... DUPLOs. It is like a cross between a Ferro Rocher and a kinder beuno. It is good. Also, they have banana vanilla juice here from the islands. That is stinking good! It is one of the flavors from Rotui.

   Now to answer a couple of questions I was asked. How is where I live?? Honestly, we have the most American house in the mission and it is a house that you would like to find in America, but nothing super fancy. Not many people live like us missionaries do. For example, many people have their washers outside, and also like their kitchens outside. Have people had contact with the church before? Here on Tahiti pretty much yes. There are 7 stakes here for about 250000 people. Many people have like Mormon friends and have seen church buildings and what not, but don't really understand doctrine. That is where we come in to teach. In our little 1 km radius sector we have a LDS church, a catholic church, and 7th Day Adventist church, and I think a protestant church. 

    Have a great week, and remember who you are and what you stand for!! 

love,

Tuahine Campbell