tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64070656683147763562024-03-14T01:00:05.915-07:00Tahiti TimesIa Orana!
I will be serving as a Missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the Islands of French Polynesia! I will be there for two years posting my adventures, and uplifting messages! Hope you enjoy my stories and photos!
.Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-82344773285883818092015-08-03T15:33:00.002-07:002015-08-07T05:55:58.459-07:00Maybe the last one...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVVjz6ANV6LusIbsdLqM0n9C3nUaJiGpXh75VrBncY6ChfhlKhvP5a16IIv-NqkNdbLEy9wFWyBaDFNu9uJur8IzdUKPQ4rOGWR-NxazkyGpcujmbLuZQBXswlR4IvfqRyY0uy9EQs3f4/s1600/DSCN2919.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVVjz6ANV6LusIbsdLqM0n9C3nUaJiGpXh75VrBncY6ChfhlKhvP5a16IIv-NqkNdbLEy9wFWyBaDFNu9uJur8IzdUKPQ4rOGWR-NxazkyGpcujmbLuZQBXswlR4IvfqRyY0uy9EQs3f4/s1600/DSCN2919.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVVjz6ANV6LusIbsdLqM0n9C3nUaJiGpXh75VrBncY6ChfhlKhvP5a16IIv-NqkNdbLEy9wFWyBaDFNu9uJur8IzdUKPQ4rOGWR-NxazkyGpcujmbLuZQBXswlR4IvfqRyY0uy9EQs3f4/s320/DSCN2919.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 August 2015 Mo'orea<br /><br />Well, I'm not sure if I'll have any time to do any writing next week so I'll write this as if its my last letter.<br /><br />Its been absolutely fantastique serving my mission here the last two years. It still really hasn't hit me that I'm leaving. It probably wont hit me until I'm home. I think it's better that way in the end. Well, I havent really prepared for a "last letter". I guess it should be filled with wonderful clichés and cheesy statements about missions and such. So, excuse me beforehand if it starts to smell a little like camembert.<br /><br />I think a mission to Tahiti can only be understood by those that pass through the experience. The people are incredible, absolutely incredible. You take out the internet, wordly concerns, fear about what people think about you, and a whole boatload of other things and you may be able to start to understand the people here. They are so wonderfully charitable. You can talk with almost anyone, everyone calls each other "couzin". They are all so worried about being "american" or "European" that it is hilarious sometimes to see how they have "assimilated" these cultures. There exists a war between two very different cultures, occidental and islander, and I hope it's the islander that will win.<br /><br />I'm going to miss being able to speak with people in Tahitian. I went through many pains to learn this mostly oral language. The language is about as living as the plants that are in a constant battle to reclaim the land that everyone fights their siblings for. There are not very many missionaries that speak Tahitian as well as I have been blessed to. I think there are maybe 4 or 5 of us, 3 of which are finishing. Sadly the language is slowly dying out. Some day I think </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll be a speaker of a dead language. But, that language helped with the conversion of many older people throughout my mission. Older people that could only be touched through their native language.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I'm not sure I'll ever eat as well as I have here. So many nights were passed with stomach aches that could have been avoided. But eats hard to resist when you have a Tahitian mami crying "Elder ma, Tamaa" and giving a stern pointed look that means "I made all this food, and someone better eat it".<br /><br />The people here are incredibly spiritual and humble. Most first contacts are super spiritual experiences, and the people have a natural God-given thirst for the gospel. I think it comes from the fact that they are so purely part of the house of Israel. These people will feel the spirit, know it's true and accept baptism after having only met you within a couple of weeks. It's incredible to see their faith in Christ. It's incredible to see that the Spirit really talks to these people in their hearts, thoughts, and quite often dreams. It's so wonderful to be surrounded by faith instead of skepticism and sarcasm. That's a lesson everyone of us needs to learn. God commands us to be as children, not intellectually, but in a more faith based sense. It's a lesson every person raised in occidental culture needs to learn.<br /><br />I learned enourmously here. It was really a refining time. I like the way I am now much more than how I was before I came to Tahiti. It's hard to describe internal changes, so I wont try. I think it's impossible to sum up the total accumulated knowledge of two years of study and teaching. As Elder Uchtdorf said, "I tried to contemplate the atonement, and could only come to this conclusion, that God loves every one of his children." (paraphrased) I think its the same for me. I understand a lot of things a whole lot better then I did when I left. Simply stated I know Christ lives. I know God is our Father, and that he wants us to become exactly like him! I know that we can change, and make commitments that will help us to achieve that goal. and that through the grace of Christ all this is possible. I stand by Nephi (chapter 11) when he said:<br /><br />6 And my soul delighteth in proving unto my people that save Christ should come all men must perish.<br /><br />7 For if there be no Christ there be no God; and if there be no God we are not, for there could have been no creation. But there is a God, and he is Christ, and he cometh in the fulness of his own time.<br /><br />Don't think I can express the sum total of my mission in any other way. Like Nephi that's what I love to do, and doing it with the power of the Book of Mormon changes lives, in time, and in eternity.<br /><br />Love you all, and I'll see you very soon!<br /><br />Faaitoito, à bientôt!<br /><br />Elder Molinari</span>Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comMo'orea, French Polynesia-17.5388435 -149.82952339999997-17.659971 -149.99088489999997 -17.417716 -149.66816189999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-15201288372176933292015-07-28T07:30:00.000-07:002015-07-28T07:34:34.784-07:00Lots of Pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">27 July 2015 Moorea</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXoIkW19xkbjs2ULw_9NK3kRiLqxF1TF1tzJ_DZ3wwyHr0vlNwP7qu7b9aZJCRF4JyPIce32G-00aueBmJ7SAI3B3U4jM3pGZQdv8M-RPn9TV3RX4p6pn5agV3saAw_kk0k1hbvUI27dE/s1600/DSCN2838.