Merry Christmas December 24, 2018

Merry Christmas!!!

Hello everyone! It is Christmas day today and so this is way cool! I guess I'll give an update for the week real quick because I don't have a lot of time! 

This week we have seen some amazing Christmas miracles! One is Sairoj! She is the mother in a part member family, and stays right on Grantham road near the chapel! Well until this week I had never met her! We have walked passed her house so many times and I never knew her! Well finally this week we were able to meet her! She is such a nice lady and just so prepared. She has been coming to church off and on for the past couple years, but because she doesn't speak English she has never been able to take the lessons! Ahh crazy! Well in the past week we have taught her 3 lessons and she will be baptised on the 6th of Jan! She is another reason that all the stress over the Hindi language was so, so worth it! Much more to the story but not enough time to tell! 

Yesterday was really hard. Both of the wards we are in decided to do church at the exact same time because of Christmas. Well that put us in a hard situation! Luckily we have some awesome Senior couples that came in clutch for us! The Miller's were at Suva 1st to be there for Rina, Pravind, and Maverik! It went really good and we were soooo happy! Their baptism will also be on the 6th! 

Atiil Ardarsh's father has make so much progress this week!! We taught two lessons and he came to church yesterday at Suva 3rd ward! It was special to see him there with Ardarsh!! One of the best moments I've been a part of recently! I bought them a frame and put the pictures of us all at Ardarsh's baptism in it for Christmas! They loved it and it was a great Christmas moment:)

Although I've been saying it a while, this week we are finally going to go with Bishop and Mark Lata to go get the marriage all figured out for their family's baptism which will hopefully be on the 6th also! 

We found Cho and Ma!! Thank goodness! All we knew was they moved to the school near Nabua. Well we were walking around with not a lot of hope of finding them saying almost as a joke,"We just need to follow the Spirit." We looked one last place and found them out front of a small house right as they were leaving to go to town. It was the exact moment we needed to be there or else we wouldn't have known they were staying there!! Crazy cool miracle!!

Today is Christmas and it doesn't feel like a normal Christmas at all!! No snow, no Christmas tree, no presents, no family, but even without those things I am so happy! It's honestly weird to me how happy and at peace I am!! I love it here so much!! 

More happened, but I forgot a lot of it so sorry! I hope you all have a good Christmas though!

Sorry no pictures bc I forgot my sd card reader! My bad! 

Love you guys!!! 

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Elda Hess