Bula vinaka!
This year is starting off great! Our theme for the
mission this year is "A Year of Miracles," and that is exactly what
is going on! The Lord has prepared so many great people down here; we're
just trying to keep up!
First off we have the amazing Waqbaca family who is loving
the fact that they have found the restored gospel. We visited them a few
times this week and everything is looking great for them to be baptized in two
weeks time. They love the gospel and reading the Book of Mormon and
having us over! Our last visit, at the end they said they had a surprise
for us, and all the kids went around and bore their testimonies to us without
us teaching them at all! They're great. The only small problem we
had was at church when they came up to the front of the chapel 5 minutes before
sacrament was to start, pulled out a triangle and started a somewhat aggresive
beat, and started singing a song (they were 7th day before so maybe that's the
norm?). I thought it was great! But we'll probably have to talk to
them about getting permission before their next musical number:)
Api, our other investigator, is doing really good and
excited to be baptized in a few weeks time. She is loving the Book of
Mormon and the lessons. We were teaching her the Plan of Salvation, and it
didn't seem like she was getting it too well after we spent a lot of time
explaining it. We gave her a pamphlet, and then came back a few days
later to review, and she repeated to us every single point of the lesson in
detail! Let's just say we're going to make sure and use all of the
pamphlets with her.
As I was talking about last week, our investigator Barney
just got back from prison in Australia. And now he is so humble and ready
to change his life. He said he'll do whatever it takes to be baptized and
change his life around! We're taking it slowly with him on the lessons,
because after 15 years in prison he is a bit awkward socially, but he is doing
really good and enjoying the lessons and church.
This week we had a zone meeting which was great! It
got me super pumped for the work! I was assigned to give an insight on
attitude, which was way fun. I had my district act out a bunch of
"bad attitudes" which were basically lazy missionaries whose
attitudes ruined the work. I talked a bit about how hope is the inner
driving force for a good attitude, not the word hope we normally use but the
one they talk about in the scriptures. Hope is a trust that Heavenly
Father will deliver his promised blessings to us, and our attitude towards
obedience and hard work is a good measuring tool whether we have hope or
not. Hopefully it helped everyone keep a good attitude! If nothing
else it got me excited!
On a more random note, Fiji is in watermelon season.
This may sound amazing to you all back in the freezing north, but I'm getting
watermeloned out. We get it at like every appointment. If anybody
wants some I'll send you some.
Elder Giacalone is doing wonderful in only his 4th week in
the field. I think I might just let him start teaching all the lessons
and I'll sit back and relax. Vacegu mada.
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Harris
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