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXoIkW19xkbjs2ULw_9NK3kRiLqxF1TF1tzJ_DZ3wwyHr0vlNwP7qu7b9aZJCRF4JyPIce32G-00aueBmJ7SAI3B3U4jM3pGZQdv8M-RPn9TV3RX4p6pn5agV3saAw_kk0k1hbvUI27dE/s640/DSCN2838.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<br />Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comMo'orea, French Polynesia-17.5388435 -149.82952339999997-17.659971 -149.99088489999997 -17.417716 -149.66816189999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-53830802741695499942015-07-21T23:09:00.002-07:002015-07-21T23:47:19.086-07:00Good Week<div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, it rained...almost all week. Missionary work is tedious when it rains, well not really. Tracting is tedious when it rains, and we do a whole lot of that here. Our movie night for "Meet the mormons" was a success. Our new ami François came, thanks to the support we have from another member who served his mission in Australia. After watching meet the mormons for about the 10th time, I can safely say my favorite part is the pilot's story, followed by the Humanitarian. The members here are INCREDIBLE! Its only been 2 weeks and you'de think I've been here for a month.<br /><br />This week the pedal on my bike exploded. Well, the bolt exploded - good thing there were no cars on the road because it totally sent me veering into the middle of the road. So....the trooper almost made it to the end. Now I'm seeing what I have to do about the pedal...We do an Enourmous amount of biking here, but I don't think its as much biking as Tautira so its not too bad. I'm just very tired at the end of the day, thanks to my almost 5 months in a car.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Today we went to The hotel at the end of the Paopao sector. Dont ask me for the name because I cant remember. It was stunningly beautiful, and not a single person responded hello when you said hello to them. Welcome to the coldest part of paradise. Other than that we saw two dolphins do some tricks, and a small sea turtle sanctuary. Baby sea turtles love playing around in the water, its pretty amusing. Never before has the temptation to jump off a dock into CRYSTAL CLEAR water been so strong. Good thing there were railings on the bridge.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Since My father has been sending me speeches, I'd like to recommend one I find particularly enlightening. Brad Wilcox, on grace. Incredible talk. You can find it on BYU speeches.<br /><br />Love you all!<br /><br />~Elder Molinari</span></div>
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<br />Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comMo'orea, French Polynesia-17.5388435 -149.82952339999997-17.659971 -149.99088489999997 -17.417716 -149.66816189999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-52525790739257800722015-07-21T23:05:00.002-07:002015-07-21T23:05:36.676-07:00Post Coming Soon for 13 July 2015Our computer broke and I haven't been able to get to the post for last week.Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-41533989651951530132015-07-07T09:54:00.001-07:002015-07-07T10:06:30.232-07:00Transfer <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 July 2015 Tiarei</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hardly have any time to write you guys and since I'm on an American keyboard, its impossible to type quickly. I have a boat to catch to Moorea in an hour or so. I'll try to give events of the week through pictures! Oh, and I got changed at the last ;inute. I'm now going to Haumi at Moorea.<br /><br />Love you all, enjoy the pictures<br /><br />Elder Molinari<br /><br />We had 2 baptisms this weekend, and the font drained over night...call the firefighters!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The shorter sister on my left is Titiura, To the right is Hinerava. <br />Hineraa was also a miracle.<br />She decided to be baptised Saturday last Tuesday.</span></td></tr>
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Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141509 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179750000000009 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-57872839172805878022015-06-29T13:08:00.003-07:002015-06-29T13:08:50.363-07:00Transfers<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">29 June 2015 Tiarei</span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well its incredible, but I got transferred for the last 5 weeks of my mission. I'm going to Moorea, Paopao. I’m pretty happy; it’ll be nice to be on an island again. My companion is another Vanuatu, named Elder Tokalolo. The transfer was actually a "special assignment" designed to help elders who have been out for a while but have difficulty taking the lead, assume the responsibility. 3 others from my group that finish in 5 weeks have a similar responsibility. All in all I can't complain, Moorea is GORGEOUS, and the ward there works like crazy so It’ll be a nice send out. There’re no telephone poles in Moorea :)<br /><br /> </span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyways, this week we had an awesome experience! Titiura had her baptismal interview. The one thing that was preventing her from baptism was marriage. Her boyfriend said he would never marry her. So what did she do? The day of her interview, she came with all her possessions packed in two bags and announced she was returning to live with her mother. She has an incredible testimony, and it was amazing to see her leave the terrible situation she was in. After the interview she took the bus to her mother's house, and that was that. If that isn’t a literal example of faith, I don’t know what is. Especially since she had a testimony after reading the first Brochure we gave her, we hadn’t even taught yet! Just goes to show you that this is the Lord's work, He touches hearts. Choices determine destiny. Baptism is Saturday, just before the transfer happens Monday.<br /><br />Other than that it was a pretty average week. Its hard to believe I’m so close to the end!<br /><br />Love you all!</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Elder Molinari<br /><br /> <br /><br /> </span><br /> Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141509 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179750000000009 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-51999494929410462452015-06-22T23:31:00.003-07:002015-06-23T06:52:39.072-07:00Concert and Work<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">22 June 2015 Tiarei</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Anyways, I'm not sure if I already shared the story, but one of our amis, Titiura, will be baptised July 4th. Her date was given to her in a dream. We didn’t even fix it. No big deal. When you have a very spiritual people, Heavenly Father can accomplish his work in a very spiritual way. That just lets you know a little bit how things work here in Tahiti.