170 years

170 Years



Bonjour everyone!



This week has been very different to say the least, but I love it just the same



IT was the big hurrah Friday and Saturday 170 years of the Gospel in Tahiti it’s Amazing! And on Friday we were able to see so many culture dances of all the islands of the pacific. It was amazing! I will send some pictures next week because I forgot my camera. Haha I am sorry! Well anyway it was super cool and then on Friday we heard from a few speakers and all the missionaries sang called to serve, after we had a parade around the stadium, everyone clapped and cheered for us! I felt like a Star again! Well anyway it was super cool!



Random Quick note: Gold Bond... well it says it dries so we decided to puff some under our arms because it is so humid and sticky all the days. It does not dry, it is icy/hot in powder form, I don’t know if it was because we put way too much on or what but it was bad and kinda nice at the same time.



Any way a quick little story that I just love! So this week we talked to Denise on Thursday, and we set up a first lesson with her the next day. We arrived at her house and she was all ready to start before we got there! So we sat down and we stared talking and we introduced ourselves and told her a little bit about our families, and then we asked her if she wanted to tell us a little about herself. She told us that she has talked to the missionaries before but didn’t take the lessons, then she started to cry, she told us that she has had some problems in her life and proceded to show us her house arrest bracelet around her ankle covered by large socks. She told us that she had seen and recognized a book of Mormon among her brothers belongings and took it and started to read, she told us that she wanted to change and feel peace in her life again so she started praying that the missionaries would come to her house and teach her, because she couldn’t leave to come find us. She told us that we were the answers to her prayers.



I just want to end with what I know to be true. No matter where we are in life, no matter how deep or how confined. God knows us and there will always be way that he will show his love, by a friend, a family member, an answer! But you will never find what you’re not looking for. Look for Love, look for God, look for Change, Hope, Faith, whatever it might be and you will find it.



I love you all

I pray for you



Elder Moller

Better late than never

friends family and everyone In between! happy 170 years of the church in tahiti! woo!

Work was good this week we have been working close with each if our investigators to give them any help that they may need, and the members here are so kind! a little to kind. I have thought this before but Tahitians just like to eat.. a lot. And some days two dinner appointments just kinda happen... I never know how it happens I try at all costs to avoid it! but this week it happened and I was so ready! so we go to the first members house and it is all rice and beans and bread, hearty! so I eat far to much for a half a stomachs worth and I was just thinking that I would eat a little bit for our next dinner. well we go and we get there and they made us a whole American dinner with fried chicken and mashed potatoes and French fries and salad. oh heavenly goodness. it was so good I couldn't help eating to much again, So I am so full and they make me eat another piece of chicken (when they say eat more in Tahitian you eat, and you don't complain) so I was eating this chicken as slow as possible I make sure at least 30 chews a bite. because I knew is I had an empty plate more fried chicken! so I left some chicken and went for the cucumbers in the salad because I could eat a little cucumber and it is supper crunchy so it sounds like a lot of food! so I hoarded the salad why my companion got another massive piece of chicken (Ha should have chewed more!) and I was so done! so I feel a massive brew of beans and chicken and fried broiling in my stomach, and I am ready to spit. then I hear "dessert!" oh dear I have never seen a chocolate pie so big in my life! my companion handed me this plate and oh my gosh I was not risking another piece of pie I at this pie slower than I have ever eaten anything in my life! well I finished it and I was so ready to go my stomach was on revolt! well we get out the door and I say "I am so full I'm going to throw up" haha my companion thought I was kidding! i walked far enough away from our members house and I leaned toward the gutter, it felt like a time bomb (my companion was still thinking I was joking) well the pie came first and I have never felt to good I started laughing I took a few steps and I was ready to go again! it was the most fulfilling experience! we walked some more I was still laughing (my companion was just starting at me, he just says "you have amazing control over that", "you just keep bopping around") I maybe had eight boisterous throw ups, all over my pants and shoes but that didn't stop my laughing, it felt so good! my companion told me he was jealous of me and I was just so relieved! so I learned a valuable lesson I'll try to relate it again well you know because I'm a missionary.  

in life there are many blessing and great opportunity to fill us up! (life is my first meal) but be need to be wise in this life and contently remember the promise of blessings in the life to come! (dinner two) 

because if we make bad choices in this life, what could be blessings in the life to come just turn into throw up all over your shoes, and then you smell like a big stomach ball in your next lesson, and you will be popping life savers in your mouth all night trying to get the smell your of your nose!!

my friends and family enjoy the blessings in this life, and remember god love for you so you don't waste time in this life and miss out In the life to come! 

