Life@Fullest + Eternities YOURS

What a life this is!!!!! It's unbounded and limitless!!!!!!

I truly feel fluent in Fijian. I'm not perfect, but Heavenly Father truly speaks literally everything through me.  I just spend all my days looking and listening in awe to the things He literally fills my mouth and actions with. I can't list all the ways I see Heavenly Father's hand, (not just in a DAY, but in an HOUR!) IN EVERYthing I do! This is His work, and I'm proud to have the privilege of being one with Him in it! Thank you for loving and following the Lord!  Thank you for making the most of your time on earth.  Thank you for your emails and letters! 

Everything in my life really does fill me with a fire and ridiculous desire to yield to my Heavenly Father in every degree and detail in my life.  Thank you so sososo much for your love and prayers!  I read everything you send me, and am living whatever advice you give!

Thanks to Heavenly Father, I feel truly fluent in the language of the Spirit.  I hear it almost more clearly than my natural ears hear things.  I know exactly when and what it's speaking to me.  And I never miss a prompting.  I have no regrets.  I have no opportunities I don't seize.

He gave me a goal at the very start of my mission, to never ever ride a bus or taxi without sharing the gospel effectively and setting up appointments to come to people's homes and share with their whole family; or to give at least my testimony, smile, love, and a pamphlet or pass-along-card to someone.  I'm proud and humbled to say, by His enabling and strengthening power, I've fully and completely lived up to that goal Heavenly Father and I set!

There's been not one bus in which I haven't fully achieved this goal!

Every week, I have exchanges. (for one day, Missionaries from another area, swap one companion in exchange for me or my companion,)  I've gone on more than a dozen now!  Each one is better than the last--and that's saying something, because each one is unimaginably good!! But Heavenly Father finds ways to always top the last one!  That's how each day of mission has been!  My fire and joy and usefulness to Heavenly Father, skyrockets higher and higher every day.  I love being one with Heavenly Father in His eternal work!  It's so energizing! I'm never without His spirit!  It's incredible! 

There's not a single person I don't perfectly get along with and love!!  As I serve others and seek only Heavenly Father's approval, then the other missionaries love and respect and honor me, and we immediately become best friends!  I haven't had one day where I have had one conflict with a companion.  Not one!  

Why?

Because Heavenly Father has taught me correct principles of leadership, and as I live them, I see He's right about them!  They work--and therefore I am able to bless His children, each exchange that He gives me! 

Christ shows and teaches me how to focus every degree of my life and being, outward and upward, in unselfish service to others.  I have found that when I treat others  as if they are Christ--and serve and love and honor and respect them as if they are Christ, then our unity and friendship is perfect! Perfectly one! Perfectly joyful and full of love and too much smiles and laughter!  Heavenly Father is able to unrestrainedly pour out almost more investigators and progress in the work than we can handle!  What great keys He is constantly teaching me!  I write everything down, that He tells me throughout every day, and then I immediately go to work enthusiastically to live and become whatever principle He had me write down!

I cannot believe what the mission is making me! My potential and my joy are unbounded.  I don't feel the veil.  Heavenly Father and I literally have conversations!

Every companionship inventory, and every exchange review has been uplifting, fully of love, compliments, and laughter!  All the 10 weeks I've been with Elder Nawahine, there hasn't been one day we've had one conflict or bad feeling.  There hasn't been one inventory where we had to work anything out, because we live by correct principles and therefore are perfectly one with each other and Heavenly Father!  All we do is love, serve, laugh and work perfectly and joyfully together!  In all my 10 weeks, there hasn't been one exchange where we didn't non-stop love each other, laugh and smile too much, work too miraculously in unison, and have heavy hearts as the exchange came to an end. :)

This exchange this week with Elder Motuliki was absolutely miraculous! 

He is a 5 Star missionary!  I watched Heavenly Father work miracles through him.  We pray literally every moment the Spirit tells us to; and I believe that is why we see non-stop and unbelievable miracles.  Elder Motuliki is so obedient and SO happy!  The people love him, and I love him!  A Tongan family and he, got to converse in Tongan!  They want to come to church and be baptized! It actually turned out that they are his really close family! Heavenly Father works undeniable miracles whenever we heed D&C 82:10! He is so close to Heavenly Father!  We have such stellar missionaries in this district!! WOW!!!

I have fully seen and come to fully know why this promise is true: As the Savior sat on the Mount of Olives, He declared: 

“Take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost” (Mark 13:11). 

Love and a focus only on the investigator's needs, and giving yourself wholly and completely to the Father to speak through you as a channel by which His words may come, then the Holy Ghost is the only one that speaks.  I cannot tell you how many miracles I've witnessed!

Through heavenly aid and assistance, and the enabling power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, there has been not one hour of one single day where I did not witness and personally participate in a miracle.  

