Elder Kyle Van Lindt - Tahiti Pape'ete Mission

Hello all you wonderful people! I hope you all had an amazing week! This week was a pretty awesome week! There was some changes this week so it kept things interesting. I was on split with one of the other Elders (from the other side of the island) for the whole week. His name is Elder Nauta and he is Tahitian. It was super awesome and we had a fun time! I really felt like I was in the culture when I was with him because he doesn't speak any English, so we talked all week in French! It was helpful having someone who speaks the language to help you out! I learned a lot from him and his is also still in training, so I was able to help him out with that! We started teaching this couple about 2 weeks ago and yesterday they came to church for the first time. When they walked in to church I had so much joy and happiness fill my heart! It makes me so happy when investigators we are teaching become closer to Christ and have that joy in their lives! Last P Day we went and played foo

Hello Everyone! This week was a good week! It wasn't too exciting but there are still some things I want to share with you all about my week! Let's start with Wednesday this last week. It was a normal day of missionary work and we had some extra time so we decided to go and do a little finding. We went down this dirt road and there was a house all the way at the end. So we go and get to the house and yell 'laorana' at the house from the road and hear nothing. Then we yell again and we hear a voice from the other side of the road, and it ends up being the owner of this house. He tells us to come over so we could talk with him. There are a lot of trees so we start walking into the trees and next thing you know we are in a Bee farm...Yes I said Bee Farm! He is in the middle of the bee farm doing his work. He tells us that the bees won't sting us as long as we don't try and hit them! My companion looks at me and says there is no way he is going in there. I look

Hello Everyone! This week was another great week on Tubuai! I love this island so much. The people are the nicest people ever and it is such a privilege to be here with them. The Tahitian culture is a LOT different from America, but I feel that now it is a part of me. This week we have had a lot of opportunities to do some contacting. We are working hard to find new people to teach and it is working. We are so blessed! Yesterday we found 5 new investigators that want to take the missionary lessons. I can also tell that my teaching skills are improving. It is fun to be energetic and really get in to everything! This week we also started teaching an English class! Usually they are pretty difficult to get set up and people don't always come, but this week we had our first class and we had over 20 people come! I love being able to teach English to the people of Tubuai. It is such a blessing being able to speak in French and Tahitian and communicate with the people here  so we can

Hellooooo This past week has been an awesome week! I am still out on Tubuai but I got a new companion this last week. His name is Elder Blazzard, he is younger than me on the mission. His is super awesome! This first week with him has been good and it seems like we will do just fine working together! This past week we did a TON of contacting to try and find a new investigator to teach. I love contacting. Most missionaries don't really like it or feel comfortable doing it, but I love it so much. Contacting is when we literally walk up to anyone we see and just try and talk to them and a start a conversation. I love it! It always gets your heart going because you honestly have no idea what you are going to say before hand or how they will receive you. But I really enjoy being able to go around talking to everyone and sharing our message. I know it can bring so much happiness to peoples lives, so I am not afraid to share it! You always meet the coolest people and have the best con