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgIBIwe0o9jc7uWmzhWE3LnBhJftDQ65QBSLVDGlktlcET3EsJtIphRN5wNOJU4MDxKWFr_hZanwSuhmdnHhMRjfFIThz6Hn_9jZQXIOZRZMchFlbsaJKPAdOJUf4iKR6JPGbByEz5yRI/s1600/Stolen+Popcorn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgIBIwe0o9jc7uWmzhWE3LnBhJftDQ65QBSLVDGlktlcET3EsJtIphRN5wNOJU4MDxKWFr_hZanwSuhmdnHhMRjfFIThz6Hn_9jZQXIOZRZMchFlbsaJKPAdOJUf4iKR6JPGbByEz5yRI/s1600/Stolen+Popcorn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other news...I can site-read most hymns now on the piano. It’s been a little less than a year that I play every Sunday. It’s helped me improve a ton piano wise. Who knew that a little Chopin revival before leaving on my mission would have come in handy? Maybe I'll tie in a little engagement for all those reading this week. Break a habit and try something new. By that I mean, try to develop a new talent or skill. Who knows, maybe it will come in handy some day? ;)<br /><br />We did the first of a series of missionary concerts this week. IT was really nice to see everyone, and to sing for an enormous audience! There must have been over a 1000 people! The concerts were, nice and the testimonies born were great as well. My favorite was my buddy Elder Franco. He bore a killer testimony in Tahitian. We will be doing more concerts throughout July, and even next Sunday. Did someone say road trip?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This photo is my companion, Elder Houde, Elder Gouttin, and I. He's a French elder that came with us at the same time. We finish together. We stole a big bag of popcorn after one of the rehearsals and ate as much as we could!</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Today we went to a beach to play soccer. I cut my toe pretty badly on a shell. Tahiti problems.<br /><br />Love you all!<br /><br />Elder Molinari<br /><br /> </span></div>
Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141509 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179750000000009 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-1179049474548249382015-06-16T08:18:00.004-07:002015-06-16T08:24:20.218-07:00Sorry!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">15 June 2015 Tiarei</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />I realized last week I had sent photos, but not written a letter! The biggest thing that happened last week was Auguste's Baptism. It was awesome, and I absolutely love this guy. He's super funny, and is always cracking these dry jokes that just make me laugh so hard. Here’s the abridged version of his story. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />We can’t find people. Say prayer. Go to end of road that leads to nowhere. Find Auguste. Auguste accepts lessons. We find out Auguste had tons of contact with the church as an adolescent. Lessons start. 2 weeks go by. Spirit bears powerful witness of the truth of the restoration to Auguste. Baptism fixed for following week. Auguste lives all the commandments and aligns his life completely with the gospel. Baptism. Miracle. Then Sunday, he got the Aaronic priesthood, and since we had two of our investigators getting it at the same time, he received, and then immediately got to participate in giving it. What an incredible experience. Miracles happen, God prepares people for us, and if we ask we receive.<br /><br />We also have almost no P-day anymore because of concert rehearsals. Luckily the last one was today. As a treat president let us all watch “Meet the Mormons,” in French. It was awesome. My favorite story was the world war two bomber guy. <br /><br />This week we had a genealogy activity at the church where we talked about the booklet my Family and how to fill out ascendance sheets. We had 15 amis, I'd say it was a success. Well I know that the genealogy is mostly done on The Norwegian side, I’m excited to do it on the Italian side.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week I had been missing teaching principles of the Gospel Sunday (I’ve kind of picked up the habit). Well, Heavenly Father worked things out so I could teach, but not only that, he inspired a couple we teach to come to church. The husband is a rather skeptical guy, and we never really get to have a good conversation because he's always diverging during the lessons. Well, we only did one lesson with them but it was difficult. So I had said to Elder Houde, the next time we see them we need to teach the atonement, one of the most doctrinally satisfying topics we can teach. Well, Sunday it just so happened that the lesson I got to teach was my favorite, the atonement. By the end it was obvious that they were visibly touched by the spirit and authority of the lesson topic. Let’s see if there’s progress this week *wink*</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well...that’s about all I have to say that I can think of at the moment.<br /><br />Faaitoito outou<br /><br />Elder Molinari </span>Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141509 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179750000000009 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-3499546765563198342015-06-08T21:25:00.003-07:002015-06-08T21:36:17.345-07:00Bapteme<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8 June 2015 Tiarei</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So we had the baptism for Auguste this week! It was AWESOME! Auguste is the one in the middle. To the left is our ward mission leader named Frère Perry, and all the way to the left is Frère Gomis, a ward missionary.<br /><br /><br />Elder Houde is on the right end. I think I mentioned that he is from Montreal. His mother is French and his father is French Canadian and Native American. He already spoke French before coming here and he speaks English fluently. His French is like French French, but with an accent Canadian. It’s pretty cool!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Okay, have a nice week. I love you all.<br /><br />Io vi voglio bene!