Ni sa bula sia,
(Nee sa mb-ula see-a) How is everyone doing this week? I am glad that I have another opportunity to email you all and see how you all are doing. Also to tell you all a little bit about what has gone on with me during the past week. I hope that you all have had a good week this week and everyone stayed safe and sound. Also hope that everyone is doing good in school and is liking it.
The weather has changed a lot and is now more humid. I think that the weather is going to start to get hotter because we are coming into the summer season here. It is not like in America when it gets colder. The opposite. Everyone here in Labasa is still doing the same thing, cutting their sugar cane. I think that it is going to be like this for the next 3 to 4 months.
The people here are still the same, awesome! I am really liking it here and am going to dread it when I have to come home. They are just so nice and relaxed. It is so different from the lifestyle that I grew up in.
This week, we met some people in Savusavu that have been in Fiji for 7 months and they absolutely love it here. As we were walking through the town, two white people stopped us and introduced themselves. They said that they were from Salt Lake City, Utah. I was really amazed and I said that I was from Syracuse. They thought that was way cool. They said they were also members and always see the missionaries here. I was surprised. They also said that they just love it here in Fiji. They have been sailing around the world and Fiji is the best place they have been.
But as for our week this week, it was really good. We had a really good time. We had transfers this week but we are going to be staying here in Naduna. We are finally on a frequent 6 week transfer cycle. It used to be when ever we needed one, but now we are going to do it every 6 weeks. This transfer was a lot different from all of the previous ones we have had. President Layton has some different ideas. It seems like he is going to put leaders with the new missionaries. So, now once you are a leader, you are not always going to be. Wherever the Lord calls you, you go.
As for the work here in Naduna, it is going alright. We were able to have two nonmembers come to church this week. These two were the people that we ate bat with. We were also able to meet a couple new people that we have shared the Gospel with. The work is still going a bit slow but we are coping with it. We are working hard and trying to find those that are ready. The hardest thing about this area is the lack of houses and the distance they are away from the chapel. I think now with the First Presidency changing the way missionaries do missionary work, it is going to affect Naduna. Here in Vanua Levu, they are going to try to make "centers of strength." This means that they are thinking of combining the Labasa Branch and also the Naduna Branch into one to make it a center of strengh. It will be a lot better if we can have one really strong branch before we go out and make smaller branches that struggle. So, I don't quite know for sure when and if they are going to do this but it is in the plans for Naduna. With this in our minds, we are still staying positive. We have been called here and it is for a reason. We are here to touch someone and I guess that we have not done it yet.
This was pretty much the big news for us this week. We still are going to work hard.
This week we went to Savusavu for a Zone Training Meeting. I was able to finish up buying all of the things that I wanted to take home from my mission. I think now that I am going to start to buy some stuff for all of you. What are some things that you all want as a gift from Fiji?
I really cannot think about stuff to write anymore. I think that I am going to start to write more about what I have learned that what happened to me. I am going to change the way that I will write you all. I feel that every week is just the same week that's why I don't have to much to talk about.
I want to share something that really touched me this week. Christ tells us that the first commandment is to love God, and the second is like unto it, love thy neighbor as thyself. So I was thinking this week, What are some ways that I can love God and those that are around me more? What can I do more than what I am doing now? I was reading this week and it said the best way we can show our love to God and other is the way we love him. This really stuck out to me. This whole commandment lies on this simple word/action "love". You think about it, if you do not love God, why would you follow the commandments or the prophets voice. How are we any different from those that don't follow?
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