Hello everyone, today I would like to talk a little bit more about perhaps one of the most intersting people I've ever met. His name is Louis, I mentioned him in my last letter. Louis is from Futuna (if not Futuna, Wallis, pretty sure it's Futuna). Louis smokes a lot, has a few tattoos, 3 pit bulls (8 pit bull puppies), and a pig named Beyonce. Yes, Beyonce. Beyonce doesn't like me, I don't know why, but that's ok. Louis also went to prison for a brief time, but found the Bible there and has been Christian and awesome ever since. He reads the Bible and/or Book of Mormon every day and listens to Christian rock. He also likes RC cars. Like I said before, he was taught by the missionaries a few years ago, and has us over now about once a week for breakfast (note on a French tradtition, breakfast here is usually coffee, Milo for us which is a sort of chocolate drink, along with French bread or pastries, and most people here dip their bread or pasty in their drink) and then after we eat we have a lesson. Our last lesson was really good, we were talking, and I felt prompted to ask "what's stopping you from getting baptized?" To which he responded "marriage." I then asked "what's stopping you from getting married?" To which he didn't really have an answer. We then shared 1 Nephi 3:7 and talked about how through God all things are possible. He seemed really touched by the lesson, and I hope he'll be making some progress soon.
In other news we set a baptismal date with an investigator named Virginie for the 15 of July. I really hope it goes through, since she has a lot of problems, but she wants to be baptized, so that's what matters. There's a French proverb "vouloir c'est pouvoir" pretty much the equivalent of "where there's a will there's a way" but more directly translated would be "to want is to be able to."
Finally, this Sunday I'll be flying out to Vanuatu again for another MLC. It's pretty much the same crew from New Caledonia heading out, only my companion and one of the STL's has changed out of the six of us. I'll let you know how it is next week.
Love you all!
Elder Miner
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| Ducos District with our new mission office sign.
(Sorry, this is honestly the only picture I took this week)
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