Bula re!
Wow I can't believe how fast this has gone by. We have
been pretty busy and been doing a lot of travelling and meetings this week, but
it has been fun.
We started off the week just working super hard and fast in
our area, because we were only there 3 days - Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday. We were able to still see a lot of people and get them going
on their road to baptism and confirmation.
Our top investigators here in
Samabula are Bruce and Sister Rajendra. Bruce is a 17 year old kid, a
referral from his returned missionary sister, and he has been taking lessons
and coming to church for a few weeks now. His baptism is scheduled for
the beginning of August so we are super excited for him about that. He is
enjoying church and is super smart in remembering the things we teach
him. We always teach him at the LDS Primary School (elementary school for
all you Americans) which also doubles as our chapel, so it works out pretty
well. Sister Rajendra is an Indian lady we are teaching whose husband is
a member. She has been an investigator for a while with Elder Condie, and
right before I got here she finally decided to be baptized. She will be
baptized in August as well, and each lesson we have had with her has been very
spiritual.
I'm still loving the diversity here in Samabula ward. We
had dinner with a Kiribati family on Monday, a half French/half New Caledonian
family on Tuesday, and a half Fijian/half American family on Wednesday.
All super fun!
We had a few meetings this week called a Leadership Training
for the leaders in our mission. We had one on Wednesday for all the Suva
areas, and then we flew up to Savusavu on the island of Vanua Levu on Thursday
for some exchanges and the Leadership Training on Saturday. We have some
awesome leaders in the Fiji Suva Mission! We learned a lot from President
Layton and Sister Layton and hopefully can use that in our individual
positions. I think the main thing I learned was that as long as we are
following Christ's example we don't have to worry about all the little aspects
of being a leader because he was the perfect leader.
While in Savusavu I
was able to go on exchanges with both the zone leaders there. Elder Amai
is from my intake so we had a lot of fun together getting the work done and
reminiscing on the MTC in between lessons. And Elder Willioughby is from
none other than Delta, Utah so we had a lot in common. Savusavu is
beautiful and a great place to be a missionary!
After the meetings we stayed in Savusavu for church on
Sunday which was a big conference for the North Islands getting a new district
presidency. President Layton is over that district, so he spoke as well
which was really great. Sister Layton also spoke and spoke about pioneers
since it was the 24th of July. That afternoon we traveled back to Suva,
but we had to fly to Nadi first for some reason. So we did a little
circle all around Fiji in a few hours. Anyways, it was a fun and eventful
week!
Love,
Elder Harris
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| In the Savusavu Airport |
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| This is the little plane we rode in up to Savusavu. It fit about 15 people. |
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