E mea oaoa te mahana noela

Jordan is doing great and learning so much. He sent some pictures with his email this week! Enjoy:

E mea oaoa te mahana noela
(I can't translate Tahitian, sorry! haha)

Iaorana tatou! It's been a great week, I hope you all had a great Christmas! This week, we had the baptism of Wendy, which was a very special experience. I had the opportunity to speak at her baptism and voice her confirmation and give the gift of the Holy Ghost, which I have never done before so I was nervous (especially to do it in French!) but it was really wonderful. Acts 8:14-17. One thing I've been thinking about a lot is the authority and power of the priesthood. My companions and I gave probably over 10 priesthood blessings this week. As missionaries and priesthood holders, we are called on almost everyday--and sometimes many times a day--to give blessings to those who are sick, injured, or in need of comfort. I have blessed people with illnesses that are often deadly to be fully healed and recovered, and they have been. It is really a trial of my faith to put my hands on someone's head and bless them with full health, but when the Spirit confirms to my mind that it's the right thing to say, I have to have enough faith to trust that God knows this person and their situation and needs better than I do, and He has a more complete picture of His power than I do. I know I don't understand everything that the priesthood entails, but I know that with greater personal purity and holiness comes greater power to accompany the authority that we are given by the laying on of hands by those who have been ordained by God down a direct line from Jesus Christ Himself. For all men who are of age, be worthy of the priesthood, and then live your life in such a way that you can have power behind it. That is what God expects of us and needs from us, and your family needs it as well. Doctrine & Covenants 84:19-21.

I love you all.

Elder King

Pictures from Christmas!:

Opening his Christmas package from home!

Christmas breakfast: grilled fish, something I don't recognize haha, French baguettes, 

of course Coke (it's their special drink there)

 and Poisson Cru (raw fish with veggies in coconut milk & lime juice)

They made Yule Log cakes for Jordan and the other Elders!!

Baptism:

Pretty sights around Moorea: