Me: "Man I miss American milk..." Elder Kessler: "Try the Anchor full cream milk, you'll still be disappointed, but you'll be less disappointed."

So, European/New Zealand style milk is not my favorite. It tastes really weird, and it's still strange to me that I can put milk in the cupboard until I open it. I really miss milk in the States. One more thing to add to my list of must-do's once I get back. 

This week has been pretty great, I don't have any more baptisms to report, not for another couple of weeks. A missionary from this ward did come home Saturday though. He served his mission in Tahiti, and we've already talked about working together, and he's given us some good advice. He's really a cool guy. 

Our investigators are still doing well, Xavier is going to ask his mom again about getting baptized soon, and we the missionaries, and him and all his family fasted together on Monday for his Mom's heart to be softened. We're really hoping he doesn't have to wait until next year to get baptized. Plus, his brother Rudy is super close to submitting his missionary papers. It's really cool to see how one family's conversion will bring about others. Xavier's uncle is now taking the missionary lessons in Australia, Jil (the sister baptized last week) was introduced to the church through Rudy, and now Rudy and Jil are preparing for missions where they will help bring many more people unto Christ. 

One more fun little story, for the past couple of weeks we've been doing service once a week at a brother's house. He has a gorgeous little beachside house, and he's started a little manioc garden and he has chickens. I'll try and send some pictures over the next couple of weeks, but it's a lot of fun to get to be a farmer for a little bit every now and then. Plus, we're taking care of the chickens while he and his family are on vacation in Australia. So we get free, farm fresh eggs every day this week. It rocks.

All the members and missionaries here are looking forward to this weeked. Elder Lynn G. Robbins of the 70 and Elder Halleck from the Area Presidency will be visiting, more on that next week. 

Life is great! A lot of missionaries are getting sick because it's getting "cold" here. (You know, 70, not 80), but the work still goes on.

Love you all, see you soon!

Elder Miner

The view outside our house.

We made shashimi. It's straight up raw fish in a sauce made of garlic, oyster sauce, soy sauce, oil, and some other stuff. Not too bad, not my favorite Tahitian dish though. But hey, when a member gives you a giant fish fillet, what are you supposed to do?


Me:  Ummm, cook it?

A lesson inside a house with Yolan, Ylan, Mathaio and Malawry, a small glimpse of what it's like teaching here.