Week 64 - Papeari

IOARANA MEA MA!!

This week has been quite the week!

It is my first week in Papeari! I am serving in the Ward of Vaihiria with Elder Peck and we are the zone leaders! It has honestly been one of the best weeks of my mission! Elder Peck and I get along so great and work so well together!

We have been working so hard this week and we have been seeing miracles! I am sure that this transfer will be a transfer of miracles!

I got to go the Temple again this week! It just happened that the zone of Papeari was this week so I was able to go again and it was great like always! I love, love, love the temple!
Me, Elder Peck, Elder Danielson and Elder Hansen

The place we are living in is so awesome! Papeari is like the Amazon Rain Forest! We are literally camping! Our house is a huge cabin! It is so big for just the two of us! We sleep outside practically and it is great!
 This is our view where we sleep, there are no walls up here, so we sleep with our mosquito nets
 This is our eating area
This is my study area

I love, love my mission so much! It is by far the best experience of my life! I wouldn't trade it for anything! I hope you all have a great week and stay dry, because it is pouring rain here!

I love you all,

Elder Kyle Van Lindt

P.S. No more mini van for me ... We upgraded to a truck!
 The front of our house 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 82 - Life in the Big City!

Image
Bonjour tout le monde! I hope that you all had a great week and started off the New Year well! I am in my new area and I love it! It is a lot different then my last but I love my new companion! He is from France and we are literally the same person! It makes such a difference in the missionary work when you get along with your companion! The work goes so much smoother and it is a lot more fun! I love it! Like I said last week, I am in the city part of Tahiti, it is different, and there are a ton of people, but I like it! I will admit it is not the best being back on the bike again. I guess the workout is good! Elder Banthoud and I got some champagne this week for the New Year! Bien sur without alcohol! LOL Elder Banthoud and me This week we gave 13 blessings. It is crazy how often we go to the hospital to give blessings! During the week we went and blessed one of our investigators. He was having a lot of pain in his shoulder and lost feeling in his arm and couldn't really
Read more

Week 23, 24, 25, 26 - I AM STILL ALIVE!!

Image
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
Read more

Week 28 & 29 - Miracles Really Do Happen!!

Image
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,
Read more