We are truly giving August our ALL, and it is AWESOME!
I know I am going to leave no potential unrealized from the time I have from the Lord in this area--the largest mission in the mission--ALL of the biggest city in Fiji is the responsibility of Elder Luatua and Elder Howard. Heavenly Father is guiding us and we are yielding to Him--and that is the formula for a fullness of joy and miracles and no regrets and no potential unrealized!
We aren't just reaching our potential giving our all to Christ; we are consuming and enveloping the fullness of our potential by giving our all to Christ. He is transforming us, and we are transforming the part of His vineyard He has entrusted to us. We serve and lift each other and that gives us the power to lift up and edify and positively influence all things around us ever in our influence minute by minute, one day at a time.
My companion and I have become from the start, the best of friends. We found out that we had both been praying for exactly all that this companionship is--and then we were put together, and now we are linked to our fullness of potential because he has the lessons I wanted to gain, and I have what he had wanted to gain! The Lord is alwayys so wise about who He puts with who on the mission! We have had zero conflicts at all, only because we both know the correct principles of Christlike relationships and use meekness, humility, unity, love, work, and selflessness. We are soaring over what we thought we could've accomplished in many areas.
This is my favorite area so far in so many ways!
The other day we gave 9 blessings in one house! They are all now our new investigators after we taught them and committed them and got a return appointment.
The Lord has blessed us with 24 GOOD new investigators in just one week! The work here is getting very fired up. I believe we will be at least contacting each of these at least once this week, plus those we already had, so this week's lesson count and meaningful power of each lesson should surpass 25 and we will be giving Baptismal Commitments and giving ALL we have.
I have grown more than I could have imagined, and am still growing.
I always say this, but that really is because it always is true, but this week was the best week of my mission so far BECAUSE of how me and Elder Luatua followed the 4 keys of success I mentioned a few emails ago, with all our effort and relying on the Lord's help--and we are seeing the results in every aspect of the work in all 3 wards!
My favorite part of my mission at the moment is my companion. We are perfectly brothers and I found one of the truly best friend I've had in my life yet, and we have SOOO much we are learning from each other. We are fully committed to the Savior--and His works are being manifest in everything we do.
President, thank you for sending me here. We are transforming these 3 wards together, and consecrating ourselves only to the Savior's work here has tied us to Heavenly Father's vision and power.
I have been so humbled to witness more miracles than I knew were possible to happen. . . I've never given more priesthood blessings in one week than in this week--maybe 15 in one week... I lost count. I has taught me that the Lord knows us individually, and loves us fully, and will send us the help we need and then it is up to us to connect to Christ and take action.
Heavenly Father has given me the gift of overwhelming love for every individual in my area. Individuals are ready, even if I just walk by them on the street--the Holy Ghost tells me who is one of the 48 left, and He is leading us to EACH ONE! He is truly providing us with A LOT OF WORK... a WHOLE lot. There is more potential, and we're living to see it all realized.
We won't leave one soul without opportunity while we yet have the power to say a silent prayer and then take immediate bold action to open our mouth and be who we were destined to be--disciples of the Christ.
This is the path of a fullness of joy. This path has your name on it.
Connect to Christ fully. That is your mission--and if you choose to accept it with all your heart, it will make you 901273458912347540895174534xmore out of you than you ever even knew was half impossibly possible.
This picture was right after 2am when our car was broken into by a gang in our new neighborhood. :) We enjoyed it so much and were only positively affected by it.
I have never worked harder or more nonstop in my life. And I think I have worked hard all my life... but the work I am now fully diving into with my whole being and heart--is more than any I've ever had.
THIS WAS THE FASTEST WEEK OF MY LIFE!!!
Every week of the mission is a blur and a haze that feels unbelievably fast...but this week surpasses all prior weeks of my mission so far. We cover the most work I know of in the mission so far, and we are constantly engaged in saving people in real ways, and leading them to eternal exaltation. People are truly coming unto Christ and we are truly coming to know Him deeper than every before.
