Well it's been another great week here in Fiji! Today
was made a public holiday by the Prime Minister, and the 7s team just flew in
yesterday, so there's a huge celebration going on in downtown Suva right
now. Not that we're going but just fyi.
This week is transfer week so Elder Condie is going home and
I will be getting a new companion. I'm going to miss Elder Condie, he's
been a great companion and has taught me a lot!
This week was a week of miracles! First miracle was
the fact that President Layton got off Rotuma. He was supposed to come
off on Wednesday, but didn't get here until Saturday. The runway there
isn't paved, so if it rains then the plane can't land, and it just happened to
start raining really hard this week and cancelled the flights twice! But
with some heavenly help there were two emergency planes sent on Saturday to
make up for the cancelled ones, and President was lucky enough to get a seat
and get back. We have transfers this week so it would have been chaos if
he hadn't got on.
All of our investigators are doing pretty well, just not
really well. Kesa is reading the Book of Mormon and working with her
husband to get permission to be baptized. Salutu and Alice are enjoying
the lessons and really considering everything we teach them. And a few
other investigators are coming along. But a lot of the week was just
alright because of a school break and a big festival in Suva all week; a lot of
people were gone.
So when church rolled around this last week we were just
praying that our investigators would come to church because we tried really
hard but all we got were lukewarm commitments. No one came, and that was
pretty disappointing. But then the miracle came! We saw these two
Asian guys show up late to sacrament meeting, and we figured they were members
visiting or something. But afterwards we saw Bishop talking to them and
him beckoning us over to meet them. We talked with them, and their names
were Andy and Aaron, and they are from China, like legit mainland China.
They've been in Fiji doing construction for a few years, and they told us that
their friend had invited them to church last week in Nadi, and then told them
to come here this week.
So we took them into our Gospel Principles class and tried
to see how much they knew.
They knew nothing. I think they recognized the word
Bible and Jesus and that's it! So we began with Chapter 1 focusing on our
Heavenly Father (we just had the rest of the class participate but really it
was focused on these two). They were so excited! After the lesson
they were looking through the book and saw a picture of Jesus Christ and kept
saying "Heavenly Father!" and pointing. We quickly explained to
them but it just shows how much they don't know. But we were amazed at
how amazing the Spirit is in directing those two to church yesterday.
Such a miracle and we are excited to see what will happen this week with them.
Love,
Elder Harris
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| Nice muddy days in the Settlements |
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| Nice sunset behind the temple |
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This
little food court is owned by this evangelical church haha
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