I promise you that chocolate pie was my worst enemy! and it could have been so good!

I love you all and I will send my love again on Monday! 

be good be happy don't worry I don't have a eating disorder 

love you all

Elder Moller

Happy Mothers Day

I would like to start this email talking a little bit about one of our investigators and her son. We teach this woman Marie she is probably in her high fifties and all day she takes care of her handicapped son Henry. This family has very little and more than once have asked us for food. Marie is with her son all day helping him walk and eat, and each day they walk up Taapuna hill to sit at the top and talk. teaching and talking to Marie and Henry have really testified to me how much love can come from service. That's why moms are so special, because even if not as help is needed as Henry, mothers serve their children their whole lives! And so much love comes from that! Thank you mom, and thank you all moms! 

This week was busy and we are setting up many family nights with families! my French is coming along and Tahitian is crazy, at first it was a lot to take is two languages being thrown at me. but now is seems weird that there are places in the world with only one language! We finally cut down the banana tree in our backyard that I have had my eye on. so in a few days they will all be ripe at once. Bananas for days! then after that, Nasty bananas for days! this will be a challenge! also there is this mango tree right by our house, with this massive almost ripe mango 35 feet up, every day I throw smaller mangos at it missing it by inches! ugh it is so tantalizing! here let me try and be a missionary and relate that to something! Don't Waste your small gifts by only focusing on the jackpot when you will end up with nothing in the end, because you have bad aim! and even if you think you have good aim and you knocked the first mango you saw down, you will be a little shocked and realize. you can't catch and have the mango explode all over your shoes! 

happy Mother's Day, and have a wonderful week my friends and family

love you all

Elder Moller

Life of the wild one

I dont even know what to title my emails, haha I like this weeks though! So this week was good haha  so Monday we went to the store and they has these awesome lizard shorts, we all bought a pair because they are so cool! I might end up broke spending all my money on dumb things but I dont even care! Lizard shorts were more important. Okay a little bittle qbout our investigators, this week was awesome with them, most of then struggle with addictions so we visit most of them every day and see how they are doing, I love our investigators. So exciting news Hinano (my very first lesson in Tahiti was with her) We went to teach her and Elder Bakow was telling me how when they sing a hymn before a lesson the spirit is so much stronger, so we tryed it and after we sang she told us she finaly prayed and knows the book of mormon it true. pshhh I am singing in every single leson the rest of my mission, the best part is my companion and I get off and it kind of sounds like we are trying to sing in harmony, hahaha but really we just are bad. So I am so happy for Hinano! Also two of our investigqtors who we set a baptismal date for bought there wedding rings! Gisele and Jonario! Jonario ran out of the room so fast to grab the rings and was looking at them the whole lesson! there great!

Okay so our sector Taapuna is split into super nice and super not nice houses! and we know no one in the nice area so I wanted to chqnge that so this week we just went up there to talk with everyone. People are so funny up there, we had a old lady who saw us and ran (a very slow run) to a random house to escape, dont worry we didnt let her get away, she wasnt interested. Thats okay, but we did find Johnathan, he was very interested about the gospel and we had our first lesson with him. He was so accepting and friendly I hope somthing about our message can help him, I know it can! hopefully we cqn hqve more luck with the nicer side of Taapuna.