We have no time to write in our journals, write letters to family or all the beloved eternal friendships we have established in the other parts of the nation we have already served in, we sometimes don't even have time to eat! A spare minute has become an extinct thing in my life--and I LOVE IT!!! Thrive is the word that describes what a mission will make of anyone that fully engages themselves all the way to it. Likewise what Christ will make of anyone that gives themselves all the way to Him with no reservations. He is the master of writing the best stories the book of our life could become. Let's hand the pen over to the Hand of the best friend our souls and destinies have--and that's Jesus Christ!
We serve over the first LDS ward that was ever established in Fiji, along with Suva 3rd, and Nasinu 2nd Wards. Well over 1,000 individuals, but only serving one person at a time as Christ would. There are real needs in this world--and they lie in the lives of the next few people you are going to see today within the next hour, those who you'll sit next to on the bus, the one who God tells you in your heart to help--everyone. The work we each have from God is just to help one person now... always be loving and brightening the spirits and eternal prospects of somebody...at all times.
The time we got doesn't last; it goes fast.
The power is in just making now a moment of light and service to your Heavenly Father. Just make now all it can be, and that practice by itself automatically makes the long run become something amazing to look back on and then build up from, so we reach endless progress and deeper levels of joy and celestial vision.
This picture is me in my new front yard.
And this is a Fijian nativity one of our friends made by HAND and sells to anyone around the world or just right here in Fiji. Ask me about it if you're interested :)
The Lord really does provide for his servants--any of us who will, may. The title servant of the Lord isn't "Missionary," it is you and all who choose the highest way of life--Christ's way. If we are giving our all to Him, we can ask and see His all showering upon us. We're all welcome to rely on Him for all the needs we have, for He can magnify and strengthen and enable us to all that we can become. All He requires is a willing heart that asks and then has the plain simple faith to look up and forward and take the action wherein lies the power.
We were blessed with a dinner last night, in which were CHICKEN FEET! I love the new experiences of life that it endlessly gives us as we just give it another step forward.
When we were told by Heavenly Father that there were at least 48 people in this area who were ready to be found and brought unto Him, we took up the challenge as a step in the dark. It was a step in the dark--but the Lord has stepped forward to meet us in the effort we'll be willing to consecrate unto His causes. IN JUST A WEEK, He led us miraculously to 24 new investigators who He led us to. That surprised us because it is exactly half of the number Heavenly Father told Elder Luatua and I. And it has only been a week!
One example of how unusual and inexplicably divine the inspiration is that leads us to these prepared individuals; is, that the other day we were driving around trying to find a referral we had received from the members here, and Elder Luatua directed me to drive to a house and told me that the people we needed to see were in the hidden basement of this house directly to our right. We got out of the car and walked to the gate. And, how you call people out to meet you is never by door bell (those don't exist). We call out "Auntie!" or "Uncle!" (which is what you call any Hindi person who is an older adult,) and then they come out and meet you at the gate.
Well, a man came out to us, told us he was the landlord of the house and would go downstairs and bring up the tenants who stayed below. A woman came up and we asked if she held the name we were looking for. She said no, and indeed we had come to the incorrect house. She was very closed and was trying to get us to leave.
It would have been easy for us to just say, "sorry, thank you. We got the wrong house and understand you don't want us." But, Heavenly Father told us that isn't good enough--in our hearts we chose to step forward in our love for these His beloved eternal children. As we kept taking interest and simple friendship in this dear woman, her elderly mother hobbled up the stars with purpose in her eyes and curiosity in her countenance. She called out, "Don't go. I want you to come teach me."
We came in and went down to this home and established a friendship with this family. Everything transformed from them being closed and there appearing to perhaps be no potential, to them loving us, listening to a powerful lesson, really, really being interested, opening up all the way, telling us that they are going to come to our church this next week and that the young man in their family hasn't been baptized yet and that he would like to be baptized the way Christ was baptized. They even wanted to give us the key to their gate so we could just come in any time and teach them!
What amazing things can come from just keeping on going forward and upward. Going all the way out of our comfort zone, reaches us all the way up to our potential--boundless success and satisfaction in the eternal, meaningful purposes of the Almighty in us and those our life touches.
I have now finally experienced BED BUGS!!!
It rains every day here in Suva. We got Bedbugs and needed to sun our mattresses, so the very next day, Heavenly Father miraculously gave us the first sunny day we've seen in my time here yet! We now have no bedbugs!
