Hey
hey hey!! I loved yous emails!!!! Got the cake you sent, but we had
gotten a little bit of a chocolate craving and ate it all in one
day....about 8000 calories we counted each after our fafaga haha, no
wonder I'm tubby! And I got the bomb pic of all yous after midnight!!
Haha but yeah didn't do much partying for my bday, just split an entire cheesecake in half and ate out of a gallon thing of ice cream haha!! And
then the next day, Maria, the investigator behind our house, the older
lady, brought a turtle pie and spaghetti over, and then the Willis' gave
us a new tie each and more fruitcake, so until today, we've been eating junk as well!! I LOVED BOTH PACKAGES!!! Haha yeah the boxes were opened both before Christmas but I didn't open the presents til Christmas and New Years eve. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOUS SENT!!! I LOVED IT ALL!!! Loved to
hear about the week too!!! Sounds like the party was a total blast!!!
Haha we played the card game Idiot and Sweepies after we planned and
went to bed around 10:15ish, so exciting!!
Welp,
this week was better than last week with trying to contact
people...mainly because about half were hungover from the night before
but we contacted em!!! This is my journal entry Jan 2nd...Heaps of people were home today and yesterday
and we had opportunities to share heaps!!! Haha and I'm becoming to
really LOVE the mission as I learn the language better, the people and
conversations become more real! Just messing around with kids in the
street, to joking around with old ladies about going to go gamble at the
bishops house! Haha, it's a total crack up!! It makes the work more
enjoyable to joke around because that's how Samoans are....hilarious!!! Today
we waited at the fale sa (chapel) for 45 min for a no show on the ward
council of a ward, so we were kicking with these kids while we waited
and they were hilarious! haha we gave em chocolate that we got from our
fafaga that night, and they loved us!! Way fun!!......
And when we got to fast Sunday,
we wrote down all of our investigators and specifically fasted for each
one of them to be able to progress in faith towards baptism! Whether it
was reading the BoM, or coming to church, or quit drinking, any
situation, no matter who it may be, we knew that the Lord would bless
them with the faith they put forward!! With investigators, we gave Maria
the Ensign to read about the talk Why the Church by Elder Anderson!
It's a bomb as talk and definitely a re reader!!! Haha read again talk!!
They all are!! Haha just do it!! Alright I'm done.....with another
investigator we have, Lilio, it hurts me because she's so unhappy with
where she's living and her boyfriend she's not married to, but they have
an 8 month old, is a total jerk and abusive drunk, and she wants to
move out but can't because the family wants her to stay and do all the
cooking and cleaning while they're gone at work...so we've been talking
with her and her little guy TJ is way cute and she really wants to be
baptized so she can go do baptisms for the dead for her family, but she
either needs to get married or move out, and she doesn't want marriage,
but can't move out....it hurts because all she wants is to be happy and
she finds it when she comes to church even though the family wants her
to stay and clean so they can have food when they get back from
church...but she comes to church anyway because she knows the Lord will
bless her and her son when she puts God first! She has such a powerful
testimony and it strengthened me to see her struggle yet overcome each
and everyday! Her grandma is coming for a funeral and when she gets here
she's going to go visit Lilio and when the grandma sees the situation,
it'll be the window Lilio has been looking for to move out, so please
pray for her to overcome all this!! This is when missions become more
than just baptizing, but helping people overcome and strengthening our
own testimonies!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!
Hope all is well back home and love YOUS ALL!!!!!
Love Elder Larson😬😜😋😝
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!!
PS>>>>>>>> Maybe hold on the package and don't
send it yet, because I just found out if I get transferred over to Upolu
or Savaii, I won't get the package for a few months! They won't ship
packages from here to Upolu anymore cause its too expensive....the new
shipment address if or when I get transferred is
Elder Larson
Samoa Apia Mission
PO Box 1865
Apia Samoa
And this will also be the address to send letters to, when I get transferred off this island!!! Just FYI!!!
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| This was last pday! We found some blow holes and got some skux pics by the ocean! |
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| Another pic from pday |
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| Colby, Elder Loto, and Elder Speakman...This is us and Elder Loto from NZ!! He's so skux and funny as!! Haha he's bomb as and just a fun dude to be around!!! |
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| We got a bomb as salad from Maria, behind our house and mom and Audge, yous'll never gues what was in it that I actually ate!!?!?!? Peppers! Haha it's not way exciting but I'm appreciating healihier food more out here!!! |
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| Haha and then there's the cheesecake and ice cream we ate for new years eve....and I wonder why I'm chubby.....my comp and I for the rest of our missions will take pics of how we look at the end of each transfer and watch our bodies either go to the dogs or....yeah pretty much just how chubby we get(; |
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