Bula!
It has been a great week! It has been pretty busy and
lots of fun times, hard times, spiritual times, and mostly just walking
times--all part of the missionary life which I have grown to love!
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! It was my
first one outside of America, but thankfully I got to celebrate! We were
invited to dinner by the Farpapau family on Thursday, and we got to go and eat
a Thanksgiving dinner with them. They are from an island called Rotuma
(little island way north of Fiji that speaks a different language), and they
also invited all their Rotuman family from all over Suva. Dinner was
great! No turkey, but I still ate a ton. Most people in Fiji don't
celebrate Thanksgiving, but I'm grateful that I was able to celebrate it with
this great family!
The work in Navua is moving along well! We are still
working with Raijeli's parents and Makaia and everyone else, but I'm starting
to realize how much of an impact the holidays are going to have on us.
This is Fiji's summer break for school, plus Christmas is coming up, so most
people are going to go back to their home village for the holidays. We've
already encountered a lot of this even though December hasn't started yet, but
we'll keep on keeping on I guess and just try to work our hardest with what we
have.
We went and did some service for a less-active member in our
ward this week. His name is Brother Dunn, and he is half Fijian and half
Indian, but he tells everyone that he is Irish because his
great-great-grandfather was Irish (that's how he got the name Dunn). He
and his two boys are some of the funniest people I have met, and all the
missionaries love them! For service we were supposed to help him fix his
fishing net so he could catch some fish, but then Fiji Time took over and he
just told us stories for 2 hours. We were able to chop some firewood for
him at the end though so it was good to go and serve him. He has been
coming back to church and now has a calling so we are really excited about
that!
Anyways, all is well down here! I have thought a lot
about gratitude this past week and have come to realize how blessed I am.
I can't even begin to count all the blessings that I have received in my
life. I have also realized that I need to be content with what I have and
not complain or anticipate happiness coming to me in a future time. I
just need to be happy with what I have right now! God is good and will
always bless us more than we can imagine!
Happy Thanksgiving and everyone have a great week.
Love,
Elder Harris
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