Well thqt was this week, no one has come screeming for an autograph yet...any day now.

ooooh also yesterdqy we ate fafaru blegh so it fish that they put in ocean water for a few days (nasty, ocean water... thats not safe, there is fish poop and ameabas in that water)

and then they make you rub it all around this sour coconut mix with your hands and eat it whie they stare at you repeating "its good, its good" easy for them to say. taisted like a big diaper, a big salty poop catcher! nasty! 

Love you all 

hugs and love

Elder Moller

so these qre some picks I took so we had Jonqrio qnd Gisele qnd their rings!

Moorea, basicqly what i see every day, such an eyesore

my carbalishous sandwitch

me and some mountains (screensaver quality)

and our lizard shorts 

I'm a Star

Hello again my favorite people.

I am sorry again I am cursed to be on this horrid French keyboard but I think I am getting better!  Like honestly this thing is the worst it is like almost normal but like the most important letters are switched, who does that? Okay sorry I’m over it. 

Tahiti is great this week and a month here went by so fast! This week was an interesting one because of the movie thing that I am in... Lets just start talking about that, so it was supper annoying because they would tell us it was going to be on Tuesday and Wednesday so we clear our whole day, and then they switch it to Friday Saturday, okay so there we are with zero plans for two days of the week and whatever we dealt with it fine, okay so filming day is here and I am kind of excited ya!

And I am getting ready for our day and I am ready to be a Star! So we drive to the mission office and it’s raining a bittle so we wait it out and were told our costumes were not ready so we wait and wait. I was sitting in the mission office for seven and a half hours, The price to pay to be a star is not cheap, okay so the day was a little rough to start out and we could have been teaching the gospel for 7 hours but its all good. So we go get our costumes and we look like Amish immigrants. I didn’t know we were making a movie of the first Amish missionaries? No problem so we get that and we go to the filming site, a black sand beach. Oh I don’t see that side of Tahiti every day... so we do a shot where we get baskets of fruit from the natives and we back away slowly waving goodbye. That was the hardest thing. Here I am on this beach getting free fruit and hats and I supposed to look sad about it. Plus every one looks Amish, best day ever.

Okay well after this we drive to some hose to do more scenes and the first thing the director says is "I lost the script, do any of you have it" any confidence I had in this movie went out the window. So we finished up and went back the next day!

So Saturday was awesome we drove to the other side of the island to film and we pretended that we were making a boat. The only wood that we had was logs, I don’t know how to build a boat but when choosing wood I would not want logs.. Anyway my big shot to stardom is I am inspecting a tree, they filmed me looking at this tree for so long, like what? So I like start knocking on the tree and nodding like " oh yes this tree is quite suitable" haha I’m a star!

What am I supposed to do for a minute looking at a tree!

So all in all I hope that we have some super editors!

So there was that I hope that one day it will inspire someone!

This week was fine a little different but good we also finished up our choir tour, it was so fun to be able to see and get to know all the missionaries serving here with me.

I love this work and I love being able to help people all day.

I really am thankful for the first missionaries here,

With all my love, your newly famous missionary

Elder Moller

Marama and Hinaia

To my family my friends and to everyone else who I love, everything is well in the little peace of Pacific that I love.

this week was the same as all the rest busy and hot! But it was so rewarding as well

at the beginning of this week we got a referral to a couple who lived in our area Marama and Hinaia (And don't ask me how I remember anyone's name here because I don't), so we set up an appointment to meet with them and have a first contact! 

we met at the church and they were both so nice and accepting of our message, they were both going to collage and they already had a few lessons with some Elders in Faaa, everything went super well and we ended our lesson by giving Hiniaia a blessing, I'll be honest I have no idea why Hinaia needed a blessing but I loved that she turned to the gospel for help in her life. so I listened for the spirit and I gave her a blessing in my broken French and I hoped that my French gave her the message that God wanted for her. our next lesson with this couple was even better, they told us that they want to get baptized and they and going to stop living together and go on missions. Oh my word. I'm still so happy for them! These investigators were so ready and so accepting!  I know that they realized that the message of the restored gospel bring happiness, and that nothing else could bring them the kind of happiness that the love of god brings. Life happens, oh my gosh it happens and it is not pretty a lot of the time, but that is when we need to broaden our view and look at the simple truths in life. We have a God who loves us, that truth is evident through so many things in our lives! God gives us trials to give us a chance to become more like him. how else could we become better people if we didn't have hard times we have to overcome. Ah I love that so much! Rely on Christ. turn to the happiness of the gospel just like my dear friends! haha thank you for that, I wish I could say that to everyone in French right now.

