Sunday, October 1, 2017

Bye Bye Bourail

Last p-day was pretty normal. We did check out one of the beaches though and we watched the sunset which was awesome. Bourail is known for the best beaches on New Cal! 

Thursday we headed down to La Foa again. Had another super solid lesson with Andre. I've said this before but every lesson with have with him amazes me. We also had a super amazing chicken skewer lunch with the Goyetche family. After Frere Goyetche took us to visit tons of people he knows in La Foa. Not a whole lot of people were home unfortunately but it was cool anyways.

Friday I did my last French class because we found out transfers!! Elder Mariterangi and I got moved down to Vallee des Colons which is the heart of downtown Noumea. Literally the biggest possible change a missionary can have in New Cal. The new apartment is suuuper tiny. We are literally walking on our suitcases haha. Tons of people and tons of noise. To make it even better it's a whitewash. 

Saturday we had another lesson with Anna and her family out in the tribe. Solid as always. We are trying to prepare them to go to the temple one day. We also cleaned the house a little and I wrote my talk for sacrament meeting. Normally a stake high counselor was suppose to come up to Bourail to speak but he couldn't so the missionaries are filling in!

Sunday I lead the music again and gave my first real talk in French! Went really well. The branch was a little confused why I was leaving right after I got there haha. After church the Goyetche family made Me and Elder Mariteragi a little meal to send us off. Super nice of them! Sunday night the ZL's and the Kone elders came to the Bourail house in order to do the exchange. We had 7 Elders sleeping in one house haha. I little crowded I'd say. 

Monday morning we drove down to Noumea. Only about a 2 and a half hour car ride. We got to say goodbye to the departing missionaries then we were off to Vallee des Colons. When we got there the apartment was completely empty. It didn't even have a phone charger for our dead phone or an area book haha. We couldn't really do a whole lot. We are actually reopening the area because it was closed for a transfer. 

Tuesday we found out that the ZL's had our area book and our phone charger so all is well. We took a little tour of the area. Walked around La Place des Cocotiers which is basically the central park. Seems like a cool area. We also had our first district meeting with an entirely whitewashed district. All 4 companionships have been whitewashed lol. 

That's it for this week! Have a good General Conference everyone! We'll be watching it the week after to wait for French translation.  

Also the email title forcibly rhymes if you pronounce Bourail right haha. Sorry just had to throw that in there.

Avec amour,
Elder Burbank

Pics: -New district
-Farewell to the Goyetche Family and Andre (back left in the photo) who's getting baptized this Saturday. 
-Bourail sunsets
-Bourail "Cas" tribal huts

-Generic beach photo





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