Bula!
It's been another fun week down here in the islands.
We had a majorly busy week here with a new group of missionaries coming in, an
old group leaving, and a bunch of missionaries getting shifted around.
There was plenty to do! We were expecting the new missionaries to come in
on Wednesday and everything was all prepared for them until we heard from the
office that they hadn't gotten on their flight because of visa problems.
So that ruined all of the plans and we had to readjust, but apparently church
headquarters didn't tell us that 2 of the missionaries HAD got on their flight,
and so they were wandering around the airport by themselves in Nadi for awhile
and actually got on the bus to Suva by themselves. But we found them so
it worked out okay. So that was a lot of fun. Then the rest came in
on thursday and we had a few orientation things to do which was all good and
fun. Interesting side note as we were watching the Saturday Afternoon
General Conference we saw at least 3 of those missionaries in the MTC choir
that sang! We're excited for them to be in the mission. We also had
to get all the missionaries leaving which was a big group of 10. Elder
Lautogia, one of my old companions was one that left so it was sad saying
goodbye to him. It was sure a busy week and stressful at times but all
part of the learning experience.
It was great to watch General Conference! I needed it
a lot because I felt so drained, and nothing fills you up spiritually like
listening to apostles and prophets. I don't know if I could pick a
favorite talk because I liked them all, but one that really stood out to me was
Elder Bednar's about coming to know the Lord. I love the fact that we can
come to know Jesus Christ by exercising faith in Him, following Him, serving
Him, and believing Him. Not only do we believe in Him, but believe that
his power is actually potent in our specific situations. All of the talks
were so simple and enlightening. As the world is increasing in darkness,
evil, and complexity, we need to follow President Monson's counsel of following
the plan of salvation. We don't have to make it complicated! It
was a great conference.
We've been struggling a bit with our investigators, but
we're still trying our best to help them out. Christine and Stephanie are
doing pretty good and we were able to share the Book of Mormon with them.
Christine owns a handicraft shop so we took some of the departing missionaries
there before they left. They've got a lot of good potential it's just
working through a few issues with them. We also have this Korean lady in
our ward who brought her friend and her kids to church and they want to be
baptized. The problem is that they don't live in our boundaries, but they
possibly may be moving to our boundaries, so we're trying to figure that
out. They don't speak very good English, but we are in luck that our
Fijian stake president so happened to adopt a Korean boy who is helping us
translate. How cool is that?
Loloma yani,
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