so that sums my week up pretty well! and okay you know that saying you don't know what you love until it's gone, I just always assumed it was talking about people, no I have come to find out it was talking about chocolate! 

we are living off weatbix ( bleugh I call them mummy fingers because it is like a granola bar made out of dryed leaves and paper) 

and cardboard milk ( those cows in New Zealand have problems) 

so one day I had a cookie with like three chocolate chips in it..... it was like that cookie quenched and yearning in my soul, a hole was filled that I didn't even know was there! my life was complete after three chocolate chips!

don't take your family or chocolate for granted!! ( I threw family in there to make my self sound a little less crazy)

Okay and my companion fell asleep the other night saying his night prayer, but I'm never quite sure if he is praying it if he is asleep sometimes he prayed for so Long and I think he is just getting secret power naps! we'll anyway I was going to wake him up but I was already passing through REM, I was done. so he wakes up to me laughing at him and he thinks it has been like 30 minutes but it was past one in the morning and he thinks I a. jerk for leaving min in the ground so long and I am busting a gut because he fell asleep. well he knew better and he realized I was just laughing in my sleep! (I was probably dreaming about chocolate) and he said it kinda creeped him out, I just think it's funny! haha, I hope I was dreaming of chocolate. 

there is so much I have to say but just know I love all of you! 

rely on Christ

eat chocolate for me, where it doesn't melt in two seconds or get stolen by ants!

have a good week!

love ya guys!

Elder Moller

D&C 16:7 And, if you keep my commandments and endure to the end you shall have eternal life, which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God.

 

Island breeze. April 14

My family friends and who ever else might be reading this: The work is hard but it is worth it.

this week went by so fast but I could not have loved it much more!

for the past three weeks I have been here the mission have been doing a tour around the island and singing and giving a little history about the mission on tahiti. so every week all the missionaries on tahiti gather and we put on a big concert, there is about 120 of us and we sing in French and Tahitian. We are leading up to our big concert on the 23 of May we will be performing at the Papeete stadium and celebrating 170 years of missionary work in tahiti and her islands. It has been so good to be able to see all the missionaries I went through the MTC with and be able to get to know the other missionaries in my mission. we have also been recruited to be in some film about when the missionaries first came to tahiti. I think that I will be able to play an American who has no idea what he is doing pretty well! 

Also this week the other elders in our zone had a baptism and asked me to speak! I choose the longest and best scripture about baptism that I could find, haha it was so stressful but I think it went well! we also set a date for two of our investigators to be baptized! our lesson was short but I have come to learn that if you follow the spirit and trust in god that he knows what your investigators need and he really does use his missionaries as tools! I would also like to add that they started sacrament yesterday with "we will first hear from Elder Moller, and then who ever else would like to come share there testimony after" so okay my French is not very good normally, but when you throw me on stage with so many Tahitians starring at me hahaha I don't even want to know what I said! but it was good! 

I'm trying to this if anything else crazy has happened, nothing here really surprises me anymore, we were just sitting in one of our Lessons and the most fluffy bunny just hopped right to me and started eating my bread, I was kind of hoping that it would eat the cockroach it was by but is didn't. haha or the time our investigator came out to talk to us and he was in church shoes a towel and had a gecko in his hair! haha I don't know how you don't know if there is a small animal on your head, but he had no idea!

other than that it's just haha tahiti, chickens and scary dogs and cats everywhere! I think I'm starting to get tan, I'm really excited about it, that or all my bug bites are blending together!

I love you all so much and I pray for you and hope you are well!

let the spirit guide you!

be happy and know I love ya!

From Tahiti,  Elder Moller.