Faatamaara'a Mercy--Week 60

(I swear this is the last title that's a Kanye reference. Most inappropriate mission-joke ever)

This week was an adventure. Elder Lloyd (who was one of the people we shipped off for transfers a couple weeks ago and one of Elder Davis's bros) has fallen desperately ill. We're still not 100% sure what's wrong with him.  He was in the hospital and had to go through 4 spinal taps!  FOUR!  I felt so bad for the guy.  They were not able to get it in the first 2 times.  


Anyhow, he's not doing to well, and they were kind of keeping him in the hospital as a prisoner, so we got him out of there as soon as possible ("we" meaning President and Soeur Bize (who were absolutely livid)), and this last week he's been living at our house (as Elder Hanson is basically already a doctor (thanks college) and because he knew Lloyd super well. Also we're here in the city, so yeah). My companion fell ill for a couple days too, so I went with Ford and Hanson for a couple days to try and work in both of our sectors. Everybody's numbers suffered. I broke my standards streak. Honestly it felt good though. It can be super stressful to live up to that standard, so it was really nice to just help other missionaries this week. I helped Lloyd, the zone leaders, and we had like 5 temple lessons. It's a lot more fun to just do benevolent service as a missionary and not worry about my own numbers. I like it.

We had the Conseil des Dirigeants ("leaders council", I guess? It's really just called the conseil des dirigeants...), starring yours truly. I literally have my own separate time each month where I get to go up in front of President and all the leaders ever and talk about MY visitors center and my plan for it! It was way fun. I pitched my splash trailer/intro video that I want to shoot, and I got President's approval to use Soeur Bize's DSLR! I'll get to shoot with a real camera! I mean, I'm still currently with the magic of Windows Movie Maker 2.6, but hey, piracy exists too, right? (okay I'm not funny. I'm the worst missionary ever...)

The only picture I have today (here at the wonderful geneaology center) is our one from the conseil des dirigeants, as it is in digital form. I will have to send others throughout the week, but for now, this is what I've got for you guys, and honestly it's the best one. I'm actually rather proud of this picture. We all look like studs. Also, 7 of the original 22 from my MTC promotion are now leaders. Super proud.

Going to start going nuts on temple vids.  Hope everybody has a good week.

Elder Harrah

NOTE FROM TYS MOM:  I was not able to download the picture Elder Harrah sent this week.  I will have him resend it next time.  Sorry!  In the meantime, here is a picture to hold us over.  Its one of my personal favorites from way back...





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The End of TIME-- Week 103

Image
I find it a bit inappropriate to merely say what I did in this last week, here in my last  real  email, so I wanted instead to use this occasion to reflect and look back. ... and then yesterday we went into the city and afterwards spent a bunch of time with missionaries from some other zones, so we ended up having no time to do mail. Classy. So today I find myself pressed for time and without many words. I feel like the greatest summary of all I've felt and learned will be in my homecoming talk, but even so, I would honestly just like to take the time to say how much I love this gospel and how different my attitude towards the gospel and how to handle what's really important in life has changed so much, and I can't wait to continue to share this same beautiful and wholly  real  light that exists in this world, and is all that really counts. Please everyone that reads this, know that I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that the only way to even stay sane in
Read more

"What if this is just a Lovely Bones trap?"--Week 99

Image
Monday The shortened p-day. We took the time to plan out this activity that we're going to do for our ward, and went to go do a family home evening that mostly just got cancelled (whoever the investigator was was out drunk) Tuesday In the morning we went to the temple, and that was quite nourrishing (it felt like years since the last time I'd been), and then we went and had a multi-zone conference with President Fox. It went super well. He shook hands with everybody and took the time to talk to us all a bit. He and Soeur Fox are quite nice. We also went to a funeral in the evening at the Protestant church. Sad deal. It was the mom of my old DMP from Haapiti. It was a nice service though. Everyone was trying to keep their chin up and they sang some fun, loud, Tahitian Protestant hymns with the usual drums and ukeleles. Wednesday A full day's work. We had lots of lessons today. The best one was definitely with Mereani and Poeiti. They were super shy before, but
Read more

Pomme Poire Williams: "They Coming with Knives, They Coming with Guns"--Week 101

Image
Longest. Week. Thank heaven it's over. Monday Chilled in this guy's sweet field and hung out with the goats there. It was very tranquil. Tuesday Work. We were busy from 10 am until clear into the night. We had a lesson every hour! I was grateful to have a full day of work, but at the same time, since I was feeling sick it was just kind of torturous. Wednesday Same deal. Super busy. Did a service project and helped plant pineapples. They had a lot of them in their field. The bushes that the pineapples grow from actually give forth to baby bushes too, and you just pluck them off the bush as if they were fruit and you plant them and you have more. Weirdest thing. Thursday A full day as well. The same as yesterday really only replace service project with weekly planning. For a moment we were pedaling our bikes and I just wanted to die. I even sent a text afterwards to Elder Smith and Elder Packer to shoot me with a spear gun. Super worn out. This week was d
Read more