FISHHEAD!

I have SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much to tell!!! But I'm too busy sharing the gospel!  I must use the Lord's time, doing His work while I'm here.  I'll tell you all about it in 2 years, and all the years of my life after this. But now is the day the Lord has given me, and I'm fully and completely swallowed up in the work of bringing about the Exaltation and Eternal Life of man.


I am doing beyond great!! The first week went so great!!!! Better than I even imagined or hoped it could!  Me and Elder Nawahine get along perfectly. I'm as close to him as any friend I ever had back home, and as close to him as my own family! We only uplift each other. We laugh and sing and work in perfect unity.  We are both learning SO MUCH from one another. He is an awesome and celestial missionary! We are sharing the gospel enthusiastically, freely, and joyfully literally every opportunity Heavenly Father gives us.  I'm thriving here.  I blessed the Sacrament on Sunday, and shared a long and wonderful testimony completely in Fijian, and I speak freely in Fijian to all the members and love them and they love me. I've certainly been eating good.  I'm healthy.  I feel like I belong in Fiji more than I belong anywhere else in the world.  This is where I thrive!!!! I feel more united with Heavenly Father, and completely one with Him, more than I feel I ever.  My love for Him and our Savior is stronger than it's been at anytime in my existence up to this point.  I have absolute zero homesickness. I am fully and completely here. I have withheld none of myself from the Lord, I'm fully given over to Him and we're One.  I CAN'T KEEP FROM BEING SUPER RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY! THIS WORK IS SO ENERGIZING!  

I know selective obedience brings selective blessings. I'm here to be 100% obedient, 100% in the work, 100% one with Christ and my personal and literal Eternal Father; not 99%. 

With Heavenly Father's enabling and strengthening power, I'll literally have NO regrets at all.  

I am here with total surrender to Him.
I have given and consecrated myself fully--not partly.
My predominant and consuming desire is to do what the Lord wants me to do.



My companion had worms in his brain this week.  I gave him a Priesthood blessing, and the power of this restored priesthood power and authority Heavenly Father restored to the earth, my companion was healed.  I got to make him delicious surprise meals for him and be there for him and serve and love him while he was suffering.  We have such great times. He says my non-stop ridiculously happy and always positive attitude has rubbed off on him.  Now he's thankful for everything good or "bad" that happens and he chooses joy no matter what the circumstance or conditions we're in.  I love him!!  I love the truth of this gospel, and I'm so thankful for priesthood power.  Me and my companion have dreams and visions from the Lord, and they come true and we see their fulfillment. 




Here's the fishhead! I ate the whole thing! Sucking out the eyeballs and brain was weird, but awesome!  I saw the head on the table during our Bau Branch Christmas Party, and immediately grabbed it and asked the members and my companion to help me know which parts to eat... they said, "All of it is to eat, Elder! Eat it all!"  I happily did so!


And this picture is just really strong wind that blew me sideways :)