ISLAND LANGUAGES

French is the language of government/schools and Tahitian the language of the natives of French Polynesia.

ELDER COSBY'S ADDRESS

ELDER SETH LORENZO COSBY
Tahiti Papeete Mission
L'Eglise de Jesus-Christ des Saints des Derniers Jours,
Mission Mormone, BP93
(for pkgs add: Cours de L'Union Sacree)
Papeete Tahiti 98714
Polynesie Francaise
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Unto the Islands of the Sea

Send forth the elders of my church unto the nations which are afar off, unto the islands of the sea; send forth unto foreign lands; call upon all nations . . . -------------------------------------------Doctrine & Covenants 133:8
Bonjour! [bon-ZHOOR]:French-------------------------IaOrana! [ee-ah oh-RAH-na]:Tahitian-------------------------Hello!
Bienvenue! [bee-ahn-vuh-new]:French-----------------------Maeva! [mah-AY-vah]:Tahitian-----------------------Welcome!

11.10.10

YOU CAN READ ABOUT NEPHI BUT YOU CAN HANG OUT WITH TONY: Oct 11, 2010

Dear Family, 
This was a good week.  Elder Oldroyd and I will be getting a Tahitian companion Tuesday which is good.  I will be able to learn French and Tahitian better now.  

Our house has a lot of ants.  When we spray them with poison the whole colony comes out.  It is awesome.  So we kill all of them, but somehow there is like 7 colonies so far.  Also we had a random flying ant attack thing the last 2 days.   Out of nowhere a zillion flying ant bugs covered our entire sector for an hour each night.  Then they would disappear and then they would come back the next night.  They got in all my clothes.  As we would ride our bikes it was like it was raining with them bouncing off of our helmets.  That was exciting.  

Yesterday we had a wedding and then a baptism right after.  (That happens a lot here because alot of people just live together until we tell them not to.)   The wedding music was awesome.  I'm pretty sure that it was from the Mario Kart soundtrack. 

The other day we met Tony.  He is the coolest guy ever in the world.  We randomly found him while searching for a reference.  We see him at church but we'd never talked to him.   He invited us in to eat after an unsuccesful reference and I am convinced that he is the most righteous man on earth.   He told us that he was having a lot of trials and that he prayed to know why and God told him he couldn't go to the celestial kingdom unless he had trials.   Now that I write it out it's different, but when it came from him it was super powerful.  They were all super simple questions and super simple answers, but I just can't explain how awesome he is.   And after he would just kind of laugh and say cool right?  You can read about Nephi but you can hang out with Tony.
Love y'all,
Love Elder Cosby

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