Tahiti #2

Today was Sunday.  We knew there was a Mormon Church in the tiny town of Pao Pao Moorea so we went for a walk  Saturday night looking for it.  We quickly found it on the main road right after a bend in the road about 2 minutes walk from our hotel. 

9AM we walked in and were warmly welcomed in French.  They gave us a hand written paper with the song book page numbers listed so we wouldn’t get lost.  Songs were sung in French and then Tahitian.  The sacrament meeting overflowed to the hallway where chairs were neatly lined up in rows but we were ushered into the main building to sit next to another visiting couple from Denver.  The wife was a member and husband wasn’t.

After the fast and Testimony meeting the other couple went home and I requested to go to Primary so Kay tagged along.  First I went to the 4/5 year old class and then to Sharing time.  In between meetings I gave the Primary President 2 sets of 6 piece felt nativities and she had the children put the pieces on the tree in the corner.  When the children were singing she asked if I could take letters they wrote to  President Monson last week to him. I said sure and offered to take a picture of the Primary.  I made sure they knew I would not be able to see President Monson but I would make sure they got to him.  The Primary President (left front) got the nursery children for the picture too.

That evening  at 4:45PM the Primary President knocked on our door with her mother-in-law who works at our hotel and asked if we would like a ride to the First Presidency Christmas devotional on the other side of the island (15 minutes).  We said sure and enjoyed a few words we heard in English… Grinch, I know my Redeemer lives…  Never have we been so thankful for  the music which is literally half of the meeting.  We enjoyed the car ride.  The primary President took English in school and lived for 6 months in Hawaii a long time ago.  A member that just went through the temple last week for the first time invited us to have a tour of a pineapple plantation on Tuesday.  See were blessed to be able to go to church.