Baptisms, translations, sickness, and more!

This week was full of so many stories that I don't have time to tell them all, but here are some highlights.

The number one highlight of the week was definitely Sonu's baptism!! It was such a good day! It was early in the morning because we had Stake Conference the same day. At the baptism Sonu bore his testimony after the ordinance and it was so special!! He has a powerful testimony of the Restorations and prayer! Next goal... MISSION:) He is 23 and so he definitely has time to prepare to serve!  He is such a good guy and I have grown to love him so much! He is the Indian boy we are with in a lot of the pictures. Elder Ishibashi got permission to come back to the area and baptize Sonu just before he left to go back home! He was at the baptism and just a couple hours later caught his flight back home to Hawaii! It was sad to see him go! Really loved serving with him! 

At Stake Conference we had a really cool thing happen. So Stake Conference is done is English, but they have a translation department that translates the conference into both Fijian and Hindi! They have a back room set up with a bunch of cool equipment and a headset so you can hear the talk being given, and then speak the translations through the speaker which then gets send to all the different headsets that have been distributed throughout the audience so that they can understand what is going on the same moment it is spoken! Technology is pretty dang cool!! They were short on help for the Hindi translations and so someone recommended me to help with the translations ahhahh! Well I didn't feel super qualified and was a little nervous because it was so 'on the spot', but I did 2 talks in the Saturday session that first day and then the second day they asked for help again and so I did the translation for about 4 out of 9 talks given during the Sunday session! It was a really cool and fun experience!! Definitely it was a first for people to see a white kid doing that haha! They also are going to talk with President Higgins to see if I can go in a week or two to go help them at the Suva Zone Conference as well. Speaking Hindi was really hard for me to adjust to, but now I can say with my whole heart that I love it!! I only got 2  pictures from the first day! But I'll send them below! 

So my new companion is Elder Lee Chip Sao, and he is awesome!!, But the reason we are on a little late today is because we just came from the Hospital. He is so, so sick! It is actually pretty scary because they don't know what is wrong with him. He was in the hospital in the West for 5 days last week and then when he got transferred here to Nausori things haven't been getting better! He has been throwing up blood and not able to eat anything for a long time. They said today that he has an infection in his bloodstream, but they have no idea where it is from or what to do to help him, and so we are all a little nervous! So if you guys could all keep him in your prayers please! I'll keep yous updated on how the things are going. 

Well because we don't have so much time today we've got to head out now. I love you guys! Hope everything is going well for yous all! God is good and has a plan for us all! We just need to keep faith. Have a great week!

Pictures:

1-3: Baptism

4-5: Translation 

6: Devi/Sami family

7. Dinner with Aaji

8. Tuinamoala family last week

9. At the chapel

10. At Sonu's house with his mom

11. Two cute kids I met

12. Josefa and Timoci who's baptism will be in a couple weeks woohoo

13. Levai's family

14. Lunch at Priti's house

15. Jone is the MAN

16-17: More with Levai

18. Tradition

19. Send these two off from the airport to Rotuma. So jealous.