"I Know His Face"

बुला विनका ! 

Summarized: Sweaty Blood Tears. Category 5 Hurricane sent our nation back 2 centuries temporarily. We had to mobilize into emergency mode and I had to secure save the lives of missionaries under my stewardship. We were locked down in our house afraid the windows would explode.  It sounded like a massive wave ready to pound on the beach just before it slams down in impact, except that that sound never stopped.  Dog bit my eyeball.  You have no idea the truths that have been revealed, the miracles that have taken place, the power that has hit this nation, and the amount of souls coming  unto Christ in the work here. I have no power to convey it to you through typed words only your eyes can see. If you could be present with me! Oh if you could see! I would have to go deeper than any of these communication channels can convey.  A living prophet of God who speaks with Him face to face, visited us, rivetted me with a constant stare from a distance of just less than 10 feet for 15 minutes, and angels were round about us in glorious celebrations and dangerous evacuations.  I will try to share what I am able and allowed to. 

I can say that there is a bigger perspective of this life you are in and living than you ever thought.  You will come to wake up just as soon as you'll be willing and humble enough to be ready and see the big eternal realities of eternity. If you haven't already, you will have the faith to seek out from Missionaries serving like me.  We have sacrificed our lives and all we are, and our very futures and every hour of 2 years, and 10,000 beads of sweat and 10,000 tons of love, aching, care, passion that consume our whole hearts and being...  here to help you be ready and to know The Savior, Jesus the Living Christ--the Creator of everything we know.  A day of drastic change and transformation is the one you and I are to now.  We must come unto the Savior Jesus Christ now and find Him--for now I know and must call out to every reach of the globe: He is an actual living, breathing, talking, physical, glorious, eternal resurrected personage of love and reality.  This message I am 12,000km away from home sharing for 2 years is not a story or something I have one shadow of doubt about in any reach of my entire being.  I raise my voice unto all the world: the message I share is true.  This church and gospel haven't been restored by any person--my message really is direct from God the Eternal Father and Jesus Christ.  They are real, actual Beings that are familiar to your heart and soul.  

​My companion and I have about 20 amazing people who this and next month are coming unto the Savior Jesus Christ and knowing and following His voice out of the hurricane of darkness, fear and death, unto the perfect light of this Restored Fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ which is only found in this His church. 

President Henry B. Eyring came and personally visited us missionaries in a chapel just before the worst parts of the class 5 hurricane.  He made and kept almost non-stop eye contact with me and said things like, "after your mission, you won't take the badge off.  You have been endowed with power beyond anything you've ever imagined. You will feel the joy that comes from this."  He and Elder Cook of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles shared things that transcend this world and that this world can't receive.  President Eyring shared the most powerful words I have ever heard any living General Authority of the Church speak.  After sharing that there were many things that they can't share in public, the spirit filled the room and each of us more powerfully as the wind picked up and the Prophet was shaking and weeping.  He shared these powerful words that then became forever etched into the walls of my eternal soul and heart:  "I know The Savior.  I know His voice, and I know His face."  The things that the Prophet shared were the same things I had been learning from God in my personal conversations with Him over the past 2 years.  It is amazing to see the Holy Ghost speaks the same language and messages to all who will seek and hear, heed and surrender all their very will and life and soul to the Savior.  I know that the eyes that looked into mine that day are indeed and in reality eyes that have looked into Jesus Christ's very eyes and held conversation with Him in our day.  The message of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, is the only message that will lead unto all that the human family came to earth to know, become, achieve and receive as eternal family in fullness of lasting, rich, deep, true joy in this life and in eternities unending.  I seal you my special witness since I have been preserved alive:  I challenge you to accept the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and be Baptized in the Lord's church.  Anyone that reads these words is reading them because God has led them to be reading them.  I give my life and name up unto the world and heaven as a bold testator that the message that young boy received in a grove of trees from God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ, is true.  Joseph Smith was a true Prophet, and Thomas S Monson is in reality God's channel to this earth.  I don't have faith and I don't believe... I know that the message I have been taking unto this nation and shall take forward all my eternities to come, is true.  You have one chance to find that out for yourself and act on it.  I invite you to do just that, even today.  And for each of us who think we have a strong enough testimony of those things--rise higher.  You and I don't have limits.  We are children of the Almighty.  You are the only one who can limit yourself.  Rise to what you've never dreamed of.  Keep your covenants and promises with the Lord and don't just give more of your time, talents, will and being--give it all.  I seal my testimony in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

_Elder Howard

Suva Fiji Mission

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Climb to Perfection

This week there have been 8 souls that have come unto Christ through the Covenant of Baptism.