</span>Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141509 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179750000000009 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-29071639243498680552015-06-02T06:17:00.003-07:002015-06-02T06:23:53.310-07:00Emille's Baptism<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 June 2015 (my birthday) Tiarei</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had Emille's baptism this week, and it was really nice. IT was super early in the morning, but we still had a good turn out from the ward. He's been waiting for a long time to be able to be baptized. Emille's a papi we've been teaching for a few months. He hasn't missed a Sunday since we started. Finally he was able to be baptised this Saturday. <br /><br />It was awesome. <br /><br />We taught, contacted and did everything in Tahitian because he doesn't speak French. He's a spiritual powerhouse! When we first found him he didn’t talk very much, and had a difficult time understanding the gospel. But ever since we contacted him he hasn’t missed a Sunday, and we've just seen him open up like a flower these last few months. It was incredible to see his faith and determination. Somewhere along the lines the spirit bore witness to him of the truth, and after that he couldn’t be stopped.<br /><br />We found an enormous amount of people to teach this week, it was awesome. We also found a couple named Teiho and Vaitiare. I think I wrote about Teiho last week, and this week we saw his copine with him. She told us that the week before we had found Teiho, she had been praying that they would be led to the truth and apply the gospel in their lives. After that, we found Teiho, and he told us that normally he would never accept anyone like us, but he felt something push him to say yes. It was a really neat experience.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, not exactly. It was the first full week I passed with my new companion, Elder Houde. He's absolutely awesome, love the Elder to death. I now understand the difference between "compatible" and "complimentary". Most of my companionships were "compatible" companionships. But this one, like with Elder Kokona, we are "complimentary". Meaning we have differing and similar qualities, which create a very versatile and powerful team.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />We found an enormous amount of new investigators this week, and for this coming week. One of my favorite moments from this week was from a lesson with Teiho (tay -i-sho). We taught about the sealing power and the restoration. At the end we taught him how to pray and asked him to ask if what we had taught was true. HIs response was interesting. HE said something to the effect of, guys, I'm going to make this a whole lot simpler. I know something is true when I feel it. There is a certain feeling I get when I feel the spirit. When I was talking with you guys, I knew it was true, I had that feeling. We told him to pray anyways, but its always awesome when people remark the response during the lessons. That’s one other thing I like about my new companion. We feel the spirit almost exactly the same way, its super cool being companions with someone just as aware of the spirit during lessons and other situations. <br /><br />So my invitation for all of you is to try to get more connected with the spirit this week. Turn the volume down. Unplug. Try and really feel the peace that comes from living the gospel. Love you all!<br /><br />Elder Molinari</span><br />
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Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141509 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179750000000009 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-26585661158841765122015-05-19T05:50:00.000-07:002015-05-19T05:50:15.930-07:00It's So Late!<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">18 May 2015 Tiarei<br /><br />Sorry for the lateness of my letter! We were at Papeete for most of the day doing a rehearsal for a missionary concert we will be doing in June.<br /><br />My companion was transferred, and my new companion is Elder Houde! He's from Quebec, which relatively speaking, is not too far from New York. In fact, I think he's the Elder in the mission that lives the closest to me :) He's super awesome and a really hard worker; exactly what I wanted. We're gonna rock it here.<br /><br />As for things that happened this week, we had lots of cancelled lessons...I should know better than to call before hand and ask if it’s still good :|<br /><br />Turns out, the international driver’s permit is linked to my license, but I told Elder Houde he can drive, so no worries with the permit. <br /><br />Editor’s note: his driver’s license expires on his birthday, June 1. He will renew when he comes home.<br /><br />Oh! I forgot my camera, so I'll send pictures next week!<br /><br />Sorry, this letter was rather drab. But! I love you all, thank you for your eMails and support!<br /><br />Faaitoito<br /><br />Elder Molinari<br /><br /> </span><br /> Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141509 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179750000000009 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-44317441248109469862015-05-12T09:09:00.001-07:002015-05-12T09:09:59.713-07:00Rain<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It rained a lot this week. Big tropical rain storms, but its starting to be the season of wind and rain. The nights are getting cooler, sometimes you want a sweatshirt when there's a breeze.<br /><br />We participated in the challenge that our mission President gave us to find 15 new investigators in the last 3 weeks. Most were found in the last few days (we procrastinated a bit xP). Even with the procrastination, with mighty prayer and very wet socks and umbrellas we managed to find them all. Miracle.<br /><br />Transfer calls will be coming this week or the next, but I think I'm going to finish here. However, it would be nice to do one last excursion >.> <br /><br />The Skype call was nice. We'll see each other pretty soon though! Now all my skype calls and general conferences on my mission are finished!<br /><br />We were going to play beach soccer today but it didn't work out - they were putting new sand on the field...and of course it was on P-day :x<br /><br />We got to go to the temple 2 times in the last two weeks, once with the Elders and HItiaa, and another time with the Elders of Faaripo and Papenoo (perks of being the one with the car). It was really nice and a great recharge for the weeks to come. Going to the temple really gives us blessings of mental stamina. Its a good wind down session where we focus just on the plan of salvation. Exactly what I needed this week!<br /><br />This week we were teaching an ami named Hinerava. We just started the plan of Salvation lesson, which I love because its really during this lesson that our amis (friends) develop a testimony of the Book of Mormon and Jesus Christ. At the end of the lesson, which was a discussion based around 2 nephi 2, we asked if she had any questions or comments. At which she looked at us and said something to the effect of , "well that was really clear". Then she proceeded to tell us how clear the Book of Mormon is and the doctrine. Moments like that can make a week.<br /><br />Love you all! Faaitoito<br /><br />Elder Molinari</span></div>
Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141509 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179750000000009 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-36929654868304214492015-05-08T04:09:00.001-07:002015-05-08T04:09:43.401-07:00Another Week - just pictures<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141507000000004 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179770000000012 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-1083065349805315962015-04-27T19:05:00.002-07:002015-04-27T21:01:32.767-07:0021 Months<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">27 April 2015 Tiare<br /><br />I couldn't think of any other title. I hit the 21 month mark this Friday, but because of my extension I wont hit the 3 month left mark for another 2 weeks :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know Elder Johnson likes talking about the "bell lap", I'm on the last 200 meter sprint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week was great because we had the baptism of the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Rattinassamy family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It was a great service, President Bize gave the talk on the Gift of the Holy Ghost. I liked his experience. He was in a stake conference in a stadium somewhere in California and an apostle was presiding the conference. At the beginning the spirit told him,, "you better be prepared to bare your testimony". He reaction was, nooo, I'm on the other side of the stadium, he doesn't even know me. Then the second time he was prompted to prepare he started to think it might happen. The third time he was prompted he started putting together thoughts to share. Sure enough when the person who was conducting got up he said before we hear from Elder Nelson, he has asked that Pièrre Bize come and bare his testimony. Luckily he had listened and prepared the third time he was told!<br /><br />This week we have been out searching like crazy for new investigators. We did a lot of contacting. Which means lots of gross unattached dogs all around you. We didn't find anyone, but there are some potentials we can revisit.<br /><br />This morning I studied virtue. I learned quite a great deal. It is important to have a pure heart if we want to have the spiritual power necessary to work miracles. Also, by purifying our hearts and minds we qualify to "see god". I know that by searching after this attribute we can find an inner strength and serenity that comes from the increased presence of the Spirit. Virtue encapsulates purity, chastity, penitence, integrity, and spiritual receptivity. May we all pray for this divine attribute!<br /><br />Love you all, </span></div>
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Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141509 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179750000000009 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-77475274682173343252015-04-21T07:40:00.001-07:002015-04-21T18:51:55.144-07:00Another Week<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">20 April 2015 Tiare<br /><br /> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />There's a scripture that I really like in Doctrine and Covenants 42:14. It's actually become somewhat of a slogan for me. Anyways, I gave a training about Faith and I focused in this scripture and developed the phrase "prayer of Faith" with them. I started by quoting Preach my Gospel, "Faith is a principle of power". Now most of the time when we think of this we focus on the definition of power as a supernatural "force" that makes things happen. Well I was tired of that interpretation, and I took the other definition of power," The capacity to do something". Using that interpretation we developed the idea that faith is actually a principle of your capacity to do or accomplish something. Preach my gospel teaches us,<br /><br /> "Your faith will increase through diligent study, prayer, dedicated service, and obedience to the promptings of the <a href="http://lds.org/study/topics/holy-ghost?lang=eng">Holy Ghost</a> and the commandments."<br /><br />So our "capacity or power" to do something increases as we accomplish these works. The "something" is clear when your a missionary - missionary service- but this principle is applicable to all of us. If we want to be a more useful tool, a servant that has "a powerful faith" we need to do these things to increase our aptitudes. Increasing our confidence in our own abilities, as well as the Lord's, which Increases our faith.<br /><br />The Prayer of faith, is a prayer of action, a prayer that increases our capacities, spiritually and physically. A prayer which puts us more in tune and gives a a greater capacity to harness the spirit.<br /><br />Make a great week! Faaitoito<br /><br />Elder Molinari</span><br />
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Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141509 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179750000000009 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-29467874730920530052015-04-13T21:40:00.001-07:002015-04-13T21:40:14.587-07:00Miracle Baptism<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this week was started by a phone call Monday night from an old investigator saying he wanted to be baptised Saturday. Needless to say my companion and I were pretty shoqued. His name is Tim and he is AWESOME. So heres the story. His wife is a member, he has an adorable little daughter named Turena. His father in law just got baptised in february, and he's already taken the lessons. However he was really really into drugs. He felt he needed to go to general conference last week, went. An apostle said something, and the spirit testified to him he needed to be baptised. That very night he cut everything...everything...cold turkey. It was absolutely incredible. We had a lesson with him everyday this week, let me tell you he was practically vibrating during the lessons because of withdrawal, but he held on. We gave him a blessing, and he kept holding on. And he made it! What a miracle. HE is so different now. Ive never seen anything like it, Im still in shock. He invited all his friends and we had 13 investigators that came to the baptism. IT was amazing. I'll send some pictures.