Elder Kyle Van Lindt - Tahiti Pape'ete Mission

Bonjour! This was such a good week here at the MTC! I absolutely love it here. Both of the Tahitian Districts are full of amazing people and I am so lucky to be around them. Our district is growing so close and everyone seems to get along great. I have found a love for reading my scriptures while I have been here at the MTC. Every second of free time I find myself reading the scriptures. It is so awesome to be able to read the scriptures and understand everything that is going on. Last Saturday, I sat down and read all of 2 Nephi in one sitting! This week was the Mission President training here at the MTC so all of the Apostles came to teach the missions presidents. On Tuesday night Elder Bednar came and spoke to all of us. It was amazing. Not to mention 10 of the 12 Apostles were sitting on the stand! It was such a powerful devotional. Then after the devotional on Tuesday night, we were lucky enough to meet our new Mission President, President Fox. President and Sister Fox seem

Ia Ora Na (Hello In Tahitian), This week has been so awesome at the MTC. The spirit is so strong here and I am always happy I am here. This week I taught five lessons to the same investigator with my companion and it was all in French. It was cool to see how much my confidence has grown since the first lesson I taught. It was super funny because the investigator became our new teacher yesterday! So now she knows all of our strengths and weaknesses. On Sunday, Donny Osmond came and spoke to us, so that was pretty awesome. He also wrote a song and performed it for us. We then got to hear a talk that Elder Bednar gave a few years ago to the missionaries in the MTC. It was cool because missionaries are the only people who have ever heard that talk. Then on Tuesday night Brother Hallstrom from the Seventy came and spoke to us. It was a very powerful meeting. The food here is still good! I've been eating so much. At every meal there are usually two lines serving different foods so

Bonjour! So it's been my first few days in the MTC and I am loving every part of it. The spirit is so strong here and I feel like I constantly have the Holy Ghost by my side. I had my first language class today and I actually remembered a lot of French and was able to understand my teacher. My companion is Elder Hedges. He is from Utah and is into theater and music. He has a big heart and we are doing well together despite our differences. Exciting news, I was called to be a District Leader, so that is pretty awesome. There are 20 new Tahitian Missionaries and I am in charge of 10 of them! I am so happy here and I can feel my testimony of the scriptures growing. I have personal study time every day so I have been reading my scriptures, studying Preach My Gospel, and studying our language textbooks. The food here at the MTC actually isn't that bad. I have eaten every meal so I can't complain. Tonight I have to teach a lesson to an investigator and it is