I also got proposed to again.  This time was definitely the weirdest though!  She kept trying to kiss my hand and it was way freaky.  We got out of there fast! 



took this picture from a member's balcony.  Our flat is in this photo.  
On the left side^ to the right of the towers.  This is the area where we live and work daily.

We in the Mission here, assisted with the US Navy Hospital Ship Mercy during the past few weeks. This ship provided medical care to the people of Fiji at no cost. Several LDS medical professionals from the states volunteered their time to serve on the ship for the past two weeks. The ship also brought in a significant amount of supplies donated by the Church to help the people here in Fiji. 

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A miracle from this week: 

My whole district needed to get to this above shown hospital--and we had to get there straight away but we had no transport.  So, the Lord told me to pray that a transport would be sent our way by the Lord.  A few minutes later, there came a transport that had the perfect amount of seats!  It was a rare miracle to have one of those pass us just when we needed--but, thing was, that, it was overtaking a bus at the same time as it passed us, so it couldn't see that we needed help.  

The blue transport van was now long gone and in the distance, but the Lord prompted me gently, that I needed to pray again.  He told me in my heart and in my mind, to pray that the driver would be told by Heavenly Father, to turn around and pick us up.  

I prayed that directly and immediately. 

I felt perfect faith and trust because I had been prompted what to pray. 

And a minute later, we all saw to our extreme surprise, that exact blue transport coming back our way for no reason!  He stopped and we all got in and talked with him.  He was very tired and worked, but had heeded the Lord's voice to him to turn around. 

He took us to the hospital and we were able to get there on time!  

It was a great miracle, that none of us could deny.  It was not a miracle to prove  our faith, but a result of first exercising faith in-line and in accordance with Heavenly Father's will. 

I testify that we can ask Heavenly Father to guide us in what to pray for; and then, we can truly pray in Christ's name, for we are only praying for things which Christ would righteously ask for--and so we shall indeed receive according to our faith and our works.  We will receive every righteous desire of our hearts, if we align ourselves and then have the faith to ask and act. 

I know this is true.  I witness it daily. 

Heavenly Father is more real than these words before your face at this moment.  I can testify of Him to you as if He were before my eyes all day every day.  I know as a fact which I never shall be able to deny, that He really, truly does live and is personal and knowable and intimately aware of each one of us, His beloved children in these brief testing grounds of mortality. 

This was a dinner that a member family made for us last week.  This is a "Lovo"; a traditional Fijian-style of preparing and cooking really tasty food which they then put underground in a hand-made oven and throw dirt over the oven to capsulize the heat and leave it like that for over an hour. 

We had a 9-year old boy named Ryan who is beginning to read the Book of Mormon and right after we taught him how to pray, he confidently and humbly prayed on the spot! 


We have many young people here, who because of the work and lessons the Lord did through me and my companion and especially the power of the Holy Ghost, are all preparing to serve their full-time missions as well!

 We have been fasting for Shayal to get consent from her father to be Baptized.  She is one of the best investigators, and earnest daughters of Heavenly Father.  She is 15 and she is reading the Book of Mormon and taking the lessons, but her father is Hindu, and we have been fasting and praying that his heart would be softened and he would let his family be Baptized and follow the Savior Jesus Christ.  

Please pray for that in your prayers. 

Thank you soo much. 

“It is written in the scriptures that God so loved the world that he gave his Only Begotten Son to die for the world, that whosoever believeth on him … and keepeth his commandments, shall be saved. But this [sacrifice] did not cost us very much—freely given are all these glorious privileges. …

“… While we give nothing, perhaps, for this atonement and this sacrifice, nevertheless, it has cost someone something, and I love to contemplate what it cost our Father in heaven to give us the gift of his beloved Son, … who so loved the world that he laid his life down to redeem the world, to save us and to feed us spiritually while we walk in this life, and prepare us to go and dwell with him in the eternal worlds. …

“Our Father in heaven … loved his Son Jesus Christ, … for [he] had with him his Son, our Redeemer, in the eternal worlds, faithful and true for ages. … God heard the cry of his Son in that moment of great grief and agony, in the garden when … he cried out: ‘Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me.’ …

