Soeur Spencer ~ Tahiti 2017-2018: Rappin' up in Oremu

Dear Friends and Family,

Alright, as tough as it is to leave my champion daughter, Sr Basset in my home (1ST and only) secteur de Oremu, Faa'a, I am now transferred to the other side of Papeete, in the zone of Arue. I am forming my second daughter who is a beautiful spunky Tahitian!!! Wohooo!!!

We had 3 (one was 8 years old) fantastic baptisms. One came thanks to a lot of last minute miracles.

We had a delicious Faatamaraa, with plenty types of Fafaru **shoutout to the Elders who were with us and gave in to the Tahitians peer pressure to eat it**, with Deborah.

I said goodbye to my Oremu fam which was sad. And my Zone fam, who have been awesome #ByeERob

The Zone fam

#Zone

We had a sondage in the mountains, and thanks to our ward fast we found some cool potential amis. Granted I spent the majority of the sondage talking to a man about his polygamist life and how his wives live in separate houses right next to each other. Super cool

Fixed the baptisms for 2 amis who I love already so much! Dang transfer haha. They came to church one week and we started talking. Found out they were in fact amis. We set up a lesson with them and went over. Apparently they hadn't really heard much about God or religion but they had heard if you go to church you will receive blessings. So... they found our church and came Sunday. She said the minute she walked in she felt different. I was very touched by her openness to our message. The second lesson we arrived and before we started, our investigator wanted to explain how she had read the Introduction, the Testimonies, and until page 10 in the BOM (In one day). She said she had never slept better that night in her life! She had forgotten how to pray but she lives with her little 10 year old nephew who is mormon, so she humbly asked if he could teach her how to pray. She didn't let her incapacity keep her from praying. I find that incredibly humbling. We explained the Plan of Salvation, and she accepted baptism.

It is cool to teach lessons and recognize how my French companion is the exact fit for this secteur. Her life experiences just gel so nicely with the needs of this secteur. I have so much respect for my comp!!

Mino and DMP

For the baptisms, we had Mino!! Finally! Haha He's been ready since July! He was baptized by our DMP and I am so pumped for his family. It is just the beginning.

For our miracle, that would be our 9 year old Pearl. She has been taking the lessons for a year, and no one in her family are members and most of them hate mormons except for her mother. She just moved, so we started our first lesson with her last Saturday. We decided that she was ready to get baptized earlier than her date in November, so we proposed the 23rd and she said yes. So when we went to go talk to her mom (2 days before the baptism), it was pouring rain. And because her family hates mormons, we couldn't enter their house, so we panicked and asked God to stop the pouring rain for 5 minutes. In 10 seconds the pouring rain stopped, we talked to her mom outside, signed all the baptism papers, and left. Blessings! The day of her confirmation she missed the bus to the church and their motorcycle was gone, but her mom found a scooter from a women to take Pearl down to the church. Such a champ!