It has been a very fantastic couple of weeks!
Afaa/MLC:
Last Wednesday I didn't email cause we had MLC. We thought it
wasn't gonna happen cause the day before, it was raining a TON, then we get the
texts from President basically saying get to the churches as soon as you can,
theres another storm coming. Not gonna lie we got pretty dang excited as the
memories from last Afaa came flooding back. We have had SO many memories
at the Ha'ateiho church building. So we got to the church building with our
whole district and as the night went on, the less it was raining, we didn't
think anything was going to happen. But when we woke up in the morning, that's
when Hurricane "Keni" started to hit, but it was nothing compared to
Gita. Almost got MLC cancelled but then President told us to start making our
way down to Liahona. Good thing it's like a 8 minute drive to the mission house.
MLC was verry short compared to others. President talked a
lot about faith, did some role plays with the APs, then like 2 hours of just
different missionaries testimonies it seemed. I got to talk about conference
and what I learned from it. Way fun!
Sela:
Sellaaa is our 1 investigator so far in our new ward! We had
a very terrible lesson with her this last week. She did not seem like she
wanted to be there and was very resistant to what we were trying to teach, she
was able to come to church on Sunday and we taught her there. Luckily she asked
us to re-teach what we had already shared, and this time went much better. It
was great seeing her face looking at the whole Plan of Salvation mapped out in
front of her and seeing her wonder and excitement at having this new knowledge
that couldn't be found anywhere else. We are hoping she will get baptized next
week :)
*Liongi*:
A miracle happened this week that absolutely humbled me to
the core.. after 5 months of teaching and 2 baptism invites.. Liongi has
committed to baptism! I've mentioned this investigator before, shes the one from
Vava'u who was having cool experiences with the BoM and has come to church
almost every week for the last 5 months. On Monday we had planned to visit her
at some point, but through a number of 'coincidences' we ended up there
first thing after morning fafanga. We got there and we were all talking about
how she was planning on leaving the NEXT day(Tuesday) to Vava'u. I don't want to
say that we had given up on her, but we had pretty much accepted that she will
be going back home and this wasnt the time for her to be baptized. The main
purpose for our visit was just to share a thought from the BoM with her, and
help prepare her to go back home with the hope she would continue talking with
the missionaries in Vava'u. As I was opening my BoM to share a scripture, E
Satuala leans over and whispers, "Lets invite her again to baptism" I
looked at him like he was crazy. He was being much more responsive to the
Spirit and less stubborn then I was which I am so grateful for. During the
prayer, I had a prompting to change the verse I was going to share, followed
it, and we started our conversation with her. As we were talking, Satuala asked
her what her actual thoughts were about Joseph Smith. For some reason, she
didn't answer the question straight on, but started going off about some other
topic, but ended up talking about the Celestial Room in the Temple and how her
less active brother had said something about it. We didn't know why she said
that, but the opportunity was there, and the prompting was followed, my
companion testified about temples and how much we hope for her to be able to go
in someday, and then dropped the 3rd invite for baptism.. she started to
laugh (that's what she always does) and then we literally watched the Spirit
soften her heart and help her with her answer as she started to ramble off
about her family and reasons not to. After a moment of silence, she said very
quitely, "Oku ou tui te u talitali lelei homou fakaafe.." "I
will accept your invitation.." At that moment it didn't fully hit me what
had happened. Everyone started to cry and was silent for a whole minute or 2.
We committed her to this Saturday. Her boat will be delayed so she can be
baptized this week :) So so so so happy!
Ako Hivas:
We may or may not be practicing a missionary song that will
be in Kolipokis(Grobergs) new movie..... I'ma be famous!!!
We've got Zone Conference again this next week! So much
to plan for! I'm loving it!!!
This is Chevy, I could never eat him
Just me
Literally half a pig
Look who's watching
No big deal
P-day pig
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