Boy Ni Veikau

It was a good week this week. Some Viral infection has been sweeping though Fiji so we had to take 2 sick days but now we are getting back into it. Transfer calls are tomorrow, so we will see what happens. Exciting stuff. We got to visit some cool villages this week in the heart of the country. Way crazy places and way humble people. The work is great, and the people are greater. Love you all

Elda G

Father-Son lunch date

This Taro root was bigger than my head. Also sidenote, "A little bit off the sides" I said.

Nasalia Koro

Me with the Wai Ni Mala

Finally got a $7 Note

bati lutu

Well it was a good week. Got humbled when I didn't proselyte much by our unit building because I figured it would be picked clean, then we got 6 people on date. All referrals. But yeah the work is just about to explode here. Been putting in work and when you bear your burdens and work hard Heavenly Father will bless you. It isn't a maybe, it is guaranteed. He did it to Nephi, and he'll do it to all of his other kids. It's been real, it's been hot, sorry for the short E-mail but i'll try to make up for it by sending some more pics.

Loloma bibi

Elda G

The walk to the river last baptism. Had to take that one way careful with the white iSulu.

Malaysian Dawa. Pretty good grape like fruit that grows by our flat

The Singh Family

Some delicious chicken feet

Some JW propaganda

I pulled out her other front tooth haha

Back to 4 Man Flat

Bula Vinaka Kemudou Kece!

It was a good week. Some things are getting switched up back in Naita! We are back to covering only one area and 2 more Elders are coming to the flat, so yes mega bed is now gonezo. We had a good run while it lasted. But yeah Elder Iafeta and Hawkins will be sharing the flat with us now!

We had a great week this week with investigators! Sister Sova has been making moves towards getting married which is awesome! She will be baptized soon. It's always awesome to see someone showing their faith. We definitely see both ends of the spectrum, but she really desires to be baptized and she's doing something about it.

We did more service for Aliki this week. We went pretty deep into the bush and helped him haul out some firewood. Probably the most I have sweated in my entire life. It's good though. We've been able to see him progress which has been way rad.

Quote of the week; "I could watch that all night and all day man!" Brother Singh when talking about WWE

More Fijian Kids

 I pulled out her tooth haha. Then I was wondering what they did with teeth and her mom just said, "Cool" asked if her sister wanted it and then threw it on the roof😂

6 Month mark..

ComPAnION

More Flooding

It was a great week but as usual, more flooding.

We had a lot of good lessons this week. Lots of awesome people in our teaching pool and great help from members which makes it awesome.

Well with the flooding, we had to leave the after church feast early because it was raining pretty hard, so I felt like it was going to flood. I wanted to go visit some people on the other side of one of the bridges so we were driving down there, some dudes stopped us and told us it was flooded but I just told them I was going to stop and we were going to cross it, just the usual routine. When I pulled up I saw one of the girls from the village and asked her how bad it was flooded. I thought it was maybe knee high, but she told me it was above her head. So I looked, and sure enough it was crazy bad flooding. Long story short we weren't able to visit those people.

Elda Hippolite and I got to teach Sunday School and I wasn't informed until after the closing prayer in sacrament meeting so I just kinda jerry-rigged together a lesson from what I  could say but it went pretty well. Oh also one of the members went up in testimony meeting and asked everyone for forgiveness because one of the Eldas took his bag of Dalo from him and got his white shirt dirty and the whole Village saw haha. Fijians love using testimony time to ask for forgiveness.

This week I shared about Mosiah 24:14 a few times. I just thought it was really cool because the people in our area can relate to it with literally having heavy burdens of crops on their backs. When we turn to the lord, he can lift physical and spiritual burdens from our backs. Way cool stuff.

Anyway love you all,

Elda G

Sunday School

Peppa Pig Reppin in Fiji

Ikarua papitaiso e na Uciwai!

Good week this week!

We were able to baptize one of the investigators that we inherited from Elda Burge and Elda Gabba. Way cool stuff! He was way prepared to be baptized and he is just an all around way cool guy. I felt way happy when he showed up which was a testimony builder that true happiness comes from the gospel of Christ, and the happiness of the world fades.