“… He saw that Son condemned, he saw him drag the cross through the streets of Jerusalem and faint under its load. … He saw [Jesus’] body stretched out upon the wooden cross, he saw the cruel nails driven through hands and feet, and the blows that broke the skin, tore the flesh … and let out the life’s blood of his Son. …

“In that hour I think I can see our dear Father, … his great heart almost breaking for the love that he had for his Son. Oh, in that moment when he might have saved his Son, I thank him and praise him that he did not fail us, for he had not only the love of his Son in mind, but he had love for us, and I rejoice that he did not interfere, and that his love for us made it possible for him to endure to look upon the sufferings of his Son and give him finally to us, our Savior and our Redeemer. …

“… My brethren and sisters, … if I only knew how essential it was … that I should receive the spiritual life that comes from that Son, I am sure I would always be present at the sacrament table to do honor to the gift that has come unto us” (“The Sacramental Covenant,”Improvement Era, Oct. 1919, 1028–31).

This week we had another miracle:

You may remember her as Mohini, but it turns out her real name is "Priti." She was one of our investigators.  She disappeared and we lost contact with her.  Well, the other day as we were walking along the road coming back from helping a family build their house, we had planned for so many things and lessons that all fell through and didn't happen... and on top of that, for some reason we decided to walk all the way home instead of taking bus or taxi.  And as we were walking, I had the distinct impression from the Holy Ghost that we needed to check one specific house and see if Priti lived there.  We had no idea, but we followed the Spirit.  

When we called out to the owners of the house to see if anyone lived there by chance, by the name of "Priti or Mohini," and 30 seconds later we were blown away and amazed... she called out to us and came walking out from behind the house!!  It was her!!! Only the Lord knew where she lived!! And only following the Holy Ghost's whisper could lead us to find her once again! 

We sat down with her and it turned out we saved her life.  She was about to make a decision in her life that would have destroyed and dashed all her hopes of a celestial and joyful future.  The Lord spoke through us and we were very bold and told what to say from the Holy Ghost.  It was truly undeniable--we all felt the actual presence and acknowledged that indeed hosts of actual angels were in our midst, and the Lord Himself.  

She has now been changing her life.  

It turned out that she had just been having a conversation with Heavenly Father, through aloud prayer to Him, in her house, asking for help, right when we then came up to this house and called her name. 

She has since begun finally coming to church and committed to be Baptized and to live Heavenly Father's way, and is on the path to establishing a possible eternal and family in the foreseeable future.  These are steps I could hardly imagine she would ever reach the point of taking! 

Her uncle, Naresh, has given up smoking and grown in faith from not knowing anything about Jesus Christ or who Heavenly Father even is, to now having the faith to change his life, and he is smiling more and he is giving up his old ways and knows the Savior is real and loves and knows him individually and personally.  He will be Baptized next month. 

The Police Officer who lost her dear husband, is doing well.  We are teaching her and she is so touched by the truth of the doctrine of eternal marriage and families.  She on her own said she wants to start coming to church. We teach her on the job, so this last time, we had to abruptly end because she had to go save someone from being beaten to death a few streets away. 

Heavenly Father wanted me to experience this earth life.  I am glad I signed up for all these trials I have had.  I realized as me and my companion were talking, that if we look back on our lives, the only real times that grew us and advanced us and developed and refined us and prepared us for higher heights in the future, were trials.  Really, life is no joy without the ability to choose above our circumstances.  

My Hindi is peaked now.  I am able to understand everything anyone says, and I am able to convey nearly any idea I wish to express.  Elder Singh has taught me how to teach others the language, and he has told me that my language skills are perfect.  I will continue to rely on the Lord.  He has magnified me and with my 4 companions' help (Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, and Elder Singh,) I have mastered Hindi and am ready to teach it freely--speaking, reading, writing; the Lord has given all these gifts, and I acknowledge fully that they have come from Him.  

All of our investigators are nearly ready to receive Baptismal Dates.  Our Recent Converts are strong, self-reliant, and decided they are determined and set to serve their full-time mission as well!  Soni and Kirti (baptisms from last month) are so strong.  Soni's husband and Kirti's father has returned and their family is being put back together and we've begun the long road to their goal of eternal family- temple marriage! 

We truly watched miracles in our 24 lessons this week!  

