And I thought I only had to learn French - weekly email

So, earlier this week we taught an older inactive member who spoke only Tahitian. I know literally around 5 words in Tahitian, but thank goodness we had a member there who could translate, since Elder Estall doesn't speak super good Tahitian either. But yeah, the two members would have a conversation for a while, then our active member would say "he said this" and we could then respond. Man oh man it was crazy. Guess it's time to work more on my Tahitian. 

So, couple of big events in this past week and half. Firstly, our P-day has now been officially changed to Wednesday, so that's different. Here though, a lot of stuff is often closed on Mondayfor public holidays which makes it really hard for us to get stuff done, so it's probably better, if a little weird. Secondly, we had another baptism! Three actually, but still, baptism! These three kids were so awesome. They're actually the nieces and nephew of the Bishop, and their Grandma lives here in the ward, and they were visiting for the school break. They normally live WAY up North in Poum, where we don't have missionaries, so their parents had us teach and baptize them here during the two weeks they were here. 

The work here is very, very crazy. We have another three people getting baptized in the next three weeks, which will bring our progressing investigator pool down to about 3, so this week we've been working to find some new people to teach, and we've had some success with a few new investiagtors who are all old investigators, but are interested again, and an inactive who just came back to the ward and wants to get back in the church. The members here help us out so much with finding people to teach, so we'll probably be working more with them too. 

Ciao!

Elder Miner

Pday activity today was the Dumbea Gorge hike with the district. Gorgeous!

End of the hike.

This is me on the first day with our car, a 2015 Nissan Juke

Baptism!!! These three are actually the grandkids of a member in the ward here who normally live up in Poum on the extreme northern tip of New Caledonia. They were here during a two week school vacation so we taught them so they could be baptized before they went back since there aren't missionaries up there, and they're all older than 8. Their names are Mathaio, Ylan, and Malaury.