I'm Home. Tahiti.


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. 

Tahiti. That's it.

I LOVE TAHITI SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO MUCH!!!!!!!! 

IT'S LITERALLY ONE OF MY FAVORITE PLACES ON EARTH!!!!

It's SO Pretty!!!!!! My zone is literally just a road that starts at the base and goes up into the mountain. My constant backdrop is GORGEOUS green mountains with a waterfall way off in the distance. We ride our bikes up and down with jungles and shacks and fruit trees all around and I'm just in awe. It's just so pretty here and the food is awesome, the fish doesn't even taste like fish IT'S WAY BETTER and there are flowers everywhere. every tree has either fruit or flowers on it. It is INSANELY HOT THOUGH.  You kind of just always sweat. Also I have at least 125 mosquito bites on my legs. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE, PEOPLE. Mamis literally run over to me and freak out and touch my legs and tell me to put sugar on them and stuff haha. It's so cute and funny. 

I'm really insanely blessed to be pretty comfortable with the language, I can understand usually at least half of what people are saying. It is scary when they ask you a question and you ask them to repeat like 12 times and I swear they're not even speaking French mais bref. Their accents are really hard to understand, especially the kids and mamis/papis (old people). I'm praying everyday for the gift of tongues.

AND GUESS WHAT? I gave my first baptism invite to a teenage boy (who was drunk/high/possessed by a devil last week) and his mom and they accepted!!!!!! He was so thoughtful and quiet during the lesson and I started asking him questions like do you believe Christ's church is on the earth? Do you want to be a part of it? Do you want to get baptized? And after every question he immediately responded yes, like so fast and sincere. And now we almost never see him with his drug dealer friends and he's so happy when we pass by and he came to church and agh just yay!!!! Praying he keeps it up and follows through!!! This work is so so so so so so so amazing!!!!!


My comp is just a gem. This is her last transfer so she's basically a native. She's so patient with my naiveness and she's so funny. 

Tuahine Isaacson

 

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