I personally have grown drastically in my time here in Lautoka.  The investigators have transformed and are blossoming!  The members are thriving in their unity and testimonies day by day.  The language was fully mastered here.  I am in love with Lautoka and the children of God here are strong. 

"Blessedness is defined as being higher than happiness.  Happiness comes from without and is dependent on circumstances; blessedness is an inward fountain of joy in the soul itself, which no out ward circumstances can seriously affect."

Exact obedience is the most rewarding aspect of mission life, and post mission life.  I am very pleased that my mind and heart learned this lesson.  

I am seeing the blessings. 

https://www.lds.org/manual/new-testament-teacher-manual/the-gospel-according-to-st-matthew/lesson-3-matthew-5-7?lang=eng

I have nothing to prove.  I am confident and humble and usable and exactly obedient. AND IT IS FUN! 

हमर डील से , एल्डर होवार्ड 

3 Sharks! 10 Joy! 1 License! Hindi Materials!

Aap Log Kaise Hai!!! Bahuut suundarr iss Jiwan!  Hum log bahuut juloom, auld sub cheej acha hai!


From the land of every beauty, and every language,

Konichi Wa!  Bula Vinaka!  Mauri!  Namaste!  Hello!  Rite hai! 


This week, we were in the market in town, and were just going to grab a few things and share the gospel with everyone... and then the Lord blessed us to get really really cheap good deals on everything, so we were able to get a whole lot of fresh veggies and fruit, and...

3 Sharks! 


We were stunned and surprised to see them being sold in the market.  

We stopped and stared... and then said, "Well, let's try a new experience!" And we bought this one gray shark, and 2 hammer-head sharks, all for 5 dollars!

We continued walking on with 3 fins all popping out of our bags, and as we went, a Fijian man stopped us and asked us if we know how to prepare them and cook them.  We said we didn't have a clue.  He gave us a bunch of advice that didn't actually help us, but, we got to spend a long time together talking about the gospel, and he was so happy!  The gospel would have never come to him if we hadn't bought 3 sharks.

We're going back to share with him again in a few days because he wants to read what we gave him and learn so much more.

The Lord works in mysterious ways :)

We got home after sharing the gospel with a whole bunch of other people including our Taxi drivers and everyone who Heavenly Father prepared to be taught by us.  Once we were home, we had to leave the sharks sitting in our sink to stink, because we had lessons and meetings to get to right away.

When we came back, I said a prayer and then Heavenly Father guided and inspired me as to how to properly gut and clean and prepare the sharks.  I was amazed at how incredible all of His sacred and beautiful creations are in this world.  

The sharks are all gutted, cleaned, chopped up, in our freezer, and ready to eat over the next few weeks!

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I have learned how to drive!  I even drove all over all the back-roads and learned everything about stick and the Lord has magnified all my abilities! Plus, I'm confident now and will be getting my license on Wednesday.

I can now understand literally almost everything Hindi people say.  I have now learned the language, and I can lead lessons, teach lessons, answer questions, interpret, read some, write some, ask questions, go on splits where Elder Moka isn't even there to help me in Hindi.  He has made me self sufficient to stand on my own 2 feet in the Hindi program and in most everything in our companionship.  We are thriving in our closeness with each other and with all our investigators.  

I have been speaking near fluently and effortlessly in all 3 languages every day.  I can switch between Eng., Fijian and Hindi easily and people understand and enjoy my languages.  I am very serious about the work and am progressing faster and higher than ever thanks to Heavenly Father.  I have no limits when I'm powered and enabled by Him, and that's exactly what has happened. 

We are picking up more and more Hindi investigators.  They don't speak much English, so our Hindi speaking is truly sprouting and thriving and flourishing by the day. I am ready to move the kingdom forward in every way the Lord can use me.

Elder Moka and I have such a beyond strong, and perfect, close friendship.  We're more than companions.  We are more than best friends.  We are perfectly unified, in all the indescribable ways me and Elder Nawahine were, and in some other ways too.  This has become the most flourishing relationship of laughter, respect, perfect unity, happiness, selfless service and enjoyment I've had my whole mission so far.  We love each other.  We pray together every hour of the day almost.  Every night and every morning, we pray, and then at the end of the day we hug each other sincerely and we always tell each other we love each other and do nothing at all but edify and compliment and build up and improve each other.  I have the best companion!!!!! 

