Ni Sa Bula Vinaka, na wekaqu!
Konichiwa; Genki Desu?!
Hello! My dear, beloved eternal friends, and eternal family!!
Time is one asset I have in such scarce supply!
Souls coming unto the restored fullness of the Gospel, is a blessing in such uncontainable volumes and mass and quantity that my companion and I can barely supply THEIR needs!
This has been a week of true joy.
This has been the fastest week of my life--and I am not exaggerating one bit. This has been a week that zipped past... deserves a speeding ticket!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!
To address the topic "True Joy-the quest of Eternal Beings"
First I invite you to go read the first 2 chapters of this modern-day Prophet's book:
Who Am I? Eternal Beings
Some Indians fed me goat hearts the other day.. that was interesting.
This is the after photo of one of our sharks we gutted and cooked the other week. I would show you the before picture, but a virus has taken all the photos I have taken up to this point in my mission.
The shark tasted great!
Even though a virus got to all my 3000 photos from the mission so far, I am perfectly happy and content :) I have a joy and a happiness that i have attained unto from this fullness of truth and happiness that I have come 8000 miles to share-- a happiness and a joy that can't even be touched or hindered by 3000 photos being taken away.
I am so thankful! This 'trial' has only positively affected me, and I move forward on higher and happier ground. I know in whom I have trusted, I have trusted in the true and living God; my Father. And He doesn't do anything but what is very best for each of His children if they will trust Him. I choose to trust Him, and therein in my joy! As I live His way , I attain unto His level of Joy and I master life in every degree.
On the mission I have seen, is that Heavenly Father comes as close as we desire and then choose to be to Him. Seek Him, and I promise you will find Him.
I know that everyone that is put in our path, is indeed put in our path for a beautiful and divine, grand reason. We can do something to bless them, to reach out to them, to lift and edify them. Fortune favors the bold and abandons the timid--so get out there all the way out of your comfort zone to the blessing and lifting of others!!!
We're here affecting eternity! We are touching all the realms ahead of us, every time we choose to look up and look outward.
As we live with an outward and upward focus, we are the ones that grow upward and outward!
I have found that all my talents and abilities that I ever had, have been multiplied and enhanced and redoubled and magnified 100x over on my mission! I have learned on my mission that I truly have no limits, when I give my Heavenly Father and my Savior Jesus Christ no limits in my life. That is the great key--their way will be the only one that leads to what our heart hungers for.
Gave blessings of healing this week, and the people were healed. The power of Christ's authority is saving and changing lives. His power has been restored and I am a witness of the truth and divinity of this work.
You all remember Soni, right? She is one of our dear investigators. Soni was approached by 8 other churches in 2 days, but she knew from God that this one is the true church, so she thanked them all but, stood firm on what Heavenly Father had told her. A pastor was saying a lot of lies about the LDS church, and Soni was defending the church. Her testimony is so strong. She prays non-stop every day. She is so childlike and pure and has stronger faith than I have yet seen in anyone in all of Fiji.
Soni and Kirti are progressing so incredibly and magnificently in the gospel. Their baptism will be on the 11th of May. We had to move the day of their baptism just so we could have time to finish all the lessons and prepare them to make that important step and promise with their Heavenly Father.
Learning a culture has been so fun. I have learned several cultures in the time I have been here in Fiji. I have learned that in learning a culture, you go about it in studies and mimicking and seeking and asking and trying and improving and adapting.
Well, this week, Heavenly Father taught me that I need to now apply all the principles I applied in learning all these earthly cultures, to learning the Celestial culture. I will learn the way my Savior lives and adapt to it as I have to these cultures.
The drastic changes I will have made by the end of my mission will be like an infant to an adult. Heavenly Father is positively changing me in every way. I already look back and hardly recognize the old me. I advance every day in progression and growth. It has only come by having all my focus be outside of myself and toward my heavenly Father. Just like plants, we grow daily if we're drawing unto the Sun with all our might mind and strength.
A gift I believe we all have, is actually a lack of-- it is the gift of a lack of LIMITS. You have no limits.
I have learned that on my mission.
1436598754 other things, but 0 time.
love,
Eternal Missionary,
Elder Howard
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