Well another great week in Nausori! I am really loving
my area and all the good work that is happening. A lot of great stuff
happened this week.
First of all, our investigators are progressing really well
in the gospel. Evia is loving the lessons and is preparing for her
baptism. Since she has been confined to her home for the past few years,
this is going to be a pretty big experience for her to go to the chapel and get
baptized! But she is excited and inviting all of her family to come and
attend. Also our friend Misiviliame has made the decision to be
baptized! We were way excited when he told us. He has been thinking
about it alot and decided to go for it. We also found out that he used to
be an Assemblies of God pastor when he was younger which was pretty crazy to
hear. We brought him to stake conference and he really enjoyed it all,
especially learning about the church government and all. It was a really
good experience for him. And last but not least Liti is still doing well
and working hard towards baptism. She had one little setback this week
when she got really mad about something and then ended up smoking one
cigarette. She was pretty sad when she told us but we talked about it and
were able to help her get back up and keep moving forward. I'm really
excited for all of these people who are willing to follow their Savior by being
baptized.
Another interesting family we are teaching is the Mata
family. They live by some of our members and invited us in when we were
leaving their house. The owners of the house our an older couple,
probably in their 70s and a few kids and grandkids. The grandpa is
Catholic and the grandmother is Methodist. It is pretty crazy teaching
them because they both could sit there and talk for hours and not get short of
breath, plus they always interrupt each other and argue with each other about
doctrine. For example yesterday the old man asked us about our doctrine
on the Trinity, and before we could explain those two were arguing with each
other whether Jesus and Heavenly Father were separate or the same; I didn't
really know how to handle it! But one thing they're both hooked on is our
church's family history program. They really want to learn the names of
their grandparents and great-grandparents, so we organized a time this week
when someone from our ward is going to take them to the Family History
Center. We'll see how that goes:)
We had stake conference this week for the Nausori
Stake. Elder Pearson and Elder Hamilton came from Australia to reorganize
the stake presidency. It was a really great meeting and I learned a ton
from both of their talks! I was a bit sad because our bishop got put as
2nd counselor in the new stake presidency because he has been such an awesome
bishop. But he will do great in his new assignment. After the
meeting everyone was standing around talking and then Elder Hamilton called me
over out of the crowd and told me he had a referral for me. Apparently
there was a newspaper reporter there covering the gathering and he invited her
to meet with the missionaries. We talked to her and have an appointment
for this week! After that Elder Pearson gave me a fist bump for getting
the referral. Bottom line: 1. Always do missionary work, even at large
Mormon gatherings. 2. General authorities are cool.
That was our week!
Love,
Elder Harris
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We got to drop off the
Tuvalu elders at the airport. Way jealous.
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