A Cooky Week-- Week 39

(Technical note from Ty's mom.  I have no idea why the margins are messed up on this post.
And I don't know how to fix it.  Sorry!)

Ka oha nui everyone from the Marquesas - the land where things have been going

awesomely with my new companion, and we now have all of our own inside jokes

(including over-use of the word "cook" to replace explitives).

This week, I've been showing Elder Davis around the Marquesas! He's been apprec-

iating it a lot more than Abbate seemed to, and the two of us are getting along really

well. He loves it here even more than I do, I dare say, and I'm glad that he will

(presumably) me my replacement out here. We've been seeing a lot of the families that

we haven't seen in a while too, and that's been really great. Particularly Celestine and

her kids and the Bonno family. It's been fantastic!

Work has been pretty alright as well. We've scored some more lessons than the average

week this week (still not the Standard of Excellence but still), and we got another reference!

Louis and Michelline's daughter has been living with their member integrator (that bishop,

James) and he called us about their daughter's friend; Ahuura. She's been talking with their

Tehani (their daughter) and is interested in taking the lessons! The only problem at this

point though is her mom not wanting her to, and that right there can be some pretty shaky

ground sometimes. 

At this point though, we've decided to pray together (her and us) every night at 8:00 for that 

specific reason (it was James's idea. Wards do it to help the missionary work improve, so we 

thought we'd try it). Louis and Michelline are doing really well as well. We've been working 

closely with Coco to help them stay active, and the branch has been taking good care of them 

as well.

All in all, things are going really well out here. Elder Davis and I are just living large and loving 

life right now. Being on a mission has been like, really fun as of late, and the both of us are very 

thankful to be here. I feel awesome right now!

Hoping everyone is well,

Elder Harrah

-Elder's first fafaru (pfft he barely ate any. I take that crap with fermented coconut and lemon

now!)

-a rather exceptional sunset (Davis was floored)

-dock at Hatiheu

-on the way to Aakapa

-"family pic" with the Tehivas

-a picture we sent to Davis's old companion (the guys at his old house sent him pictures of them like,
wearing his shirt he forgot and eating his favorite pizza and playing with his Rubik's Cube and chilling
with his favorite sister missionary)

-we found a top hat in the only store in Hatiheu. I don't even know if they sell milk there

-a centerpiece the Richard kids put together for our last family home evening

-they finally finished this cool bench/roof/combo-thing down by the port in our town! I really like it. 

They put the colors of the flag on there and everything