K if I thought French was hard I was sadly mistaken. French is like English to me, it's so easy, but man is Tahitian killing me. It's soon difficult to speak and especially to understand...But for the most part they speak French in Tahiti, so that's super relieving. We had a TRC with like the best Tahitian speaker in the world, who served his mission in 1960 or something like that. There was another TRC member who taught the same old guy for TRC when he was in the MTC, and he said he really probably is one of the best Tahitian speakers in the world, he didn't meet anyone on his mission that spoke it better, even the people that only spoke Tahitian. But one thing that old guy taught us was "If you speak Frech, the people will understand you, if you speak Tahitian, they will respect you." So even tho most people speak French, I'm going to do my best to master Tahitian as well so I can connect with the people.
On Sunday we had our devotional by the Nashville Tribute Band, which was pretty cool but they already came on the 24th of July and did the exact same devotional, so it was a little bit repetitive haha. But that's pretty much as much real music as we get, so it was nice. One of the members of our Branch President is Brother Markham, and he is like the most educated man in the scriptures I know. And also he's super rich and travels all over the world, but the coolest part is that he has a huge vineyard where he makes his own grape juice. On Sunday night he taught my district and one other about Jacob 5 and brought some grape juice, and holy crap that stuff is amazing. It's definitely the best grape juice I've had and probably one of the best drinks I've had period haha. But that was super cool there's a ton of really cool stuff in Jacob 5 even tho it's really hard to understand.
We had to say goodbye to the other district on Monday that came on the same day as us that are headed to DC north and a couple places in Africa, and man that was super hard. We have been super close, and their dorms were right next to us and stuff...But it made me super pumped to get out in the field. 9 weeks is so long, and I'm just ready to go haha.
On Tuesday we had a devotional by Elder Aceda of the 70, and that was super cool he is like the cutest peruvian old guy ever. He was super super nice and humble, and shared really cool experiences about his conversion story. His main message was to serve with ALL your heart, might, mind, and strength.
On Wednesday we did the orientation with all the new missionaries going to Africa, 21 total I think. I can't believe we are still the zone leaders, it's been so long haha. We;ll probably get unassigned next week I'm guessing, but we'll see. But it's great, the orientations are always super fun, but all the running around gets a little crazy with the Tahitian that we are missing.
Haha probably the funniest thing that happened this week was the other day someone sent Elder Dayton just a watermelon as a joke, so we spent like 15 minutes trying to open it. Then we didn't really have any spoons or anything, so we just kinda went crazy on it with our fingers haha it was like the best watermelon ever, pretty funny!
Jusqu'a prochain semaine!
Elder McQuiston
Me eating the best watermelon ever
My bed without sheets because it's so dang hot at night
Me downing Elder B's Sriracha sauce
A little bit of Tahitian
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