<br /><br />Other than that...It was a good week. We started teaching a family as well. They came to the baptism and want to be baptised too, sooo we'll see how that goes.<br /></span><div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Studies, studies. I was studying the priesthood in section 84 of the doctrine and covenants and the scripture we use all the time, verse 20, to talk about the power of the priesthood being manifested in the ordinances. Well, in French its a little more clear. I guess we can apply it to all priesthood ordinances, but he's really making reference to the ordinances of the Melchisedek priesthood in this scripture. In other words the confirmation and temple ordinances. So here're my thoughts for you all this week. I'm grateful that Jesus Christ restored the higher priesthood for us in these latter days. Without it we could not know as the verse 19 says, the mysteries of the kingdom, or even have a knowledge of God. As the verse 21 goes on to teach, without these ordinances we could not have a knowledge of the power of God on the earth. </span></div>
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Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141509 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179750000000009 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-90978801476655211952015-04-06T21:53:00.003-07:002015-04-06T21:53:46.723-07:00A Good Slow Week<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 April 2015 Tiare<br /><br />This week was a little slow. But that happens from time to time. It’s just that ALL our references were dead ends. Now that normally doesn’t happen, so I'm trying to find the lesson I was supposed to learn in all this. However we fixed a baptism for the 18th of April. Super excited for this baptism. It’s for a middle-aged French woman that we found recently, just two weeks ago (for privacy sake I’ll refrain from putting her name in).<br /><br />She was a self proclaimed atheist, but the Book of Mormon cured her. In fact, she had already read the entire Book of Mormon before we even started the lessons. And at the same time; had stopped smoking, drinking, coffee, tea. Pretty incredible! She is an author, so she understands well the lessons. She also knows a little about quantum physics, so I was able to respond to each one of her questions about God. Pretty incredible how Heavenly Father prepares people. Anyways, Bishop's wife, who is her support, gave her the triple combination when we started. its been a 2 weeks and she finished the doctrine et alliance. Let me give you an idea of the responses she gives when I probe for understanding. "In your opinion why was the fall a necessary element in the plan of salvation" response; "The fall created a need for an atonement and resurrection, without the fall there would have been no need for a savior." My beloved brethren and sisters let me tell you how refreshing it is to be teaching at such high a level. She understands everything. When we engaged her this week for the baptism her response was, "aller, on y va!" What an amazing person!<br /><br />Other than that our ward is just SUPER awesome. The bishop recently engaged everyone to do a questionnaire with their friends and family. In fact it’s a questionnaire we use when we go contacting so its not as bizarre going door to door. Well, all the ward leaders are doing it, and it’s just incredible. We've gotten tons of references and names to go visit, hopefully this week will be a little better. This ward is incredible; I’ll have no problems if I stay here till the end.<br /><br />Well I love you<br /><br />Oh gosh I forgot to write about conference. I like Saturday the best. Linda K Burton's talk was excellent. They stressed the family, and responded to a great many questions I had. Well, in fact all my questions were answered Saturday so..I was pleased. I think its important that we stress the equal and different roles of every member of the family. That extends to children as well; it is not solely the parent’s responsibility to assemble everyone for family home evening, family prayer, etc. Loved the Indian dancing talk as well it touched home.<br /><br />Love you all, have a great week!<br /><br />Elder Molinari<br /><br /> </span><br /> Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141509 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179750000000009 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-21890615803388054752015-03-31T09:45:00.000-07:002015-03-31T09:47:18.294-07:00Last days of March<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">30 March 2015 Tiare</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week went really well. The sector has finally reached a workable state. We taught twenty lessons this week, we were pretty busy. A good number of our new investigators (6 of our amis) came to church, which was ward conference. We had a great conference and bishop gave a great talk about missionary work. I had to play 5 piano songs, and I hadn’t really practiced at all that week. I was SOOOO nervous because the stake leadership was there and I was playing for the choir. Well, I prayed before every song, and I played SO well. I can definitely say that my hands were guided.<br /><br /> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Transfers happened but Elder Tematahotoa and I are staying together. I knew we would, we've got lots of work to do still! The photos I sent were from a zone meeting and an activity we did at a beach called le point venus at Mahina. We went and played beach soccer, barefoot, so my feet got nice and sanded. But I'm used to it so it didn’t really bother me. I'm pretty good at playing defense in soccer :)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Well this week just flew by. Not exactly sure where it went...The beginning of the week was just an average start. We had a leadership meeting with President Thursday. I really enjoyed the meeting. President shared a talk from President Monson from October 2012 general conference. It talked about an Elder that pictured every contact he had dressed in white and entering the baptismal covenant. IT was about not judging people, and that people change every day. I really liked the talk and his thoughts. He then shared a scripture in 2 Cor. 13:13, which is basically a summary of the Godhead. Sr. Bize talked about being healthy and doing exercise in the morning. She had furnished everyone with a little booklet of the program she is following. Then said its been really good and she's felt better every morning. To which President responded, "Cherrie, its only been 3 days that you follow this program." It was pretty funny. Those two are a riot sometimes. