This week has been fantastic! Like I mentioned earlier, Labasa is hot. And me and Elder Christensen did LOTS of walking this week. Some days I think I'm going to melt, but it's all worth it ay. I love it here. Fiji helps you appreciate the little things like Air Con!
We did lots of work this week out in Namara which is one of the poorer areas in Labasa. It's amazing to see how happy people can be when they only have, sometimes, barely enough to survive. Especially as they except Christ into their lives.
Finding that faith in Jesus Christ is so important, and with a lot of people, especially the Hindu people we work with, it can be really hard. One amazing way we saw one lady strengthen her testimony of Jesus Christ this week was through a blessing we were able to give. We were down at a house about a 30 minutes drive from town and a lady said she needed a blessing because her knee was really hurting her and she could barely walk. We gave her one and right after we finished she was able to walk perfectly and she wouldn't stop talking about how she had been healed. It was a really cool experience.
We get our new Mission President this week, President Higgins, and we are all really excited to meet him. Up here in the north we won't be able to for another 4 weeks, but still it's exciting. President Layton is amazing and it's going to be hard to see him go!
The language is coming. I'm to the point now where I feel like I can understand almost everything in Hindi. The hard part is trying to put exactly what I want to say into words.
This week we went on exchanges with the zone leaders and I got to go with Elder Chugg. He's the man!! We were here in Labasa and most of our lessons were in all hindi and so I had to do all of it and then translate for Elder Chugg a little so that they could understand. It felt really good and I feel like it was a huge milestone in the language even though I have a long way to go!
If I've never mentioned it before, our flat is infested with mice!! Like so many! A couple week ago when the Nakawakawa Elders were here for district meeting, me and Elder Hammon got a bucket, a stick, and some floss. We caught like 4 in 30 minutes. It's pretty crazy, but also really annoying and gross. And we have been kerekereing mouse traps for a while now and finally we got some this week. They are the sticky kind, and the first day we set them out we caught 12!! I'll put a picture below of us catching 4 during the one hour we were doing planning.
We have multiple investigators getting really close to baptism and it's exciting. All of the ones we have with baptismal dates I have been able to be with since the very first lesson and I feel so blessed to be a part of the change in their lives. Watching someone accept Christ into their lives is the best feeling in the world. The gospel of Jesus Christ is such an amazing thing.
Yesterday I got a knife thrown at me so that was cool. Don't worry he was 6 years old and didn't have a very strong arm.
Oh yeah so I mentioned last week how I lost all my pictures. Well I wasn't sure if I really had or not, but now it's official. I lost all of my pictures and videos other than the ones I've sent home so that was depressing.
Also random side note, but Elder Christensen is DL and so I get to be there when he has to deal with disobedience. At the moment there are two Elders who want to leave their area and travel a full day to get to another island called Rabi way out of the way. It's crazy how much freedom there is here in Fiji because it's so spread out, but it's also so sad to see missionaries try and take advantage of it.
Even though there is crazy stuff going on, the Fiji Suva Mission is the best mission in the entire world!! I love it
Bhagvan aaplog ke ashirvaad dena ee hafta me.
Hum aaplog ke bhout pyar khare hei.
Ee gir jar kar saache hei.
Elda Hess
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