Oh also transfers happened and things got a little shaken up. Elda Jonathan is gone, and Elda Hippolite has come to replace him. Hippolite is from NZ and a way chill dude. We have been working way hard these past few days and seeing the fruits of our labors. Sireli's younger brother wants to take the lessons an we have permission to teach him but it is kinda hard to get a hold of him. That's okay though we will keep trying. Our investigator Aliki has been showing progress with living the word of wisdom which is cool. Blessings and prayers really work.

We have been doing a mission wide read of the BofM recently and it has been awesome. Reading about the blessings that Nephi received from obedience are awesome motivators to remain obedient even when it seems like a hassle.

Oh also one time we were teaching one of the members and a centipede was in his shirt so that definitely was an adrenaline rush when he flicked it off himself and it started coming right at me. Afterwards we were all laughing way hard even though I saw my life flash before my eyes.

Love everyone lots and thanks for the support I've gotten!!

Sota Tale macawa mai oqo.

Elda G

Brother Raisema and his family. He's one of a kind for sure. 

River Baptism

Temple!

Seva (The one we baptized to my left) and other members of the unit!

Cikinovo

It was a great week since last Monday.

We were able to do some service for one of our investigators named Aliki we have been working with for a while. He wanted us to help him clean out an old house he inherited so we gladly helped him out. It was in pretty rough shape but about 10 kids from the village who were all playing together saw us and all came in and helped which made the work go so much faster. At one point I was picking up an old box spring, and one of the kids yelled, "Cikinovo! Cikinovo! Rua Rua! Ka Levu!" I wasn't 100% sure what Cikinovo meant but then I was like yeah that probably means centipede so I dropped it, and Elda Jonathan came out of nowhere with some metal pipe and the dude came over with a chunk of wood and they made quick work of them and we went back on working. Fun stuff. We have been trying to get him to church but he hasn't come yet which is too bad but we keep trying.

Also here's the story of how I almost had to sleep in a village overnight. So we had an appointment with one dude who had a lot of Q's for us and we already had to reschedule because of the fake cyclone last week, so we were determined to make it this week. We parked the truck offsite and crossed 2 bridges with knee high water that were pretty strong. Well, after our appt we went to the first bridge and it was chest high so we couldn't really go for it so we said some prayers and then chilled at a member's house who was going to let us sleep there if we had to. Well at about 9:30 the water died down enough that we could cross but it was still way strong, so some Fijian man pretty much carried me across haha. Good times though we just had to walk through the jungle in the pitch black in the rain which was awesome.

It's been fun here though. Elda Jonathan is coming up on his 6 month mark in Naita which mean he might be leaving tomorrow. But change is okay just more chances to grow. Love you all

Elda G

(sorry, no pics this week.  Sam says the computer has a virus so he didn't want to put his SD card into it)

Psychlone Mona

Yeah so totally in the dark about everything that was going on with the cyclone, but from what I know I think it passed and just missed Viti Levu. We still got lots of rain though and lots of wind. Learned that Cyclone in Fijian is Cagi Laba or Murderous wind. But yeah we were totally fine. Our area got flooded though so we got evacuated to the Zone Leader's area. Got to work in an English area for a few days. We should be back after Zone Conference on Tuesday.

Also other news Elda Burge got transferred and so did his comp mid transfer so now we cover both Naitasiri areas. We have lots of work to do now. We also have the mega flat to ourselves so you know I made a mega bed with the extra stuff in our flat. It's a little weird having all that space to ourselves now but I guess it's just part of the Naita experience.

We got permission from Sereli's dad to baptize his younger brother Mosese!! He has been coming to church too for a while and we just needed to ask him and he said it was okay with him which was awesome! Great to see him working with his family to help them make covenants with our Heavenly Father as well. One of our other people on date, Aliki, was progressing way nice on his WofW problems. Way nice spirit in those lessons.

Well yeah not much else to say.
Shout out to Man City for beating Liverpool.

loloma bibi

Elda Gwilliam

Cooking up some Ota (Fern leaf)

The face says it all

Elda Burge hit a bird

The Setup

Tei Tei army putting in work on a Chief's gravesite