Blessings and Blessings

Iaorana tatou!

Wow, it's a crazy difference going from the cool life of Papeari to the fast life of en ville. This week has been packed full of lessons and giving blessings and inviting people to come unto Christ.

So it's been a week now with my last companion. It's super cool being with Elder Tiatia. For the weekly groceries last week he bought seven big packs of chicken, sixty eggs, and a bunch of cans of tuna. Wow. That's polynesian. We have lots of really potential people we teach here. Lots of couples and families, so it's my goal to unite these families in the Gospel. We have a baptism this week with someone named Mark. He's been taking the lessons for the last four years, and he just decided that the twenty sixth is the day he needs to get baptised, so he's been working on the Word of Wisdom and has finally repented of everything. He's ready to make an important covenant with God. We are probably going to do the baptism on Friday, though, because on saturday Elder Stevenson comes. We'll have a missionary conference with him, and he'll be doing a fireside at Papeari (too bad I got transferred). I'm pretty excited for that conference, I'm sure it will be great.

All right, so I mentioned last week that the Hospital is in our secteur and that we would probably be giving lots of blessings. I didn't think we would be giving just so many! we probably gave about twenty this week. We get multiple calls a day from random people from all of French Polynesia that need blessings because they're sick. We give blessings to all sorts of people, from mildly sick to on the point of passing away. It's really interesting to see how the power of God works in these situations. It really requires faith to perform healing blessings. Also, school starts back up, and everyone is asking us to bless their kids for the new school year. It gets kind of crazy, but it's rewarding, too.

We have an investigator named Ivan* who accepted baptism this week. He has a lot of faith and really wants to follow the example of Jesus Christ. He also wants to get baptised in Huahine, so we'll figure out how to make that work.

Okay, I have to go. I know that God lives and that He loves us. He knows us all personally, and wants us to be happy. He's waiting for us to turn to him, and then he will pour out countless blessings on our heads. Jesus Christ is our Savior. If you think that you can get by without His healing power, you're wrong. I'm so grateful that he loves us enough to have sacrificed his own life for us. The best I can do to thank him for that is to share the joy I have felt with everyone else. Bonne semaine!

Elder Lewis

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