I know I am going to leave no potential unrealized from the time I have from the Lord in this area--the largest mission in the mission--ALL of the biggest city in Fiji is the responsibility of Elder Luatua and Elder Howard. Heavenly Father is guiding us and we are yielding to Him--and that is the formula for a fullness of joy and miracles and no regrets and no potential unrealized!
We aren't just reaching our potential giving our all to Christ; we are consuming and enveloping the fullness of our potential by giving our all to Christ. He is transforming us, and we are transforming the part of His vineyard He has entrusted to us. We serve and lift each other and that gives us the power to lift up and edify and positively influence all things around us ever in our influence minute by minute, one day at a time.
My companion and I have become from the start, the best of friends. We found out that we had both been praying for exactly all that this companionship is--and then we were put together, and now we are linked to our fullness of potential because he has the lessons I wanted to gain, and I have what he had wanted to gain! The Lord is alwayys so wise about who He puts with who on the mission! We have had zero conflicts at all, only because we both know the correct principles of Christlike relationships and use meekness, humility, unity, love, work, and selflessness. We are soaring over what we thought we could've accomplished in many areas.
This is my favorite area so far in so many ways!
The other day we gave 9 blessings in one house! They are all now our new investigators after we taught them and committed them and got a return appointment.
The Lord has blessed us with 24 GOOD new investigators in just one week! The work here is getting very fired up. I believe we will be at least contacting each of these at least once this week, plus those we already had, so this week's lesson count and meaningful power of each lesson should surpass 25 and we will be giving Baptismal Commitments and giving ALL we have.
I have grown more than I could have imagined, and am still growing.
I always say this, but that really is because it always is true, but this week was the best week of my mission so far BECAUSE of how me and Elder Luatua followed the 4 keys of success I mentioned a few emails ago, with all our effort and relying on the Lord's help--and we are seeing the results in every aspect of the work in all 3 wards!
My favorite part of my mission at the moment is my companion. We are perfectly brothers and I found one of the truly best friend I've had in my life yet, and we have SOOO much we are learning from each other. We are fully committed to the Savior--and His works are being manifest in everything we do.
President, thank you for sending me here. We are transforming these 3 wards together, and consecrating ourselves only to the Savior's work here has tied us to Heavenly Father's vision and power.
I have been so humbled to witness more miracles than I knew were possible to happen. . . I've never given more priesthood blessings in one week than in this week--maybe 15 in one week... I lost count. I has taught me that the Lord knows us individually, and loves us fully, and will send us the help we need and then it is up to us to connect to Christ and take action.
Heavenly Father has given me the gift of overwhelming love for every individual in my area. Individuals are ready, even if I just walk by them on the street--the Holy Ghost tells me who is one of the 48 left, and He is leading us to EACH ONE! He is truly providing us with A LOT OF WORK... a WHOLE lot. There is more potential, and we're living to see it all realized.
We won't leave one soul without opportunity while we yet have the power to say a silent prayer and then take immediate bold action to open our mouth and be who we were destined to be--disciples of the Christ.
This is the path of a fullness of joy. This path has your name on it.
Connect to Christ fully. That is your mission--and if you choose to accept it with all your heart, it will make you 901273458912347540895174534xmore out of you than you ever even knew was half impossibly possible.
This picture was right after 2am when our car was broken into by a gang in our new neighborhood. :) We enjoyed it so much and were only positively affected by it.
I have never worked harder or more nonstop in my life. And I think I have worked hard all my life... but the work I am now fully diving into with my whole being and heart--is more than any I've ever had.
THIS WAS THE FASTEST WEEK OF MY LIFE!!!
Every week of the mission is a blur and a haze that feels unbelievably fast...but this week surpasses all prior weeks of my mission so far. We cover the most work I know of in the mission so far, and we are constantly engaged in saving people in real ways, and leading them to eternal exaltation. People are truly coming unto Christ and we are truly coming to know Him deeper than every before.
