I feel pretty, oh so PRETTY

Hello, Talofa and Kia Ora from New Zealand!!!

Sorry I didn't have anything last week, we had a ZONE p-day and things were super busy so we didn't get a chance to email. But here's the rundown of the past week.

Riding in the car with Irvines

Lunch at the flat

Monday- Zone Devotional sharing our thoughts and feelings on Christ-like attributes. I had Virtue and Knowledge. I had the impression to use Alma 46. King Moroni and the Title of Liberty. A great story illustrating who Christ is and how virtuous we need to be when Satan stares us in the face. I bore my testimony that if we know who Christ is we should not be ashamed of who is and what he is capable of. We had Zone P-day. It was so fun! We had a bunch of different relays. Some really fun games.

THE ZONE....P-day games!!! What a blast

Tuesday- No District Meeting! We worked all day and had a cool miracle in this morning. Having received a referral from the Busby Family, we felt impressed to go and make contact. We ended up meeting with Mary and Matthew (a brother and sister) and had a powerful lesson concerning the Restoration. We invited them to read the Book of Mormon and to pray.  I said "There's many misconceptions about the Church. But what are you going to believe? Internet websites or God? That's why we invite people to pray to know if these things are true." He later said Okay, I understand I want to find out more. To conclude our lesson Matthew and I said a Prayer. I said mine first and then Matthew. Matthew said Lord, Father about fifty times in his prayer. Following this awesome lesson we had another lesson with Samuel, whom we hadn't seen for quite some time. We explained to him who God was (he had no belief in God) But we taught it in such a way that left him thinking. To finish the day we attended a funeral service for the Crichton Family. His mother had passed away. It was a reassuring feeling that the gospel IS true that families are eternal and will never END.

Elder Burns "wrapped up" for his BIRTHDAY

Wednesday- Companionship Study with Sister Kata and Kelly. We helped them practice teaching the Law of Chastity for one of their Investigators. Then we went to the Funeral of Fialupe Shoebridge. It was a great service! President Fitisemanu lightened the mood, by cracking some jokes about our weight, he was just kidding. Following the service, lunch was held at the Crichton's SOOO much food! We got a ride from President Fitisemanu to our next appointment with Leonda. Leonda (recent convert) has a learning disability so we have to teach very simply. Sister Irvine got him a "Book of Mormon Stories" book (much easier to read). He had read half the book when we met with him today! We were shocked but impressed and encourage him to keep going! Instead of using our bikes we rode in the car with the Irvines. We visited with Shirley (shared a Mormon Message with her about a loving father, Heavenly Father). Then off to Inamata's. Her father is in prison:( It's quite sad. I offered a prayer to close our meeting and her eyes were full of tears. Then before dinner we met with Ema. We also shared the same video with her. Elder Irvine is the best at talking with people! Elder Burns calls him "The Master." LONG DAY!!

Elder Minion, ha ha!

Thursday- Specialized Training. Oh how I love these trainings! The spirit is always so strong! We had much instruction about studies and making them effective, and well I have a lot of work to do! Then we had the awesome chance to have a new tool introduced. "HE IS THE GIFT". Look it up on lds.org, it is the best video! Then President Balli showed us Elder Holland's talk "Do you love me?" Then asked us to insert out names into it. It meant so much to say "Yea Lord, thou knowest I love thee." So much personal revelation was gained just from one inspired talk from a member of the Quorum of the Twelve! Coming off a powerful meeting makes you hungry so Elder Burns and I made a sweet lunch! (much better than ones in the past). Work continued and it was an inspiring day. We had a lot of chances to talk with everyone (TWE), caught up with Jordan (investigator) Gave Jane (recent convert) a blessing and went to the chapel for a Youth Cook-Off. 

Thanksgiving with the Busbys and Irvines

Friday- hmmmm, guess nothing really sticks out, but I'm sure it was a great day. Out here on the mission the days seem to just blend together.

Saturday- This morning during studies I tried to tackle a grizzly bear...oh I mean Elder Vave. Had a great morning talking to Lisa (investigator) she offered us some cheesecake, boysenberry? Her kids insisted that we should play with them so we threw around a frisbee until it was time for us to go. Also we did the same at another investigators house with kids jumping all over us. I talked to their mother Ana (Samoan lady) while Elder Burns was being attacked by these kids.

Sunday- Emergency drill in church! It was a blast and had heaps of fun, checking emergency packs (72 hour kits) Lunch with the Stake President. Kept working and had a blast talking to our 1st Counselor, Brother Haiane about his mission.What a great week, so much work and still so much FUN!!!

Picture with Stake President & Sister Broederlow and the Irvines

 

I love you all, til next time!