Ashirvaad dekta yaar 6/24/18

Had another great week this week! It is such a blessing to have my companion back! We have been working really hard this week and are seeing many miracles! One huge miracle we saw this week was Sunil!! Sunil is the husband of Uma our recent convert and has been coming to church with his wife and daughter for the past year. He is so awesome and we are really close with them, but for some reason he never wanted to talk about baptism and whenever we tried to bring it up

him and his family would tell us that he isn't ready yet and we can't force him. Well just 5 days ago as we were talking to Uma on the phone she told us that "uncle" wants to get baptized!! We were so excited! We went by that night and because of his great doctrinal knowledge and dedicated church attendance felt prompted to set a baptismal date for that Saturday! The baptism was so awesome and life is just so good!! We now have helped them set a new goal of going to the temple as a family to be seal for time and all eternity. 

We recently found a family that is super keen for the gospel. They came to church yesterday after getting invited by our recent converts family. We hit it off right away and they invited us to a family get together for the son's birthday last night. We were really busy with planning, call-ins, and so forth, but we went and had the opportunity to share about Jesus Christ and The Plan of Salvation to the entire extended family who came! Turns out most of them are already Christian they want us to come by their house also to share about the church! All together we got 11 different numbers, and we are excited as it was a great start to the work ahead of us next transfer and in the upcoming months.

Yesterday in church we had 3 of our recent converts(Sonu, Josefa, and Timoci) receive the Aaronic Priesthood. We also got to go to the temple with 3 recent converts this past week. It is such a good feeling when seeing these new converts moving forward and working towards new goals after their baptisms.

We went to the Temple this week with our recent converts Sonu, Anjana, and Tina because it was their first time going inside! It was such a cool experience. Because of a shortage of men with the Priesthood I baptized 6 people in a row doing 10+ names each, and by the time I was done my arm was super tired haha! 

I love this quote from President Nelson's talk in the Sunday morning session of General Conference. 

"Nothing opens the heavens quite like the combination of increased purity, exact obedience, earnest seeking, daily feasting on the words of Christ in the Book of Mormon, and regular time committed to temple and family history work."

I testify that this is true! I wrote up these 5 things on the whiteboard in our flat and I know that this really works, as we have seen the heavens open and blessing rain down in the form of revelation and many other blessings. 

Life is good!! I love you all! Have a great week! 

Papitaiso

This week has been really good. Elder Lee is back and doing good! I am very happy to have my companion back!! That definitely was a high point of the week being able to get back with him. I really look up to Elder Lee a lot. He is a great missionary and although we haven't been able to do as much work together as we'd like, he has had a positive attitude throughout this whole trial. He is just a great guy and a great missionary. 

Joseva and Timoci got baptized and confirmed! It was such an amazing experience to be able to be a part of their conversion to the gospel. Love those guys.

We have had a couple really cool experiences this week!! Especially with our investigator named Kriteshni. I have talked a little about Kriteshni in the past, but haven't mentioned much about her because we hadn't seen her in a while. Well we were a little frustrated in how long it had been and not being able to get a hold of her over the phone like she told us to, and so me, Elder Guyman, and Elder Giles decided to go find her haha! It was super out of the blue, but we just headed out to go find her house. I had been to her house one time prior, but it was a month or so ago and it was super late at night and so I really couldn't remember too well where it was. Just the general area. Well we wandered around for a little bit(got about 200 smiles on the way), and then we finally found it and her mom was home! We came in and found her mom super super happy!!! Kriteshni came a few minutes later and they were both so happy and just overboard excited! It made me happy too, but I felt like we were missing something. Like they maybe knew something we didn't. Her father then came home and was pretty nice to us, but I don't know it was just weird because everyone was happy but no one talked too much. We left and they told us to come back the next day!

The next day we found out that, long story short, Kriteshni knows the church is true. She has been reading the Book of Mormon and has been trying to call us to come for the lessons, but every time she tries her father tells her she can't. Her mom is very supportive though and they talked together just 2 days before we came and prayed to God and Kriteshni explained how she said,"Heavenly Father I feel like this is the path you have put before me, but please show me a sign so that I can know that this is what you want me to do. Because right now I can't move forward. I need help." Well the day we came she and her mom both knew it was an answer to their prayers. And it was her birthday just to make it even better!! And so that was just awesome! We came back the 2nd day and we found out that she has finished 3 Nephi in the Book of Mormon!! She is so awesome. We gave her a blessing to have the strength to talk to her father about her desire the get baptized. She just called yesterday after church again and told us to come back Monday(today). We are heading there in just a few minutes! Sorry long story, but it was just a huge miracle we saw this week and honestly I still can't even do it justice in the time I have on right now. 

Zone conference went really good!! It was with 4 zones together, and so so many people were there. Also it was the first time our whole intake was together! I'll send a pic of us 4 down below. Crazy to think Sister Ioane and Sister Kau only have 1 transfer left!!

Love you guys. Have a great week!!

Elder Hess

Hamar saati beemar hei

This week has been good, although unfortunately my companion Elder Lee's health has gotten worse. We were in the hospital from Tuesday until Thursday doing tests and scans.Finally after getting a CT scan they found out that he has Hepatitis A. So his liver isn't doing so well and after consulting with the doctor and President Higgings they decided that he need to be quarantined in our flat for a week until his next appointment on Wednesday. This disease is pretty contagious and so he has to be all by himself and been for the past 4 nights and will be for the next couple days as well. He isn't allowed to leave the flat and so it's pretty crazy, and he is so bored. It has been hard not having a companion, but over the past week I have been just floating around from companionship to companionship doing exchanges.But it hasbeen pretty fun actually. But please make sure to please pray for Elder Lee. 

From the couple days of work we were able to get in this week we have see some really cool miracles. This week we were able to finish the lessons with Josefa and Timoci and it is so awesome seeing how prepared they are! They honestly are so excited and so are we!! Josefa was telling me some super cool insights on how the Book of Mormon goes together with the Bible! It was so awesome! Their baptism will be this Saturday! 

Well not so much time, but I love you guys and love this work as well! God is good! Have a great week fam! 

Elder Hess