I am ready for anything the Lord wants! ^_^

We finally got Hindi materials!! In sanscrip hindi symbols!! Pure hindi!  Pamphlets and Book of Mormons are flying out to people now every day!  We are so excited about these brand new materials that have now started to come for the first time ever!  We are using them and the people are so appreciative of them!! 

The Lord is flooding us with golden investigators!!  

Me and Elder Moka; we love you, we love the Lord, we are eager to do all He requires of us. 

In the next couple weeks we will be having an incredible Open House and Devotional for the whole of Lautoka to come tour our Chapel and know what the Church is all about in focuses like Family, Service, Chirst-like Lifestyle, etc.  It's going to be a huge success.  We are so grateful.


I had someone throw a balloon at my face, and it didn't pop.  Haha!


Here is something I read this week about Gratitude:

PLEASE READ IT!   IT'S TOO GOOD NOT TO READ! 

Confuse Every Trial: Smile!

This week, we had a problem with someone we are teaching.  They made choices that have hurt us a lot.  I can't say details, but to watch them choose to fall, was one of the darkest and saddest points of my mission.  But, now I can testify that fasting works.  Fasting turned this darkest point of my mission, right over to the very brightest and excruciatingly joyful point of my mission yet.

That point topped all pains.  And when I handed it over to the Savior, He turned it around to top most ALL joys I've ever had in my life.

I testify of what the Atonement of Jesus Christ can do.  

Because of Him, all dark, sad, painful, can be turned around for joy and hope and positive change.  

I am now coming to the Savior in ways beyond what I've ever known.  Jesus Christ and I really are now becoming as close as He always hoped and yearned for. And though I get to experience His pain at watching Heavenly Father's children make sometimes painful wrong choices, I know that is part of coming to know His depth of love.  

I fasted for everything this week... we have so many struggles and challenges and people making painful decisions in their lives. Things here in the mission, and things at home.  I testify that fasting works true and undeniable miracles.  I testify Heavenly Father is there.  He is living and literal and personal.  His plans are the best. 

I have received perfect peace and joy in the midst of every kind of circumstance, pain, trial, challenge, turn of events and all emotions and situations.  And I can testify that He hears every word of your prayers.  And I can testify that we can have true, rich, shining, full, lasting, deep, real, tangible joy and happiness and peace regardless of our circumstances.

That comes through turning to Christ and living His gospel with all our hearts in all things.  Then all things only effect us positively.  

In this work, all we need to do is be ready to be used.  It is the Holy Ghost that does all the work through us.  This work really isn't mine.  It really isn't me.  I'm His hands.

At the beginning of Tuesday, it was the darkest day of my mission yet.  And by the end of the day, literally everything had 100% switched around to the most exquisite joy I've had on my mission yet.  And through it all, I was joyful.

Fasting changed everything.  It changed people's attitudes.  It filled my hungry soul.  It is one way to empty yourself of unrighteousness so you can be filled with the Holy ghost.  Fasting is the way to "hunger and thirst after righteousness," as the Savior taught. 

Salvation is certainly not a cheap experience at all.  It is joyful.  It is exhilarating.  It is our work and our glory, to work with the Father to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of His children.

At the end of the day, the Lord had worked everything for good; and people's hearts and situations were on the path to being changed fully.  When we walked in the door at the end of the day, we fell on our knees and cried unto the Lord, praising and thanking Him, with overflowing souls and hearts.  

It'll be interesting to see how the Celestial Kingdom can top this joy I felt.  Yet I know it's a reality awaiting.  My joy tank is brimmed and stocked for years!  Haha! It was joy I didn't know mortals were capable of experiencing!  

This work requires everything. 

And I'm willing to give it.

Love is my motive.

Because He Lives; I can do all things.

Why I'm 8000 miles from home

​We're teaching some cannibals, and they had me for dinner the other night! 

This week has been LITERALLY nothing but miracles! 

 The language fully clicked for the first time this week! I've had dreams in Fijian!  I talk to everyone in Fijian and I'm forgetting how to speak English!  I'm getting darker and darker, and this food beats all American food except Susan Howard's!-- (my dear angel divine glorious beautiful Mother!) 

