Iorana les miracles! - The Weekly Email

Iorana tout le monde! I've decided to toss in a little Tahitian today for a couple of reasons, first there's a TON of Tahitian members in the church here, Tahitians are actually the ones who first brought the church to New Caledonia, and second, we had a big Heiva activity this weekend. A Heiva is a tradtional Tahitian festival that is a week long in Tahiti and includes traditional food, games, va'a (traditional canoeing), and most of all, traditional dances. Our activity wasn't quite on that scale, but it was still a huge success, the dances especially were all amazing, if I could send videos I would, but it still wouldn't do it any justice. We also had a ton of non-members and inactive members who danced or helped play instruments and who attended and watched as they were invited by members. One companionship even walked away with a couple new investigators. Just shows how much more effective missionary work can be when coupled with the efforts of the members in a cool way. 

The other thing I want to mention is that July is set to be another huge month of miracles, and boy has it already begun. Firstly, Louis is on track to be baptized, we're hoping by the end of July. He's already begun working on his marriage papers, and he wants us to start coming over to teach him twice a week now. We also had a miraculous experience on Sunday. Sunday morning we were calling all of our investigators to see if they needed a ride to come to church or anything, and then we got a call from a new investigator, asking if we could teach her later that day at the chapel. Of course we said yes, and she came! That like never happens here! It was a great lesson about the Restoration of the Gospel, and we really hope she felt something. She said she'd contact us again, and this time I actually believed her. 

Love you all, thank you for your thoughts and prayers. See you soon.

Elder Miner

Pizza with the Mont Dore Elders. They had a car inspection so they spent the morning with us contacting like crazy, and then we got a pizza for Elder Scroggin's one year mark.

One of the Heiva games, a rock lift. This one weighed something like 200 pounds.

                                         The Heiva dance floor.