Bonjour mes amis et ma famille,
So this week slowed down a bit. We kind of ran out of food and phone credit. We have this running joke that the mission is making budget cuts. The only thing we had in the fridge was something called "poulet citron." It is fried chicken with some citron sauce. When I first got here that was harder for me to eat then the raw fish. I am from Georgia, but I have eaten way more fried chicken here than in my whole life. Since it was the only food we had for 3 days I ate it, hoping maybe it would satisfy my Chick-fil-a craving.
Towards the end of the week things really started to pick up. It is great.
Sunday Toi mato and kulani got called as ward missionaries. They are recent converts and I am so excited that they are official ward missionary now.
Saturday we were with some amis trying to encourage them to go to church. One of them works late Saturday night and then it is hard to get up to go to Sunday morning 7:30 am church. I shared a story of a man in my home ward who would work from 9pm to 6am in the morning, then take a little nap and be at church by 8am to do his calling as a counselor in the bishopric. Because of the sacrifices he made God has given him and his family innumerable blessings. The moral of the story is that if you really want to do something, you will make sacrifices to do it and then, of course, there will be awesome blessings from God.
We were talking to another man about how it is possible to have an eternal family. He told us he couldn't have an eternal family because it was expensive. Sr. Marrett and I were happy to explain to him that it doesn't cost a penny, because of Jesus Christ's sacrifice for us.
Lately, we have been devoting a lot of effort to finding people. President Bize has challenged us to find 15 new people this month. So we were talking to Valentina on the side of the road and across the street, I could see this boy looking at us, so after we finished our conversation we walked over there and talked to him. He comes from a tiny island in the Tuamotus called Pukapuka. The island is supppeerrr tiny, like 130 people tiny. He told us they were all family and all Catholic. He is here for school because most of the little islands don't have high schools, so the kids in high school come here to Tahiti to get their education. We proceeded to talk to him about pray and the restoration. We asked him to pray about the things we shared with him. The next day we went back there and he prayed and told us what happened. He said he felt a feeling he had never felt before. We explained to him that was the Holy Ghost and explained the Book of Mormon and gave him the brochure. Well, sad but true, he leaves Tuesday to go back to Pukapuka, and doesn't know when he will come back to Tahiti. We left him though with the engagement to read the book and pray. He said he would read it in 2 weeks. Who knows what will happen, but at least we did our part. When I have experiences like that I can only but think of all the times in the Bible and Book of Mormon when God talks about even the aisles of the sea He loves and hasn't forgotten. Now that little island of Pukapuka has someone on it who has a Book of Mormon.
The other great finding miracle happened this week at a dinner appointment. We were over at a ward member's house on Friday. It was our first time there and the member's sister, who lives in the house was there too. She isn't a member. At the beginning of the evening, I literally said a prayer asking God to help me talk to her in some way. Over the course of dinner, she shared with me how there was a huge recruit to be a prison guard here and they had a test and a ton of people cheated on it. People want the job because it pays good money. Because people cheated the people who actually worked hard and did well don't have their fair chance for the job opening. So she and her sister, who worked hard for the test are fighting for what is right, but have a lot of opposition. At the end of a dinner, we always share a message. I shared Alma 53;20-21, that talk about the young 2000 warriors who fought for what was right, even though their adversary had at least double a number of warriors. The young 2000 fought the fight and were protected. Not one of them was killed because they had faith. She had never read in the Book of Mormon before but loved how applicable their story was to hers. We set an appointment to come back and give her a Book of Mormon. We went over there yesterday and I was a little nervous because you never know how first appointments will go. She was super ready, though. After we left Friday night she stayed up until 12 midnight talking with her sister about what we talked about. The lesson went well and she told us she wants us to come over and talk about what she reads in the Book of Mormon. She also told us that us meeting her Friday night was not by chance. She has been missing something in her life for a while now and really wants to find it. For me, that was a huge relief and answer to a prayer. I love talking with this lady because her mentality is very work oriented and she is super excited to read and find out what is in the Book of Mormon.
Last week I bought a gospel art book at the distribution center. I am now obsessed with it. Every lesson I use it. I love it so much.
At the end of the week, things got a lot better and we saw miracles. That was so relieving. I even started sleeping better. And today is Sr. Marrett's birthday, so we are going to celebrate big! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Well, thanks for reading and for your prayers. I am praying for you all too. God loves you. Have the best week of your life!
love,
Soeur Campbell
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