Hows the fam been?!?!?
This week was just.......wow.
This week was just miracles after miracles!! Wednesday we were E Knapp for the
afternoon while we waited for his companion E Brown to get here! So we went to
faafesootai a referral we got from a member family, in third ward! We went and
a little 11 year old, Masi, opened up the door and then an older girl,
Toai(19), came to the door and invited us in! We came in and just got to
faamasani with them, and they both started to open up heaps!! They just moved
here from Upolu about 2 months ago and didn't have a church to go to, so
they've been searching! This last Sunday, they were going to be baptized in the
LMS church, but then we showed up! To'ai then began asking us heaps of
questions about us as missionaries, she wanted to know if girls go on missions,
how old we had to be, what we needed to do to go on missions.....and then
this....she had a dream since she was young that she would serve a mission!!!
She wants to be baptized, but just wants to go to church a few times and watch
a baptism before she gets baptized, but it just blew our minds!!!!!!! And then
after we shared a little message with her and Masi, Masi gave us a faafetai
speech like a matai!!! And then while he was thanking us, he began to cry as he
thanked us for coming and sharing what we did!!!! IT WAS INSANE!!!! By far, one
of the coolest mission experiences I've EVER been blessed to be apart of!!!!
Then Toai was able to make it to church with us on Sunday and LOVED IT!!! And
then on Sunday, we talked with Terry, and an 18 year old who's been living with
his girlfriend's family cause his family has some major problems, but he wants
to get baptized but he's still living with his girlfriend who wants to go on
her mission! But he came on Sunday, and he just looked ticked, he walked up to
us and it took a while for us to get him talking, but we finally went to a room
and starting talking with him after sacrament meeting, and then he said
something that made both E Faalogo's and my heart drop...."I don't want to
get baptized in your church anymore, sorry for wasting your time, I don't want
to live anymore." We all just kind of sat there for a little bit and then
my comp and I started talking with him and we talked about how when people
begin to get closer to God, Satan will work just as hard to get You away from
God. So, that's when we see who has the diligence to keep going...God will
never let us down if we put Him first before everything! That is the first and
great commandment He has given us! And then Terry turned 180 degrees!!!!! By the time we
were done, he's going to talk with his girlfriend to move out quickly so he can
get baptized and then start preparing for HIS mission and leave with his
girlfriend on their missions!!!! SO BLESSED TO BE ABLE TO SEE THESE CHILDREN OF
GOD COMING CLOSER ONE DAY AT A TIME TO THEIR SAVIOR, REDEEMER AND MOST OF ALL,
THEIR CREATOR!!!(;
And haha my quote isn't half
as sweet as Yours, but I write my own quote or grab one from a conference talk,
but this weeks, I just started writing, and this is what I came up with...
"Live to Love those Around Us"
So
pumped to here from YOUS THIS WEEK!!!!
Love
to here from Yous in a little bit!!!! Miss Yous like CRAZY!!!!!!!
Love
Elda Laason
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| Just pondering on the beach |
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I knelt down to begin my fast after one of our feeds
this week, and I set the BoM down, and after I closed my prayer, I looked down
and I just HAD to take a pic!!
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Clarence Crichton, Daryl's little brother, taught me how to
play a couple songs on the guitar....definitely a bucket list checked off!
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