Soeur Isaacson's Mission

How do you measure, measure a year AS A MISSIONARY? 525,600 minutes as a missionary WHAT IN THE WORLD!!!!!! Went by SOOO FAST! I did nothing to celebrate but ya know measuring this year with all the love I've received and it's been a reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaalllllyyyyyyyy y big year. #grateful I just wanna say that we need to change. We have a real problem. We need to do better and be better. Specifically on one topic in particular. We need to improve on how we share our food. TAHITIANS AND TONGANS SHARE FOOD AS MUCH AS ALMA THE YOUNGER SHARED THE GOSPEL NO JOKE. I'm pretty sure I have never seen a Tahitian (or Tongan aka my comp) eat ANYTHING without offering to share with you. I'm over here making myself my food and eating all by myself and the Tahitians are inviting people to eat with them before even knowing their name! Never eating a can of Pringles alone again. I think their love language is food. True Christlike love right there. Anyway, this week we met l...

Malo e leilei everyone!! Too lazy to organize this email so day by day update here we go! Monday: transfers, driving to and fro. I'm officially healed from the dengue! I LOVE MY COMP! She's like a Polynesian ball of light and energy all the days spreading love confetti in Tongan, English, Tahitian and french at the same time. Tuesday: Lost a fourth of a tank of gas driving people to their secteurs and picking up new missionaries then we stopped at the house right before our lesson that night and I fell asleep for 20 minutes and my comp just left me like that lol. Wednesday:Had a lesson with Kimihere, 7 yr old son of a less active member. We taught him and his 2 friends about the Holy Ghost by blind folding them and having them go to the other side of the room without touching the chairs. Each time they touch a chair they had to spin around. Then the last round we guided them with our voices. the last time we did it the little girl wanted to guide Kimihere so we l...

Yep I got the dengue this week. Its a disease that comes from the lack of mosquito spray... which I was definitely deprived of this transfer. I had a nasty fever, stomach pains, every joint in my body hurt, and a headache and I almost past out if I sat up for more that a couple minutes from Tuesday night until today. Feeling way better today but now I have a red rash from head to toe so we'll see how that goes... But the sisters were angels giving me all their apple sauce and staying at home for DAYS and making sure I hadn't died yet. Real VIPs. Other than that not much to report... staying in Faaa with soeur ULUNGA, my favorite Tongan (besides grandpa) ever! gonna miss soeur Faatau like the dickins love her TO DEATH! Are you kidding meI cant believe she's gone. But we're gonna have fun together. Also Monday our ami Johanna taught us how to make ties and she made some GORGEOUS ones for me! She was so sweet and we laughed the whole time. Love her! Yep. He...

It's been really rainy and windy this week and I almost turn on the heater in the car but then I thought that would be like a crime in Tahiti so I didn't. Our dear friend Maeva FINALLY got baptized!!! Wahooo! She's been following the church for 3 years and has seen SO many huge miracles to get her to this point! Her son got converted 3 years ago, and left on a mission a year later and throughout his entire mission she'd been taking the lessons and the ward had been doing everything possible to help her be converted. Finally her son came back and baptized her!!! Both of them had lots of tears shed that night, it was simply beautiful. We had a Preach My Gospel fireside for all the ward leaders and ward missionaries and it was awesome! We helped them be more comfortable and motivated to do missionary work and help the wards do the same. Afterwards we had sooooo much pizza, we basically took a whole box home... pizza breakfast for days whooo! Had the cutest less...