Top of the mornin' to ya,
Howdy ya'll. How are you all doing this fine and dandy Sunday evening? I hope that you all are doing really well and are all healthy. As for us here in Fiji, it is all the same. The weather has really changed from what it was last week. For the past 3 days, it has been raining non stop. Right now it isn't but it has rained so much. The first day it rained, it just poured. It rained so much that it raised the river we were by by 12 feet or more. Some or the roads were flooded and even Korovou town was flooded with 2 feet of water. This lasted for like 4 hours then went down. It was a pretty bad storm. Let's hope there is not a hurricane coming in.
I don't think that I told you last week but my companion, Elder Bogaert, has been transferred to Navatuyaba and I have a new companion! He is from Nevada. His name is Elder 'Ita. He is 18 years old and he has only been on his mission for about 4 months. I am his second companion in Fiji so I am his follow-up trainer. I have another daughter to call my own.
As for the week, we did not have too much happen. We were really busy with transfers and we were out of our area for about half the week. I was able to go on splits with a couple of elders from my intake and we cannot believe how fast our missions have gone by. It seems just like the other day we were in the MTC learning Fijian and now we know it pretty good and are all about to return home. It is so weird to think about.
We were able to have 3 people attend church this week. We are still working with a couple people to get baptismal dates but the one we have set is doing really good. We found out something this week that he is going to have to do before he gets baptized. He and his wife need to get married. So we are going to find a way this week to get this moving along so he can be baptized on his planed date for December 28th. But this week we were able to see him 3 times and teach him a few lessons. We have had some really good lessons with him. He seems that he already knows most of the stuff but we just need to testify to him the importance of following it. But he is progressing really well and cannot wait until his baptism.
We are hoping by the end of this week that we will have at most 5 baptismal dates and hoping to have at least 3. I really want to go out in a bang to help me stay focused on my mission.
We have really tried to focus on the members this week also. By my own feelings, missionary work is just so much easier when we work with the members. We have asked every member that we see if they know anyone that we could see. By doing so, we were able to get 3 referrals that we are going to see this next coming week. I know that working with the members is the way to go and it just makes everything so much easier. I give thanks to all the members that we have worked around and all the help that they have given us. I am so grateful for them.
We also tried through our own efforts to talk to as many people as we could. It was fun because we were able to meet lots of different people but it did not turn out to be the most effective.
Well, I don't really have too many stories this week, but It has been really good. That's pretty much all I can think of. It was just a typical week here in Fiji.
No comments:
Post a Comment