First time the language Fully Clicked:

We got on the bus on Monday after doing needed shopping and sharing the gospel and lifting and blessing and brightening people's lives, and I got on and initially went to a specific seat in the back half of the bus.  But then Heavenly Father told me that I needed to sit up by a lady near the front of this crowded bus.  It was amazing, because people were pouring in, but didn't sit next to her.  It was miraculous how her seat was preserved for me.  I acted on the prompting.  We talked for a good 30 minutes in just Fijian, about everything about me and everything about her.  We had talked for this long, and the bus hadn't even started going yet.  So, the Lord told me to share the gospel with her to bless her life.  We talked about her family, and the deep joy and happiness our Heavenly Father desires we all receive through His plan.  I went through the entire Restoration, and Book of Mormon and bore my testimony and we had amazing, deep conversations about her family and her feelings and life!  It was amazing!  The Lord blessed me to completely speak fluent Fijian!  It rolled out without effort!  She understood everything I said! I didn't have to translate in my head or anything--it truly rolled out with ease!  I shared with her, talking non-stop for about an entire long hour of just sharing the gospel and being super happy and enjoying each other!

I'm fluent!

Thanks to Heavenly Father--not myself.  He is a great giver of good gifts to all His children who will ask and then work to be fully one with Him so He can be unrestrained in pouring out enabling help and power.  Do His work, and you have His joy and power and are one with Him. 

We can all do this!

In our lives, there are things we can do to be one with Him in His work.  When we lay down our pride and our will, we pick up His power and His ridiculous happiness, purpose and meaning in life!

I have experienced it first hand every single day here! 

​Cucumber invites you!  Join Heavenly Father in His work.  Come unto Christ!  There is no greater happiness than when your all is given over to Him, fully and unrestrained and unreservedly!

It's to the point now where with effort and exertion, I look hard for any place or degree where I don't plainly, veillessly, undeniably & obviously see Heavenly Father's hand in my life.  There's not a single smallest detain or thing where I can't plainly see His hand, undeniably!  My whole soul and Being marvels and sings!

​Not that the windows of my Father's full and bounteous blessings just barely opened; but that my eyes just barely did.  By practice and prayers asking and petitioning Him for such, it's growing in greater degree than ever, every day! EVERY NEW DAY!

I used to try hard each day to see His hand.  Now by practice and His enabling gift and blessing--there's nowhere I DON'T see it plain as day and clear as all the passages of beautiful eternity!

Every new day, I'm not satisfied with all the improvement and good and progress I made yesterday and the depth of my oneness with Christ and the Father, through my Savior's help and enabling power.

I wake up, smile super ridiculously big and look my soul square in the eye, and look myself in the mirror and say,

"Old me, welcome to the new me.  This is the new me; the Lord will lead me to higher ground than I've ever been on."

And then He does!

There hasn't been a single day here, that wasn't better than the last!  

Each day LITERALLY is better than the last!

That is how the Gospel blesses my life; it allows me to be on a never ending, upward climb of joy, regardless of my circumstances, trials and difficulties... in fact!: It's BECAUSE of and through those joyful difficulties and trials and circumstances!

This is life at its fullest!  And fuller every day!

So many sorrows and challenges and Goliath's and trials every day! I choose to lay all of them upon the Atonement's enabling power, and choose joy and then BAM!! ALL BAD THINGS TRANSFORM FOR MY JOY AND GOOD. 

Gratitude makes literally everything minister to adding and enhancing my joys and happiness even when horrible things happen to me!
Thanks to Christ, there's nothing bad in my life--for all things are transformed for my good and joy and oneness with Him.

That's why I'm 8000miles away from home for two years doing absolutely nothing but sharing THIS message!

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Near Death and Walking on Water

I almost died this week!  

It was absolutely awesome!  

[--Editors note: Please don't freak out--] Don't get upset or fear for me or worry, because Heavenly Father's got me perfectly in His hands and the power of the Priesthood in His church is true and raised me from death.

I'll get to that though...


This is about faith. The kind Christ commands of us; the kind He knows we're capable of.  The kind that makes our lives flooded with joy and deep happiness regardless of the losses or pains or trials we all will face while in this stage of Eternal Life. 

 I've learned we really can walk on water, God has not ceased to do miracles. I can literally testify of Him, with perfect knowledge of His reality and awareness  of each of us His children, individually and perfectly.

He's ready to guide you, if you're ready to believe He can make you into something amazing.  I testify He can.  He can and will exceed your highest expectations and hopes for yourself, if you'll simply be willing to,and then with His enabling and strengthening power, GIVE YOURSELF FULLY(not somely :) to Him.

