Elder Kyle Van Lindt - Tahiti Pape'ete Mission

Hello Everyone!! I hope you all had the best week ever because I had such a great week this week! Probably one of my most favorite weeks on the mission. I don't even know where to start! This week on Tuesday we did a split and it was so awesome! It was with the zone leaders. I stayed here and my companion went into the zone leaders sector. Elder Hollowell came into my sector with me and we are literally the same person! It was such a fun day full of laughing and getting a ton of work done. I was laughing and having such a good time that I didn't stress myself out and the lessons just went so well that day! Which brings me to my next story, Elder Hollowell and I had the best lesson ever this week with this investigator named Matahi! He is so awesome! He is 18 and just super cool. We went in with a game plan for the lesson and then we start and the Spirit hit me so hard. So I changed topics and started to teach about the Holy Ghost. It was one of the most spiritual lessons

Hello Everyone! Yes Tahiti is still BEAUTIFUL! And yes I am still alive after eating that Fafaru! This week has been pretty average for me. Nothing to fun or exciting has gone on, but I still have some things to share! Let us start by talking about me and my weight. So in just 1 month of being in Tahiti, I have gained 12 POUNDS!!! It is crazy! I think I look the same, so I am trying to figure out where the 12 pounds is!! Last P-Day was SO much fun! We drove about an hour to the other zone and did a multi zone activity. It was at this huge field and we played football and soccer and it was tons of fun! This week I went on splits with my Ward Mission Leader and it was so cool! He is such a nice and awesome guy! But it was so cool because I didn't have my companion there to do the talking, so it forced me to do the majority of the talking. And it actually went really good! It built my confidence a ton in the language. We had a service project this week where we painted one

Hello Everyone!! This week has been super busy with missionary work. We taught close to 30 lessons this week and got 7 new investigators! It has been crazy busy so my week went by so fast! I just want to start off by telling you all a normal day for me. I wake up at 6am every morning. Between 6am and 7:30am I exercise, shower, eat breakfast and get dressed. Starting at 7:30am my companion and I do our daily planning till 8am. From 8am to 9am I do personal study. Then from 9am to 10am we do companion study! Our first lesson usually starts at 10am. We usually teach like 3 lessons before lunch time. We go back home to eat lunch. After lunch we then go back out and teach lessons, find a new investigators, do service and visit members and inactives. We then have our Fa'atama'ara'a (dinner) around 6:30ish. After dinner we head home and shower and do personal things. Then bed time is 10pm. And that is a day of Elder Van Lindt! On Saturday the other Elders living in our house

Another week in the most beautiful place in the world! Tahiti is still awesome! This week was a pretty slow week for my companion and I. We had over 15 lessons cancelled on us this week, so that kinda sucked! But it is all good! We still had a ton of great lessons. Just not as busy as normal. And it rained a TON this week! So that is why a ton of lessons got cancelled. It doesn't make any sense to me, but when it rains Tahitians cancel the lessons. It rained SO much and then it gets super sunny and then it's just super humid! I have never seen so much rain in such a short amount of time! If it rained like this in California then we would be out of a drought in no time! Last P-Day was super fun! We went to the beach and played tons of sports! We got to play football on the beach for like 3 hours, so that was way fun! The beaches here are SO pretty! And then being able to play sports on the beach makes it even a milliton times better! The food is getting better! I still hav