We have no time to write in our journals, write letters to family or all the beloved eternal friendships we have established in the other parts of the nation we have already served in, we sometimes don't even have time to eat! A spare minute has become an extinct thing in my life--and I LOVE IT!!! Thrive is the word that describes what a mission will make of anyone that fully engages themselves all the way to it. Likewise what Christ will make of anyone that gives themselves all the way to Him with no reservations. He is the master of writing the best stories the book of our life could become. Let's hand the pen over to the Hand of the best friend our souls and destinies have--and that's Jesus Christ!
We serve over the first LDS ward that was ever established in Fiji, along with Suva 3rd, and Nasinu 2nd Wards. Well over 1,000 individuals, but only serving one person at a time as Christ would. There are real needs in this world--and they lie in the lives of the next few people you are going to see today within the next hour, those who you'll sit next to on the bus, the one who God tells you in your heart to help--everyone. The work we each have from God is just to help one person now... always be loving and brightening the spirits and eternal prospects of somebody...at all times.
The time we got doesn't last; it goes fast.
The power is in just making now a moment of light and service to your Heavenly Father. Just make now all it can be, and that practice by itself automatically makes the long run become something amazing to look back on and then build up from, so we reach endless progress and deeper levels of joy and celestial vision.
This picture is me in my new front yard.
And this is a Fijian nativity one of our friends made by HAND and sells to anyone around the world or just right here in Fiji. Ask me about it if you're interested :)
The Lord really does provide for his servants--any of us who will, may. The title servant of the Lord isn't "Missionary," it is you and all who choose the highest way of life--Christ's way. If we are giving our all to Him, we can ask and see His all showering upon us. We're all welcome to rely on Him for all the needs we have, for He can magnify and strengthen and enable us to all that we can become. All He requires is a willing heart that asks and then has the plain simple faith to look up and forward and take the action wherein lies the power.
We were blessed with a dinner last night, in which were CHICKEN FEET! I love the new experiences of life that it endlessly gives us as we just give it another step forward.
When we were told by Heavenly Father that there were at least 48 people in this area who were ready to be found and brought unto Him, we took up the challenge as a step in the dark. It was a step in the dark--but the Lord has stepped forward to meet us in the effort we'll be willing to consecrate unto His causes. IN JUST A WEEK, He led us miraculously to 24 new investigators who He led us to. That surprised us because it is exactly half of the number Heavenly Father told Elder Luatua and I. And it has only been a week!
One example of how unusual and inexplicably divine the inspiration is that leads us to these prepared individuals; is, that the other day we were driving around trying to find a referral we had received from the members here, and Elder Luatua directed me to drive to a house and told me that the people we needed to see were in the hidden basement of this house directly to our right. We got out of the car and walked to the gate. And, how you call people out to meet you is never by door bell (those don't exist). We call out "Auntie!" or "Uncle!" (which is what you call any Hindi person who is an older adult,) and then they come out and meet you at the gate.
Well, a man came out to us, told us he was the landlord of the house and would go downstairs and bring up the tenants who stayed below. A woman came up and we asked if she held the name we were looking for. She said no, and indeed we had come to the incorrect house. She was very closed and was trying to get us to leave.
It would have been easy for us to just say, "sorry, thank you. We got the wrong house and understand you don't want us." But, Heavenly Father told us that isn't good enough--in our hearts we chose to step forward in our love for these His beloved eternal children. As we kept taking interest and simple friendship in this dear woman, her elderly mother hobbled up the stars with purpose in her eyes and curiosity in her countenance. She called out, "Don't go. I want you to come teach me."
We came in and went down to this home and established a friendship with this family. Everything transformed from them being closed and there appearing to perhaps be no potential, to them loving us, listening to a powerful lesson, really, really being interested, opening up all the way, telling us that they are going to come to our church this next week and that the young man in their family hasn't been baptized yet and that he would like to be baptized the way Christ was baptized. They even wanted to give us the key to their gate so we could just come in any time and teach them!
What amazing things can come from just keeping on going forward and upward. Going all the way out of our comfort zone, reaches us all the way up to our potential--boundless success and satisfaction in the eternal, meaningful purposes of the Almighty in us and those our life touches.
I have now finally experienced BED BUGS!!!
It rains every day here in Suva. We got Bedbugs and needed to sun our mattresses, so the very next day, Heavenly Father miraculously gave us the first sunny day we've seen in my time here yet! We now have no bedbugs!
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