Kemuni galala?
Bula everyone!
Gotta love Fiji! It's been another fantastic week down
here. The weather is actually getting colder, which is pretty nice by my
standards. Last year when it was getting cold like this I was sweating to
death in Tuvalu, so I'm enjoying it. This week we worked really hard and
were able to get a lot of good things done. We also had zone conference.
Zone conference was great! It was themed on the
Atonement of Jesus Christ. President Layton gave a great training on the
doctrine of the Atonement that just brought the spirit so strong into the
meeting. It was a great day for everyone in our zone, and we were all
spiritually fed. Later on in the meeting Elder Lautogia and I were asked
to give a training on studying the Atonement which was fun! We tried to
get across that studying the Atonement is not so much about getting all the
details. Much like we (at least I) don't know how a computer works but I
know how to use it, we just need to learn how to use the Atonement in
order to see its importance and influence in our lives.
The work in our area has been going really well. We
were sad to find out that Liti moved to her village up in the interior of Fiji,
so we're not sure how she feels about baptism anymore, but her village is
technically still in our area so we're planning to go up and try to find her
sometime this week. Evia is really excited for her baptism on Saturday
and we were able to get it all planned out this week! Even though she
doesn't need to until after her baptism, she demanded that she is starting
right now to pay her tithing from her little baking business that she
has. She is almost finished reading 3 Nephi and just soaking up
everything we teach her! Misivilliame is doing great too! He is
still coming to church and going through the lessons. We have to teach
him in a lot of detail because he has a ton of questions. But you can
tell he is feeling the Spirit big time. He keeps telling us when he gets
baptized he's going to start bringing his family to church! Other than
those two we have a lot of new investigators who are just beginning the lessons
so we'll see who's interested and who's not this week.
Funny story of the week. We were teaching this family
and in the family is this girl who is like 30 yrs old and probably 8 months
pregnant (not married) sitting in. Like we usually do we introduced
ourselves and then I asked if they had any questions. She asked
"Kemuni galala?" which means "are you available?". My
companion was dying laughing while I had to explain that no missionaries are
not allowed to get married or anything! It was pretty awkward....
Loloma levu yani!
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