Hi!

Hi friends and family,

   So last week I said we were super busy. Well, I kind of want to take that back a little because THIS week we were super busy. 

   We had our interviews with President Bize (our mission president). He literally told Sr. Marrett and I to celebrate, because last week we taught a whole bunch. So when the mission president tells us to celebrate, we are obedient and celebrate. Thursday night we had some super good timtam slams. Timtam slams are the best thing in the world. You have a chocolate cookie covered in chocolate and use it to drink milo, which is like hot chocolate. This week we literally had like no time to eat some days. We worked like crazy and taught 35 lessons. It is not all about numbers, but still crazy. That is a busy week. It is a miracle what is happening here in this sector. Things are booming as far as finding people, teaching, and progressing amis. 

   We started teaching this 19-year-old girl a couple weeks ago. We have been going to visit her and when we were up there (because she lives on the mountain), we just talked about what we do as missionaries. We had a member with us and by divine design, the member already knew our ami, Merita. So the member bore her testimony about her conversion and how she prayed to know if the things the missionaries taught were true and then she felt really good after she prayed. Then we asked Merita to do the same after we left. Well, we went back up there and Merita prayed, and got an answer! Now she knows she wants to be baptized and we just need to help her prepare. 

   Awesome things happened this week with Leila. She has been praying to know if her baptism date was the right one, AND she got her answer! Everyone in the ward here is just blown away that she is getting baptized because she has taken missionary lessons on and off for the last 10 years. Seriously, though, watching and seeing her conversion over the past 5 months has been a huge blessing. She had taken all the missionary lessons before but had never read the Book of Mormon. When I got here she had just started reading and was in 2 Nephi. One time I asked her a question about God and prayer and she wasn't sure if there even was a God to answer her prayers. Now she is in Helaman in the Book of Mormon and talks about God answering her prayers without us even bringing it up. The changes she has made are just. WOW! It goes to show if you study the Book of Mormon you can overcome your doubts. 

  We also started teaching a man  named Hiomai. He is 23 years old and is free during the day. He wants to be baptized, and since he is free during the day, we are going to go over there as much as we can to help him progress. Also, we had our first lesson with Mami Louise this week with both Sr. Marrett and I. We tried to give it in Tahitian. It was about the Plan of Salvation. We got to her house and she was reading the gospel principles book and then she practically taught us the lesson. We didn't even have to bring up praying about the things we talked about because she told us she was going to do that the next day. Ohhh the best was when she was telling us that she needed to stop skipping out on church. I was like "yesssss, that would be a good thing." We weren't even planning on talking to her about the church, because for the most part, she is there 90% of the time. 

  We were with another ami and he doesn't see a need to go to church when he can just pray at home. I was trying to explain to him that if he never goes at least once, he will never know if the church is good. So I asked him his favorite food. He told me pork. Then I asked him before he ate pork what was your favorite type of food. He said, "chein." Sr. Marrett and I was like, "what, isn't that illegal??" Then he said it is English, "dog." We just laughed with him. Every time we go over there we just come back saying, "life is cool" and throwing up a hang loose sign. We have yet to see him at church, but we are starting with baby steps.

  Sunday we ate maa Tahiti (Tahitian food). We had fish, raw fish, taro, sweet potato, some kind of banana thing and put it all in warm coconut milk. It was really good. Now it is Monday morning and I am still full from the taro (it is like a starchy potato that is purple or green).

  Also, I saw Sr. Arbuckle today for the first time since the MTC. It was great.

    Ok well, there is some things that happened this week. I fell like Mormon in "The Words of Mormon" when he writes, "not even a hundredth part of the things are written on this record." Ditto that, so much happens every week, where I can't write it all, plus all the backstory and emotions, that will just never happen. So I hope you have a great week and good luck.   

Love, Sœur Campbell