Some pretty cool things have been happening
this week with two of our investigators. So we teach a young couple named
Bryan(20) and Raurea(17) and they can't get married because Raurea has to be 18
for them to get married and her birthday is in September. So we started
teaching them at the beginning of March and they have progressed so much that
they want to stop living together and get baptized now and wait all
the way until September to get married and live together.
This is nearly unheard of in French Polynesia.
In fact, Bryan told the ward mission director last night that he really wants
to go far in this church and he wants to serve a mission. He wants to leave the
girl he has been living with for the past 6 months and serve a mission. I have
never seen this kind of faith from any of my investigators. Honestly how much
they are progressing is shocking me.
I remember the first time I talked
to Bryan way back in February and I look at him now and how much he
has changed because of this gospel. Its experiences like this that really strengthens
my testimony. This church is so true and everyone here
in Polynesia can see it. This week I have just felt really in comfort
and I have seen many blessings, a lot through our investigators.
All of this is helping me to gain an even
stronger testimony. And this week we had our investigator Junior (14) gets baptized.
I gave him the gift of the Holy Ghost and it was a really neat experience.
His mom really wants to get baptized too but her husband doesn't want her to. Very sad that one person is holding back someone's salvation.
Junior and I before the baptism. He was stressing out to bear his testimony after the baptism
This is us with Junior's family. Bryan is the guy crouching right beside me and Raurea is in a green dress right behind me. His mom is in purple behind me also.
