Elder Cody Tiler Rose

Monday, January 5, 2015

New years breakfast with some of the ward

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Its Christmas already?! This past week we were able to celebrate Christmas as a zone and we did a white elephant and played games and ate raw fish and beef together; we had a blast. I would like to wish everyone a merry Christmas. On my mission I have really been able to appreciate the real meaning of Christmas. I am extremely grateful for our savior Jesus Christ and for this time to show him our love and appreciation. Through service we can help others feel Christ's love for them. If any of you have friends that you think would be interested in the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ of the please don't hesitate to contact the missionaries. That would be the best gift to receive or give this holiday season. Thanks for all your prayers and support and I pray that everyone will have a great Christmas. Merry Christmas to everyone!

Best Christmas present ever!

This is Tepoihere. She is 9 and lives in the Tuamotu islands (islands really far away without a church on it). She came here to Raiatea so she could get baptized se we had the honors to prepare her for her baptism. She was baptized by her grandpa on the left.

Sunday, December 14, 2014

This is a famous rock here at Raiatea. The legend of this rock goes like this; A long long time ago here at Raiatea the men were taller than this rock. If a boy reached the age of 18 and wasn't taller than the rock they would cut off his head. I don't think I would make the cut :(

We had another baptism this week. Wesley (left) and Ocean (right) were married last week and Ocean got baptized last Friday even though she was really sick that day.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

So news for the week, I got transferred again! This time I went very far, from Tahaa to Raiatea (neighboring islands, about 5 miles apart). I am in the city of Tevaitoa and our area includes the ward of Tevaitoa and a neighboring branch. One of the best things about this transfer would have to be the truck that we have now, a beautiful Toyota Hilux. My legs are sighing in relief right now. It was sad to leave Tahaa with Elder Franco because we were really making some good progress in that branch and I was really attached to our investigators and the members over there, but I found that the members in my new ward are very inviting also. We eat very well over here, the members feed us at least once a day, so we shouldn't have any problems with that. Also we have a good amount of progressing investigators and we even had a marriage last Saturday for one of our investigators who will be baptised this Friday.

The work is good here. This gospel is such a blessing to us all and it is such a joy to be able to share it with everyone. We are all so loved and blessed by our Heavenly Father and I know he hears and answers our prayers. Thanks for everyone's thoughts and prayers. Also because people only celebrate French holidays here I forgot that Thanksgiving was last week so I would like to wish everyone a happy late Thanksgiving. I hope everyone got all their black friday shopping done in safety. Now we start the Christmas countdown. Have an excellent week everyone!

So the story to this picture goes like this. Our door can only be unlocked by a key from the inside and outside. Elder Gouttin, the Elder that I replaced, took the 1 house key with him when he took the plane to Tahiti. We asked the couple that works in the mission office to send us the key but they weren't in too big of a rush to get it out to us. For 5 days we climbed through the back window to get in and out of our house. We didn't want to let anyone else see how we were getting in and out of the house so we had to keep it on the DL every time we did it. That was fun.

We had a baptism this past Saturday. In the middle is Marama, the new convert, and on the right is my companion, Elder Teihotu. I had the privilege to give him the gift of the Holy Ghost.