This week has been good! We have been working really hard to help our investigators progress! A lot of the craziness with funerals and such is starting to die down, and so it's been nice to start being able to put 100 percent attention on our investigators. Like how it should be:)
Kumari one of our investigators gets baptized this Saturday and we are super excited! He has been looking forward to it for a while now! His wife also wants to be baptized really bad and talks about it as much as Kumari or more, but she had an accident and now she can't walk. We are in the process of helping her get a wheelchair so that she can also be baptized soon.
A lot of the time it is frustrating because in Suva lots of people can speak English, and so sometimes I get frustrated and wonder why we have to go through all this difficulty to try and learn Hindi, but people like Kumari and Kala make it worth it. They can't speak any English and are right in the city. As of two years ago they wouldn't have been able to hear the gospel, but now because the Hindi speaking program has opened up we are able to find them. And it's not just them, all of our Indian investigators right now only speak Hindi, and so that is what motivates me to keep going even when the language is hard. Elder Mounga has been a big help. He goes home in 4 weeks and so he is very experience in the language and can answer lots of questions that I never understood before now. There is still so much to learn language wise, but I now feel comfortable and so that has been a blessing being able to focus more now on the details.
On Wednesday last week we were finding in a Fijian settlement and asked a family if there were any Indian families that lived there. The little boy led us to the back corner of the settlement and sure enough there were 4 indian houses. It was such a blessing. We were guided there for a reason! We ended up getting 8 new investigators in just 1 hour. Those families were prepared for us to meet them. That is always such a cool experience.
On the walk back from those appointments, we had a crazy guy try and mess with us. It was pretty nuts. He was shoving us and stuff. He even licked Elda Mounga's arm hahaha. That part was way funny!! But yeah it looked pretty bad for a minute, but we said a prayer together and then were able to leave without him really noticing.
Yesterday me and Elder Mounga taught the YSA class at our Suva 3rd Ward. It went really good! We talked about Nauvoo and how the church grew during that time through the sacrifice of the saints. I learned lots as I studies D&C 124. God has promised us so much as we devote to build His kingdom. We must always try to keep an eternal perspective on things, because helping build the kingdom of God is the most important work.
Ah so much has happened this week and I just never have time to write it all down. Hopefully you all know how much I love it out here. There is so much we are going through, but it is all such a blessing. I love being a missionary!
Hum ii kam ke bhohut passand karta. Hum janta hei ki ii gir jar kar sache hei. Tou keonki hum uu janta, hum mangta aapan zinda ke devote karta. Hum janta hei ki Ishu Massi ke balidaan ke dwara, saab humlog sakta saffa hoige. Hum aaplog se bhohut pyar khare hei! Namaste!
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Elda Hess
Pictures!
1. Me and elda aisa with some kids from the ward last P day!
2. Cutest little kids
3. SUVA
4. Me and Elda Arrieta(Argentina) and Elda Morolo(PNG)
5. Me and Elda Mo'unga! He's the man!