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday we organized an activity for the priesthood, it was an activity soccer. We left but it was raining. We played anyways, but the problem was the game turned into ice skating, not really soccer. IT was pretty funny watching everyone fall over and crash into each other. I was on the team with the Elders and High priests. We were against the young men. And guess what? We won! IT was pretty funny. I wish I had some pictures but it was raining too hard, and we were REALLY dirty :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br />Sunday we had most of our new investigators come to church. IT was really awesome. Bishops Wife, Sr. Teiva, had her French friend come to church as well. Its not the first time she has come, but this time she was really touched and we managed to fix a lesson with her!!!! Finally! We did a tour of the chapelle the 2nd hour with bishop and it was really nice.<br />We have a zone activity today. We are going to the beach and playing volleyball and soccer! <br /><br />Love you all, Orometua Molinari</span></span><br />
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<br />Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141507000000004 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179770000000012 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-83035830732634480482015-03-16T19:44:00.000-07:002015-03-17T05:09:21.805-07:00Our House<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was just one of those classic weeks of missionary work. I'm not too sure what to report on. We met some new people, starting teaching some new couples. As a zone leader we do a lot of training. I went on a split with the Elders at Papenoo. The Elder I was with is named Elder Sorensen. He is pretty awesome, we went contacting and found a couple to teach. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a huge rain storm Saturday night, the wind was making coconut trees lean to the side, it was pretty cool. The waves have been great lately, and my companion is just itching to go out surfing, or in Tahitian, "faahee". Love you all, and have a great week!<br /><br />I listened to a talk I really liked Its by Its about grace and the atonement. It had a lot of real great insights and thoughts. I invite you all to listen to it.<br /><br /> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[Editor's Notes: He didn't leave a reference where to find the talk he mentions. And the high winds are from a storm front that moved through the south pacific. A category 5 cyclone struck the island nation of Vanuatu where Elder Molinari's last companion, Elder Kokona, was from. Damage reports are still coming in, but it appears that </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">many homes were destroyed and much of the infrastructure as well. Officials estimate 90% of buildings sustained damage.]</span></div>
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Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comHa'apūpuni, French Polynesia-17.533240260936996 -149.38466548919678-17.537025260936996 -149.38970798919678 -17.529455260936995 -149.37962298919678tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-34952508769470393922015-03-10T09:35:00.000-07:002015-03-10T09:38:13.838-07:00A Real Letter<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9 March 2015 Tiare<br /><br />Sorry about last week, there were a lot of things going on and i didn't really get to write. Thanks for the letters you send to me, I enjoy reading them. I would love to give a report of the week's labors like Sister Molinari, but I just don't remember what happens to us during the week, its such a blur.<br /><br />Saturday we made pain de raisin with a member in the morning, and then went out contacting with him for about 2 hours. We had a couple of solid contacts, but nothing really fixed, we'll have to work on the follow up. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We found some potentials and shared a powerful moment with a couple. We just went to visit, but they wanted to do a lesson. The couple had recently lost there Father, so we talked for a while, then I felt inspired to read some passages from Alma 40. As soon as we started they burst into tears. There was a nice spirit there. <br /><br />Anyways apart from that just a lot of contacting and lessons. We lost an investigator who is awesome. She's going back to Ahe in the Tuamotus, but that's ok because we have missionaries there. <br /><br />Other than that not much to say. We met someone of the faith "Bahai". The second person I've met here from that religion...very interesting religion. We asked him where it comes from. The response was, "there's this verse in the bible where we wrote "cloud"." Yeah I still don't get it. But anyways his name is Roby and he's awesome. <br /><br />During my studies I set a new goal based around the scriptures. Well I haven't gotten there 100%, I feel like I have more and more Alma 17:3 moments So I added my next goal. Which comes from 3 Nephi 7:17-18. Absolutely love those 2 scriptures, Nephi is such a role model for me. The spirit is so strong and when we teach by the spirit we teach by his authority (1 Nephi10:22).<br /><br />May the spirit be with you all, and may Heavenly Father respond to your prayers!<br /><br />Love you all.<br /><br />Elder Molinari</span></div>
Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFrench Polynesia-17.679742 -149.40684299999998-33.141509 -170.06113999999997 -2.2179750000000009 -128.752546tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-12228519098509738862015-03-05T07:45:00.001-08:002015-03-05T07:56:47.763-08:002 Weeks, I Think?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 March 2015 Tiare<br /><br />I’ve been here 2 weeks, I think. Time doesn't make any sense for me anymore, especially when you’re in a car. I had everything organized in my head in Tautira, at least all the travel times, so it’s super weird in a car.<br /><br />Having the use of a car is an incredible blessing. And having regular meetings with the mission president is so awesome, I absolutely LOVE President Bize. He's super funny. In fact, he thinks very similar to the way I do. It’s pretty funny. My new area is awesome; it’s like being in Raiatea again. It’s a little village like place. I don’t know how to explain it. I’ll have to explain it after. My new companion is awesome. Best Tahitian I've been with; we see things exactly the same way. The ward is the best ward I've ever been in. It runs like it should, and the leaders are highly active in missionary work.<br /><br />[Editor’s Note: Elder Molinari has been working on trying to register for classes when he returns for the fall semester. So he has spent a little time searching for what he needs to do to end his deferment and enroll in classes for this fall.]<br /><br />One of my former companions, Elder Peterson, wanted to see if he could room with us for fall winter. I told him to contact you to try to work things out. Because we still have 2 spots right? So don’t be surprised if you get a call from Michael Peterson from California .He’s been home now for two weeks. <br /><br />This site was incredible helpful.<br /><br /><a href="https://onestop.byu.edu/returned-missionary-checklist">https://onestop.byu.edu/returned-missionary-checklist</a><br /><br />I just read that returning missionaries are automatically considered for all BYU scholarships. That takes a load off.<br /><br />It’s very difficult to get discouraged here everyone is just too friendly. I wanted to say this before but atheism hasn't really made it here, and probably won’t. Everyone believes in God. The same spirit of confusion and religious excitement in the time of Joseph Smith is still here. We can tract and have Bible and doctrinal discussions and sometimes clashes :) with enormous amounts of people. It’s an incredible experience serving here.<br /><br />My companion is playing ping pong with the young men while I am writing. It’s all good!<br /><br />I'm going to miss this atmosphere a TON. I am not looking forward to coming back to cold Americans.<br /><br />Umm...sorry I’m going to have to go. I ran out of time!<br /><br />Love you all, the Gospel is true!<br /><br />Elder Molinari<br /><br /> </span>Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comFaauanu, French Polynesia-17.5450873 -149.34837349999998-17.575366799999998 -149.388714 -17.5148078 -149.30803299999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-56273384289472280682015-02-24T07:04:00.004-08:002015-03-05T07:48:49.742-08:00Pictures, Pictures, Pictures!<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">23 February 2015 Tiare</span><br />
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Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comMaha'ena, French Polynesia-17.568838554203587 -149.33089256286621-17.576407554203588 -149.34097756286621 -17.561269554203587 -149.32080756286621tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407065668314776356.post-836426387857823892015-02-16T20:44:00.000-08:002015-02-16T20:45:10.481-08:00Transfers....<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">16 February 2015 Tautira<br /><br />Well I did get transferred this week, but it wasn't before Elder Kokona and I fixed another baptism. I'm gonna be honest, we rocked it here. Anyways, when you're unified with your companion its really easy to drown people in the spirit. So I got transferred to Tiarei in the zone Mahina. I'm also one of the Zone Leaders of Mahina, so I'm pretty excited for that - our zone's gonna kill it! I get transferred at around 12, and in our new sector....we have a car! Woooooooooo :) and apparently the house is air conditioned. What more could I ask for? Anyways, I'm pretty excited, but there is a good chance that it will be my last secteur, so I'm gonna make it a good one! My companion's name is Elder Tematahotoa, and he loves doing sports, so we'll get along just fine :)<br /><br />We have Julia's Baptism Friday, and since I'm still on Tahiti Elder Temata... and I are gonna drive down since its me baptising her. Pretty excited for that, it’s gonna be awesome. We were worried about Julia being able to stop smoking because she kept procrastinating and procrastinating. She was down to just 1-2 cigarettes a day, but it was still hard for her to not smoke. Then the day we had fixed for her to stop for good she said she had no more desire to smoke, it was completely gone; quite an amazing miracle for sure. She's awesome and she has a solid testimony of the Book of Mormon.<br /><br />I feel pretty comfortable handing over the secteur to Elder Webber. Elder Kokonas progressed beaucoup, and we've got tons of lessons, and baptisms fixed until April. It’s always nice to go into a sector that’s "living".<br /><br />This week in my studies I found Alma' law of restoration (see Alma 41, specifically Alma 41:15) in 1 Nephi 14. I was pretty happy since it seems to pop up everywhere, and I've kind of made it a hobby to search for it in all the prophet's writings.<br /><br />Anyways have a wonderful week! Thank you for all your letters! Love you all!<br /><br />Elder Molinari<br /><br />ps. Pictures next week I hope, If the computer in Tiarei works :)<br /><br />Editor’s Note: The following was added once he arrived at the new location, which is on the main island of Tahiti. It is on the northeast coast. <br /><br />Later on 16 February 2015 Tiarei (near Faauanu)<br /><br />Yes, I get to drive a car. The new house is still next to the ocean, and we have an air conditioner in our room. It’s a pretty nice house, it’s probably better than our old one. The bathroom is super nice as well. Our chapel only has one ward that meets in it...ours. Elder Kokona stays in Tautira. It’s probably better for him to stay a while in sectors because he is still a little lost. I really hope he and his new companion have a good time together. The elder that replaced me is named Elder Webber, he's really awesome and he already served with a Vanuatuan. Yeah, my sector is huge, but for once our ward actually works the way it’s supposed to. So I'm super excited. And now I get to go to the zone leader meetings with President Bize, sooooooo excited for those.</span>Kristoffer Molinarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16125501056010462411noreply@blogger.comTautira, French Polynesia-17.747222 -149.161111-17.762345 -149.181281 -17.732099 -149.140941