This week we got to do a couple service projects and they were pretty cool.
The
first one we picked avocados off a families tree and it was fun. The
mom and the daughters speak french because they're from Tahiti or
something like that. I tried practicing a little bit, but looks like I
have a long ways to go haha. They have some exchange students that are
staying in their house from the states so we met some girl from Florida
that is here.
The second one was for a family that has a
little baby. They live in a small one room house with a little kitchen
and bathroom attached. We went because they had a lot of mold growing in
their house because of humidity and the baby was getting sick. So we
got all of the mold off the walls and whatnot and then we put up some
kind of anti-mold paint. We'll be going back in a couple of days to
finish painting. They are a really cool family, the wife is from
Colombia and the guy has been mission leader like 6 times he said. They
were super nice and they made us a nice kiwi lemon drink thingy that was
super tasty.
Also this week we had Elder Packer come to the
mission. He's the son of the apostle. It was a lot of work to get
everything ready, but the trainings were really great. He was talking
about how as a general authority he has lots of meetings, wakes up early
to travel, spends lots of time on airplanes, and does a number of other
things that usually aren't enjoyable. But he said "It's all worth it
because it's true." It's worth it to push through the harder parts of
life or of things we have to do because we know that Jesus is the
Christ, His Church is restored, and that families can be together
forever. So it's worth it to do all the stuff that He asks of us.
Hey I love you guys a lot and hope that you enjoy having the babies over there!
Elder Cheney
