Bula !
Man this was a crazy week, and we have a combined zone
activity today at the beach (no worries no swimming), so I'll just go through
this pretty quickly.
So the week started off pretty well, had a few good lessons,
especially with our investigator Bulou. She is the wife of the ward
mission leader, and has been AoG (Assemblies of God) for her whole life, but we convinced her to
take the lessons. We taught her the first lesson and she loved it!
All she could say was "This makes so much sense!". However she
was really scared of the Book of Mormon, and I mean scared to even touch
it. But we were able to explain that it is another witness of Christ and
finally got her to read Moroni 10:3-5. So the challenge is on! She's
willing to read and pray and we are pretty excited about it because of the
spirituality of the lesson.
On Wednesday we took a trip up to Saioko. Just last
transfer it was closed to missionaries because of a number of different things,
but we took a load of food up there because someone had given it to the mission
office for the branch. It is about a 2 hour drive from Nausori and a
pretty rough road (which was pretty fun in the truck!), and then a 20 minute
walk up a sweet hill (not as fun) to get to their chapel. It was one of
the places hit pretty hard by Winston that is still recovering and without
power. It was good to get them some more food and supplies to help them
out!
Thursday I went on an exchange with Elder Brooks who is just
finishing his training. He is a really ecstatic missionary from Australia
whom I had a ton of fun with. As part of his training it was the week
where he leads everything, so I just got to kick back and follow him
around. It was a ton of fun.
Friday we had a bunch of interviews to take care of, then we
had an exchange with the Assistants in Samabula where we stayed the night.
Saturday we woke up at 5 to go to our ward temple trip, but
we didn't end up getting to go and do baptisms because none of our recent
converts showed up! But afterwards around 9 the bus which the ward rented
went to the chapel and we were able to have our baptism for Sister Dalawa and
Delagi! It was such a nice baptism and good to see Sister Dalawa finally
enter the waters of baptism and be united with her family. And I was so
proud of Delagi! Even though she was super scared last time she was way
brave this time and had no trouble at all when she was baptized! It was
an awesome moment.
On Sunday we had church in Nausori and then we were able to
go and see the baptism in Korovou for the Turavu family! Emma is probably
going to get baptized in a week or two but all the kids were baptized: Laisa,
Jennifer, and Joji. The Korovou elders got stuck in Levuka on an exchange
and the boats were all cancelled, so we went and watched the baptism for
them. It was such a cool moment and a tender mercy for me to baptize all
of them after finding and teaching them back in Navua!
It has been so busy this week but also really exciting!
Despite all the hardships we face, I like a quote that President Eyring told us
during the temple rededication: "The Lord is at the helm, and I am not the
least bit concerned."
Loloma levu
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| Baptism of Laisa, Jennifer, and Joji |
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| Hike up to Saioko |
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