Elder Kyle Van Lindt - Tahiti Pape'ete Mission

Hello all of you beautiful people! I hope you all had a wonderful week full of joy and happiness! And I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season! This week was pretty interesting to say the least ... actually it was just one day that was actually pretty crazy, and it all happened on my 6 month mark! Let me just tell you about this day that we had. It was a beautiful Thursday, we were actually on a split  so I was with Elder Cottle and he came to our sector I serve in. It started off as a normal day, we had a lesson in the morning and all was well. We went and passed some members and other investigators just to say hi, then we go to lunch, had a great lunch and got on our bikes to head home ... and this is when it all got crazy! As we are riding home it starts to rain, no big deal. We are riding on the road that goes through the island and it has 3 big hills that we go over. We get to the top of the first and when we are going down if we go fast enough, we can make it up t

I AM STILL ALIVE!! I apologize for no updates this past month! The internet on this little tiny island that I am on wasn't working, so I haven't been able to talk to ANYONE! But I am alive and well!! So much has happened this last month. One of our recent converts here just got married a few weeks ago and we were able to go the wedding! It was so much fun and we were able to eat a ton of weird foods. So, we were about to start eating and this person brings out this huge plate that is covered up and sets it right in the middle of the table. Then they proceeded to uncover this plate and BAM it is a cow head!! They just cooked a cow head for the center piece! And we literally just grabbed meat off the skull of this cow head with our hands and ate it! The craziest part is, it wasn't even that bad! Also, here on this tiny little island there are a TON of wild dogs, and they don't like the missionaries! So for our protection we decided it would be best to buy machetes! No