Sunday, July 9, 2017

July 10, 2017

Kaise humaar pariwaar aur saithi logan! Hum applog ke bhout pyar khare he!

I can't believe this transfer is already over half way!! 

Time is going so fast!!

This week was great!! Ulaiyasi got baptized which was amazing! Such a great experience. He is the man and I am so happy for him! We were able to baptize him before church, and then performed his confirmation just 30 minutes later in Sacrament Meeting and so it worked out way good. Sometimes it takes a week or more for them to be confirmed. There is a picture below right before the baptism!

This week was also really hard though. Our investigator George, the one I always talk about in my emails, passed away on Friday. We had been with him just 2 days earlier in a lesson and he seems totally fine, but he ended up having a stroke and died just a couple hours after. I was really close with him and so that's been really hard for me. 

Also, this is crazy, another man who lives in the same house as George died. We weren't teaching him, but he is a young guys who we would say hi to almost everytime we were up there in Siberia. He was part of an accident at the train tracks and was run over! The exact same day George passed away. 

So this week has been hard for us in a lot of ways also, but I am just so glad that we have the knowledge of The Plan of Salvation.  

We gave Pria a blessing this week after one of our lessons and she told us how she felt healed right as we started praying. I love the priesthood power. It really strengthened her testimony. 

In a lesson this week in hindi we were mentioning how we are both Janam(young), but instead of saying "young" we said we are both Jaram which means "bad"! So that was funny!

We went on exchanges again this week with the Seqaqa Elders, and I stayed here in Labasa with Elder Fui. He just barely arrived here in Fiji 3 weeks ago! Most the lessons were in all hindi and so it was way good practice for me with the language. It felt good. 

Oh random side note, our flat is haunted. We hear the light switch on and off during the middle of the night and the freezer door opens and closes. Pretty scary! 

Okay we are going on a hike right now as a district and so I've got to go! So sorry there are hardly any details!

I love being a missionary! Like so, so much. It is such a blessing to be able to wear the name of Jesus Christ on my shirt every day! I'm so thankful for the knowledge we have of the true gospel! 

I love you all. 

Sorry if I didn't have time to reply to you if you emailed me! 

Thanks for all the love and support! 

Have a great week!



-- 
Elda Hess


Pictures:
1. The river we showered in last week
2. Enia 
3. Burning sugar cane and so we couldn't see while driving for like 300 yards
4&5. Ulaiyasi's baptism














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