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Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. July 24, 2013 - July 24, 2015.

Monday, January 27, 2014

Bonjour everyone! 

I hope everyone has been enjoying the nice cool weather up in the northern hemisphere. I want to just start out by saying that last week was pretty hot, as in probably at least mid-high 80's with near 100% humidity. That's not to brag or anything, that's just the preface for this next part. With that being said, we had BOTH of our fans die last week. That's what you get when the mission office(the people who send us stuff) buys us $13 fans and we use them 24/7 for a month. Luckily God really does work miracles and after only 5 days without fans we received another one from the mission office. This really is a miracle and I still do not understand how it happened. There have been things that we have ordered from the mission office over 3 months ago and we still have not received them. We ordered that fan from the office a little over a week before it arrived here. So that was our little miracle for the week ha ha.

The past two weeks have been interesting in the aspect of missionary work though. We started to have a lot more lessons down in the city of Hauti, located almost 4 miles south of where we live. All the trips down there make for some pretty solid thigh muscles. Through street contacting we were able to find another investigator named Yohan who is actually really interested in the church. Also we were able to start teaching a family of 6, which was a really neat experience. So after all of that we had a nice 7 new investigators for this week. Now they just have to get baptized ha ha.  Our investigator Alaska Taae is getting more and more prepared for his baptismal date for the 28th of February so that is super exciting. All in all, we have been very blessed this week and the Lord has been working some awesome miracles.

That is pretty much all the time I have for this week. Sorry its so short. Merci à tout les personnes qui lire cette page. Ua here au ia outou! Faaitoito noa e tamaa e tae noa'tu e farii outou i te oaoa. Until next time,
Orametua,

Elder Rose
Here is an action shot of a member getting a coconut

And here is proof of the fastest I have ever gone on my bike 58.1kmh-36mph (MXS stands for max speed). And yes this was going down a mountain, don't worry mom we wear helmets.    
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Elder Cody Tiler Rose
Tahiti Papeete Mission
The Church of Latter Day Saints
B.P. 93 Mormon Mission
Papeete, Tahiti 98714
French Polynesia

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Elder Rose's e-mail address: cody.rose@myldsmail.net


Monday, January 13, 2014

Hey everybody, its been an interesting last two weeks but I don't have a lot of time so I will just share the highlights. And I will preface this post by saying that the week of new years is full of many traditions and celebrations here on Rurutu. 

During new years week we were able to participate in a Rurutu tradition called the Tere (which means voyage in Tahitian) where people from the whole island form a convoy of cars and drive around the island, stopping at each city to tell the story/history of the cities, and directly after the story telling there is a tradition where different people lift three very large rocks, the smallest around 60Kg (about 130lbs) and the largest weighing aroung 135Kg normally (nearly 300lbs) and people just go and lift up the rocks onto their shoulders. Very impressive. So we spent a good chunk of a day doing that.

This was a little less interesting thanks to the massive amounts of rain that we have been receiving from a cyclone near Tonga. Every time we would try to go visit members (during the rainstorm) they usually would make us come inside and wouldn't let us leave until it was done raining. But this week was cool also because I got to change the brakes on my branch president's truck. Its been the first time in about 6 months that I have been able to work on a car and it was awesome. Also, it was cool because right after I changed the brakes my branch president (who is a fisherman also) let me take a picture with the 14Kg-30lbs Mahi mahi that he had just caught (picture should be below this post). So that was super awesome.
This week we made some major progress with our investigator Taae also. The only thing really keeping him from being baptised was the word of wisdom - his addiction to alcohol. Coolest thing ever, during our last lesson with Taae I committed him to stop drinking alcohol and on the spot he agreed to stop drinking alcohol and live the word of wisdom. That was our little miracle for the week with Taae.
And this last weekend the church leaders from the nearby island of Tubuai came to visit Rurutu and give some leadership training and set some new goals for the year. Rurutu's new goal. Create a new branch within a year and a half. So in order to do that there needs to be 30 baptisms before that time. So basically we have a lot of work to do right now haha! 
Anyway, thats the major hilights of the week.  I have been able to see God's hand in things this week and have been able to witness some little miracles. I know that God has a plan for every one of us and that he does have a hand in everything. And I know that the Book of Mormon is the coolest, most true book on the face of this planet. That was my week though. Thanks to everyone who reads this. I hope everyone has an awesome week, and until next week, faaitoito
Elder Rose

                                               Here is a picture of me with the 14Kg mahi mahi

and here is a picture of a big guy lifting a big rock during the Tere.

Monday, January 6, 2014

OK, no blog post this week, but next week I will have a big update.  Here a few pics from this weeks work.


                    Here is a picture of Elder Ollerton and I with our elders quorum president, Matias 

And here is a picture of me below the welcome sign in our city Moerai.

Faaitotio e maiti i te maitai, e e mea roa to'u here no outou i o ra.
Elder Rose
Send letters to:

Elder Cody Tiler Rose
Tahiti Papeete Mission
The Church of Latter Day Saints
B.P. 93 Mormon Mission
Papeete, Tahiti 98714
French Polynesia

Letters take 6-8 weeks (use 3-4 stamps)
Packages take 12 weeks

Elder Rose's e-mail address: cody.rose@myldsmail.net