In all my acts and conduct, I ever have the consciousness that I am now preparing and making myself a life to be continued through eternities.   I act upon no principle that I would be ashamed or unwilling to act upon in heaven. I am sealed and committed to proving my Heavenly Father right about everything He highest believed in me when He and I looked down from the Pre-Earth life at all that my life and mission here could highest be. I let principles pure, honorable, holy, and virtuous, always rule and govern.  AND MY MISSION IS absolutely and fully THRIVING SO MUCH!!! In literally every way!!

I have to be honest: Elder Nawahine is the best missionary I may have ever met.  He is truly one of the finest missionaries in the whole mission.  As the one who spends literally every minute of every day with him, I can tell you his obedience and diligence are almost superhuman.  I've never seen a better leader.  He has taught me how to lead, how to lead this area, know all the principles that make a leader get along with everyone and anyone, all the language tricks, all the things I admire in him, he has transferred over to me.  I feel like I was given the best trainer!  I am so humbled and grateful for him, and our Mission President's wisdom and inspiration in putting us together. We pray together too much--more than we should! And that's why we see more unity than is humanly, more miracles than is natural, and more progress in the work than we can believe!  

As a companionship of perfect and complete unity and oneness, we have used our agency to cultivate the feeling to be perfect, even as our Father in heaven is perfect.  And we know He gave us that commandment so many times in the scriptures, and meant it.  We realized that could only be realized if we laid literally our whole selves on the alter of sacrifice.  And we knew that He knew whether we could conform to it or not; the Lord never has, nor will He require things of His children which it is impossible for them to perform.  We've watched Him sanctify us fully, to the point where this is a companionship of more than two.  He is now fully active in it.

The main thing I've learned, can be summed up in this quote i put on my Daily Planner:

"Be obedient to the prophetic teachings Christ would have you follow. Don’t rationalize away future happiness by taking shortcuts instead of applying sound gospel principles. Remember: little things lead to big things. Seemingly insignificant indiscretions or neglect can lead to big problems. More importantly, simple, consistent, good habits lead to a life[mission] full of bountiful blessings."

That's also something Elder Motuliki emphasized to me. 

No lesson I have taught has been by me.  I can't think of one instance where the Spirit didn't take over and where Elder Nawahine and I didn't get out of the way and let the Holy Ghost do His work.  What a full joy it is to watch!  The other day I extended the Baptismal commitment to Apenai (and investigator of ours,) and my Fijian poured out as Heavenly Father's words.  The Spirit was soooo strong!  He is going to be baptized on the 22nd!  Not a single thing I did or said was by me!  Heavenly Father really can do His work when we give ourselves all the way to Him--not just partly to Him.

As I shared last week, this is something Elder Gunderson taught me, that I've lived every day of my mission, and every minute of my every day:

"If you want to baptize a few people, talk to a few people
If you want to baptize a lot of people, talk to a lot of people
If you want to baptize everyone you can, then talk to everyone you can."

I love it!  I love love love living all the way out of my comfort zone!  I don't want a single day in the Mission to be at ALL in my comfort zone! this is where I thrive and skyrocket in eternal growth!

Elder Nawahine's goal from the beginning was to make me a missionary that could train other missionaries.  He and I have taken each day and used it to the max!  We're on schedule with all the training, and we've both fully caught the vision of our Heavenly Father's highest expectations for us, and have spent 2 or 3 days in every month fasting.  Miracles have been truly non-stop.  Heavenly Father is ready to use Elder Nawahinefor great thing in this mission and back home.  I can recommend him as truly one of the best trainers the Mission President has trained.  I have sent his family several secret letters about all the endless lists of excellent qualities I admire in their son!  We're not just companions, we are not just best friends, we are not just brothers--we top all those descriptions.  I love this companionship and how being teachable and full of joy in every day of my time with him, has prepared me for every companionship ahead to be even greater and whatever Heavenly Father wants it to highest be through His enabling power.

There is the nature of deity in the composition of my spiritual organization;  Heavenly Father transmitted to me the capabilities, powers and faculties which He Himself possesses, as much so as the child on its mother’s bosom possesses, although in an undeveloped state, the faculties, powers and susceptibilities of its parent.  And it's been beautiful to watch all those develop in this short mortal life. 

My travel in this path of exaltation will bring me to the fullness of the Lord Jesus Christ, to stand in the presence of my Father, to receive of His fullness, to have the pleasure of increasing and progressing with my family, worlds without end.  This is my vision, and Heavenly Father personally has given it to me.  Now that I know this, and know that my children are all watching me and learning from me even from the Pre-Earth life at this very moment, then why would I ever live beneath or below my fullness as one of His children? More about that topic

I am here to reach a fullness of my potential; not a someness.  And to bring all the children of God in Fiji with me--one precious eternal, glorious, divine Being at a time.