Happy Easter everyone! How's everything going? Tell Dad Happy
Birthday for me! Everything is going
really good here. This week went pretty good. For the most part we taught most
of our lessons planned. We still had a few that fell through because they were
not home. It is a lot different here on holidays than in America. It has been a
holiday for the past three days and today is a holiday too. Everything is closed.
I did not even know it I was going to be able to email today because we could
not find an email shop that was open. But luckily we found one.
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| This photo is for Kyle! |
It
has been raining the past week on and off. More on than off. Well I got your
packages and to my surprise, they were open. It said that they were damaged in
the travel here. But I do not believe that. So, tell me everything that you
sent to make sure I got it all.
My training gets over a week after Mother’s day. A week before that there is an intake of 15
new missionaries. I don’t know if they would do two big transfers within 2
weeks so we might be together until the end on June possibly. I don’t know when
for sure. And as for dinner, we have it every night! Yesterday when we went to
church, the April dinner chart was up. Then by the end of church it was
full! Ishibashi says that they fight over who is
going to feed us. We are going to be feed by Sister Diloi 4 times this week.
But in Nasinu 2nd ward, they only have dinner scheduled for 3 times this whole
month. So, we are really blessed to be feed every night.
{Answering to his brother’s question as to what is the 7’s?} What is up my brother! Well the 7's is Rugby.
Fiji has a really, really, really good team. They have been winning. Everyone
here was watching it. When they won the Hong Kong Cup, the whole city was
freaking out. There were fireworks and
screaming everywhere. It was really cool but we did not get to watch:-( But we knew they won.
We are planning on having a baptism this week on Sunday with a
girl named Eta. She is really excited to be baptized and is ready. She cannot
wait. We are going to see her tomorrow to have the last lesson and set up an
interview with the DL Elder Olsen. Other than her, we have a couple more
baptisms scheduled for the 14 of April. We are having Marika and Eva baptized
on this day. I think that they will be ready, we just need to teach Marika the
last lesson and Eva just needs her interview done. I think that her parents are
going to let her be baptized.
We have another set of investigators named Anna and Neitani.
They are brother and sister. Elder Ishibashi and Elder Smith were the first
ones to teach them. They have really come a long way. Anna was saying that she
hated to do anything that was spiritual like family devotionals, but now she is
the one that is wanting them to happen. They are really cool. They are really
fun to teach and they would be ready to be baptized if they would only come to
church. They always say that they are coming then, when Sunday rolls around,
they do not come. They constantly want us to tell them riddles and they always
tell us the same ones. It is really funny.
We do a lot of walking and teaching lessons. We don't really
have much time to OYM because we are always walking to lessons. But we are
still getting some new investigators. One of the new investigators we have found
is Moheni. She is a Hindi. One day we were walking down the street and she saw
us, so she came up to us and said that we have not come over yet. Ishibashi
said that they OYM'd her about 2 months ago with one of his other companions
and they never went back. She does not speak Fijian or English that well, only
Hindi. So it is a little hard teaching her. She says that she wants to get
closer to God and Jesus Christ. She really liked the idea of family and had
many questions pertaining to families. She has a son named Samson. So I think
that she will be really good. Her son is really cool. He is 5 years old. Whenever
we come over he gets this little toy car and just sits there and plays with it
rolling it back and forth, back and forth. It is really hard not to laugh
because it is so cute. She is a really good lady.
Well my time is about up so I want to let you know that I love
you all and miss you tons. Have a good week and I will talk to you next Sunday.
Love your Son/Brother,
Elder Grotepas
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