Oiau qori!
Talofa!
It's been a nice week. President Layton is currently
in Rotuma for a week=no meetings+lots of time to go and work in our area!
So yeah we have had a lot of time to go and work in our area
this week. It has been really fun, and we had a great time helping out
all of our investigators, less-actives and recent converts that we are
teaching!
It's been fun to see our recent converts after they were
baptized last week. They are super excited to members of the
Church! They all were confirmed yesterday and then Bruce and Joshua were
sustained to receive the Aaronic Priesthood. Bruce is excited to start
passing the sacrament and wants to start sharing the gospel with his
family. We have an appointment with his sister on Tuesday! I
remember the 1st counselor in our Bishopric blessed him during his confirmation
that he would "go on a mission and baptize lots of people."
Which I thought was amazing! He's 17 so he could go in a year or
two. Joshua is excited as well; we saw him at a church activity yesterday
evening with all of the old people doing their family history. We went
over to talk to him and he had already completed 4 generations of his family
tree! And Sister Rajendra is doing well and received an interview to
prepare to go and do baptisms for the dead. It's awesome to see the ward
help so much by welcoming and helping these converts!
We've been teaching quite a few investigators. First
off is Kesa, who is 25ish and half Fijian half Tongan. Her Tongan mom is
a member who has just started to come back to church after 40 years, and Kesa
is really keen to be baptized. The only problem is her husband. For
some reason he has no problem with Kesa taking lessons and going to church but
he won't let her be baptized. So we're praying that he will soften his
heart and say yes. We are also teaching a Tuvaluan guy named Salutu and
his half Fijian/half Palagi wife Alice. It's been fun teaching them since
he's from Tuvalu, and they're actually going back to Tuvalu in a month or two
because he just graduated uni. Their main concern is the Book of Mormon
so we've been going over that a lot lately.
I've actually been able to see heaps of Tuvaluans here in
Samabula! We go visit a recent convert family that I used to visit every
week, and I even saw Brother Niko in the mission office the other day! It
was so good to see him! He was telling me that his son got a chance to
meet the Queen of England!
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org.nz/5206668571515805021
And Sala Lausaveve, one of my favorite members from Tuvalu, just showed up at our sacrament meeting yesterday! It's pretty fun to see them and try to speak my broken Tuvaluan to them.
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org.nz/5206668571515805021
And Sala Lausaveve, one of my favorite members from Tuvalu, just showed up at our sacrament meeting yesterday! It's pretty fun to see them and try to speak my broken Tuvaluan to them.
Fiji is ecstatic about the Olympics and winning their first
gold medal in Sevens Rugby. Friday was chaos after the game with everyone
driving around beeping their horns and celebrating! A member fed us lunch
on Friday while the medal ceremony was on and we saw them receive their gold
medals from the Princess. It was so cool how they knelt and clapped when
they each received their medal; that is the custom here in Fiji when you
receive a gift from a chiefly person.
It's been a great week, looking forward to another one!
Love,
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