Well another week has gone by with a lot of work. We
had a lot of busy work this week but were also able to have a lot of success in
our area, so Elder Lautogia and I were pretty excited about that!
So on Wednesday we had another meeting with President and
Sister Layton and the Assistants. It was really good and we learned a
lot about keeping our individual areas productive by planning right and working
smart. It was really good insights and we tried to apply it all this week
and it worked! Always good to hear from our leaders. Plus one of
the senior couple sisters made chicken pot pie for lunch which was to die
for! Always a good time at the mission office. Right after that we
had exchanges with the Assistants. I took Elder Johnson to my area which
was way fun because I remember reading his blog before I came out. We had
a good day and taught quite a few people.
Thursday was really fun as well because we had the
opportunity to take Sister Layton and Sister Martin (whom I already know because
she and her husband visited us up in Tuvalu) and go and check all the elders
flats in our zone. Because we're so spread out in our zone we had a lot
of driving to do which was pretty entertaining because those two are
hilarious! Sister Layton is a pretty big football fan so she was catching
me up on all the news about BYU and such. Plus they brought cookies:)
And Friday we had exchanges again and I took around Elder
Stevens from the state of Washington. He is a pretty funny elder, and we
had a great time. He is pretty young in the mission but has way bomb
Fijian already! It was really good to get to know him. We saw a
family who is struggling right now to come to church because they can't afford
it. It was really hard to hear that from them and to see how much they
wanted to come to church. While we were sharing I felt impressed to tell
them that if they sacrificed the money that they had to come to church, the
Lord would take care of everything else. The mother thought about it for
a second and said, "Okay, we'll see you on Sunday." Well the
whole family came to church and it was awesome to see them show so much faith!
We are also teaching Sister Dalawa's daughter-in-law who
loves church and taking the lessons. The only problem is that she
actually isn't Sister Dalawa's daughter-in-law yet so we're working with them
on a wedding date as well as a baptismal date. But hopefully it will be
this month! Another investigator, this one a bit older, named Lusiana has
such a desire to be baptized but her husband isn't very happy about it so we're
trying to meet with him to see if he will give his permission. And
lastly we finally saw Bulou again last night with her husband (who is our ward
mission leader). She is still worried about reading the Book of Mormon,
but Elder Lautogia and I just showed her that there is nothing inside but the
teachings of Jesus Christ. One thing I like that Elder Lautogia does is
he tells them to flip to a random page in the book and look for the word Lord,
God, Christ, or Holy Ghost. He does that about 3 times and they can never
find one without those words. She said she would read it!
It's been really fun with Elder Lautogia. He's been
giving me some mean workouts to do in the morning! And he's probably
gonna teach me UFC fighting pretty time soon. We'll see how that goes.
Have a great week!
Loloma levulevu,
Elder Harris
 |
| Nausori Flat |
No comments:
Post a Comment