Elder Kyle Van Lindt - Tahiti Pape'ete Mission

Hello Everyone! I hope you all had a great week! This week was an awesome week for us down here in Tubuai! This last Friday we had transfers. I am staying down here in Tubuai but my companion Elder Harrision is going back to Tahiti. So I will be getting a new companion. Elder Harrison leaves on Wednesday and my new companion will get here on Wednesday. Apparently he is younger than me on the mission, so I will be the older one. I also got made District Leader out here on Tubuai. Which means I am in charge of the missionaries that are in the islands of the Australes. I am excited to take this leadership position and to lead other missionaries! It has still been super hot here in Tubuai. And sleeping on real beds is kinda weird! I kinda want to go back to the floor, because it is what I am use to. This week Elder Harrision and I found this crazy trail that goes through the island and is like off roading, but it is a total shortcut. It was so much fun even though we almost fell a to

Hello Everyone! I hope you are all doing well! This last week has been super hot! The hot season has hit here and not having air conditioning is really not fun! But I love it, I love the new experiences I have every single day. Each day is an adventure out here and it is so awesome! To explain the living standards out here I would basically say that we are camping. We got beds this last week so that was a blessing. We have been sleeping on the ground for the last 3 months so these beds are awesome! This last Saturday we had another baptism, so that was awesome! It was another miracle and happened in less than 3 weeks! She is such a sweet lady and it was so awesome being able to teach her and watch the change she has made in her life! This morning for our P Day activity we went to another island that is close to Tubuai. Is is a super, super small island and no one lives on the island, so we just got to go out there and explore! The water was so clear and blue! Also, the sun was be

IAORANA!!! This week was a pretty great week! The time is passing so fast, I can't believe it has already been 7 months! My mission has still been the best decision I have ever made in my life. I learn something new every single day. I have also learned so much about myself and I wouldn't trade this experience for anything! This past week the Mission President, President Fox, and his wife came down to Tubuai! It was their first time visiting this island so we had the pleasure of showing them around and introducing them to all the people. We spent the first day with the two of them visiting all of the Historical Church Sites. It was super fun, and the first time for me seeing a lot of them too! So that was super awesome! The next day the two of them came with Elder Harrison and I to teach a lesson. It was a great experience and was fun to be able to teach with the Mission President! On Friday morning we had a District Meeting, which is a meeting with the four missionaries of

What a great first week of 2018! We had a great week out here on the beautiful tiny island of Tubuai!! Last P-day, my companion, Elder Harrison, and I hiked the tallest mountain on Tubuai, Mount Taitaa! It is the highest point on Tubuai. It was such a beautiful hike and the view from the top was amazing! It was so cool being able to see the entire island! We have also had a few near death experiences this week as well! LOL The first thing was one night this week when we came home there was this centipede on the ceiling and it was almost a foot long! It was giant!! And the centipedes here if they bite you can actually be deadly. So we got buy spray and a lighter and torched the thing and then cut it up with our machetes! Then last night when we were riding our bikes home we had 4 different evil dogs come after us! This week on Wednesday, the Mission President, President Fox, and his wife are coming down to Tubuai! In front of our house there is this field and in the field there is

This week was a week full of miracles! I don't even know which miracle to start with. So we have this investigator named William. He took the missionary lessons about 2 years ago but then he stopped. Then 3 weeks ago he showed up at church with his family, so of course we went over and talked to him and introduced ourselves. One thing leads to another and we are talking about his experience with the missionaries and wondering why he didn't get baptized. My companion, Elder Harrison, asked him why he hasn't been baptized yet and he answered and said it is because him and his wife are not yet married. So then I asked why they weren't married. He replies and says that his wife doesn't want to get married yet, then in the background she comes up and says no they aren't married because he doesn't want to get married. So it was a total misunderstanding between the two of them! So then I was like, ok well why don't you get married? And then Elder Harrison says,