We started out by having a Zone Qito!! Which means we get to play rugby with the whole zone! We only get to be with the whole zone once every 6 weeks so we all really look forward to that!
President Higgins is the man!! He honestly is so cool! His trainings in Zone Conference were so eye opening! It was all about finding those people who are prepared! And relying on the spirit to know who they are. It was great! I feel super unlifted about finding new investigators, which is something I definitely needed. Also President Higgins has changed the rule on shoes and so now we can wear open toed shoes!! So awesome!
Zone Conference is such a spiritual boost and really motivated me to keep working to become the best servant of the Lord that I can be.
The interview with President was great! Talked about Motorcycles, fishing, snowboarding, surfing, and mission stuff too obviously! He is such a devoted deciple of Jesus Christ and is so smart, and he is going to do so much good for the mission!! He is very serious about the work and the Fiji Suva Mission is blessed to have him!
Elda Mumford went home this week!! That was so hard to see him go! He was the first one I went out with the first night I got here, then was my first Zone Leader and came up to the north with me, and after that he was AP for 2 1/2 transfers. He's probably the missionary I'm closest with out here and so it was really hard to see him go!!
We had a great day of work on Friday. We were able to get out early and do lots of finding! Along with a couple great lessons with some of our progressing investigators. We have 6 baptismal dates right now and with their dates coming up there is lots of work to be doing with them! It's so amazing to be a missionary!
This Saturday me and Elda Christensen got so sick. We had some bad fish and so neither of us left our bed all day Saturday unless it was to go to the bathroom to throw up. We are all good now and our immune systems are stronger now because of it:)
The hindi language this week has felt good! I've been trying to speak it as much as I can with Elder Christensen. Sometimes it's easy for me to forget to be thinking about the language throughout the day when I am just with him because we are both from the same place and most people speak in fijian, but as I have been having conversations with him in Hindi it's helped a lot. Especially with my vocab of day to day things and small talk. I feel pretty confident about talking about gospel things, but where I see I could improve would be my day to day conversations!
I have felt the Spirit lots this week. I really feel the Lord's guidance in the work!
I am reading right now in 3 Nephi and I have received many answers to questions I've had for a while!
In a lesson with Lote this week we read Alma 42 where Alma is talking to his son Corianton but instead of where it says "my son" we put her name in there. It was really powerful! She said it helped her a lot! We got this idea from a talk given by Joaquin Costa in the last General Conference. He actually came to the MTC when I was there!
Okay bye! Love you all!
Also it's Benny's birthday this Wednesday! He's the real stud of the family! Best brother anyone could ask for!
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Elda Hess
Pictures:
1. With Elda Mumford @ the airport right before he left
2. Me and Presidnet Naan
3. My fijian mom, aunti, and little sister:)
4. A funeral we went to
5. Labasa District!!
6. Little Kali
7. After chruch yesterday
8. Selfie @ the Three Sisters hike
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