I testify this is where joy lies.

I testify this brings the kinds of miracles I'm talking about.
They're in every day and minute of YOUR life.

Will you choose to allow Him to show you 10,000 miracles?

I testify of them.

They are yours.  They are mine.  They are from a loving Father.

Our Eternal, loving, perfect, exalted, wonderful, heavenly Father.

​"Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where do we go after this life? No longer need these universal questions remain unanswered":

Read or listen to the Prophet-> http://bit.ly/1l6thS4

I cannot keep my mouth shut.  How can any of us?  
His truths are too desperately needed, and they're too true and perfect and fulfilling and soul-satisfying and sweet and precious above all that is sweet; precious above all that is precious.

No life can be all it can be, if it is lacking the answers to those questions^ three.

I feel like the prophets in the Book of Mormon who said, "I cannot write a hundreth part" of all the adventures and mindblowing and beautiful miracles that happened this week in my mission!!!!  

I WISH I had enough time!!

There are hundreds of miracles and stories and ministries that are truly mindblowing, and I have recoreded all of them in my journal, SO PLEASE FIND ME AFTER MY MISSION AND ASK ME ABOUT ALL OF THEM!!! 

PLEASE!

but I have to just skip to where I almost left this life:

BUT, first a thought:
I really feel like I may have felt the Holy Ghost & my Father's eye opening influence & presence more than... ever.  It comes when I let myself truly stop in time & fully be swallowed up in gratitude.  The realest, deepest, real gratitude for literally all things.

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I got a really bad disease. Called (of all things,) "Dangi"  

My stomach hurt more than I can describe.  I was near fainting.  I lost all energy and strength in my limbs.  I lost my appetite completely. (THAT IS SUPER WEIRD.  I ALWAYS EAT AND EAT AND NEVER GET FULL!  I'M KNOWN HERE FOR THAT)  And we had to cancel all our lessons that day, and all I could do was lay in my bed and sweat and smile and choose joy and be super ridiculously happpy! And I seriously was.  But I was dying. All my energy was sapped.  My temperature had now risen over 100Fer. degrees, and rising.  I wrote a letter to my family.  I talked with my Heavenly Father extensively.  

Then, while talking with Heavenly Father, He told me to ask my companion for a priesthood blessing https://www.lds.org/youth/article/importance-of-priesthood-blessings?lang=eng, & https://www.lds.org/search?lang=eng&country=hk%2F&query=priesthood, and so I heeded my Heavenly Father's invitation, and asked my companion, Elder Nawahine (who holds that sacred and eternal Priesthood power above described in the links provided,) and he agreed.

Here is my journal entry about exactly what then happened:

"He and I became filled with the most sacred reverence and I looked him in the eye and asked him if he felt spiritually prepared.  He went into the other room and prayed and then came back.  I read from the Doctrine and Covenants, and then we felt ready.  All day I had been getting hotter and hotter and more sick and energiless, and weak, and even lost my appetite.  But while the blessing was administed and pronounced upon me, I felt my body healing and changing in real time.  My ora and feelings and body changed.  I could feel & sense & experience all I'd lost come pouring back into me.  After the blessing, my appetite was restored! All the pain was gone!  My body and energy felt perfect and healthy and lively!  I got up, hugged my companion and thanked and praised my Heavenly Father, and went into the kitchen and ate food!!!

I slept deep and perfectly!  And the entire next day, I was more energetic than everyone around me!  I told my companion, when he finally woke up after me, 'I feel like I could run 100miles with you on my back!!"  And I did!  We were amazed. I smiled ridiculously big and talked with my Father for a long time. My praise and love and reverence for him have no bounds!  

I can say in truth, that my spirit and body have been renewed.

I testify of this Priesthood.  I know this church is true.  It holds that Priesthood authority and power that created this world, and governs the heavens and binds on earth and in heaven.  I testify of it because I have experienced it and I humbly and reverently hold it and am a bearer of it's sacred power and authority.

My Zone: 

Do you REALLY want a Miracle?

I challenge you to go out of your way & do something for the Lord.  It will bring you closer to Him, and you're the one it will bless.

​FASTING BRINGS ABOUT MIRACLES.

Faith is not willing your desires into existence.  It is finding out what the will of God is and then being at peace with what that is.
Our Branch here in the Bau Area, has been struggling so much.  We had what seemed like impossible roadblocks in nearly every aspect of the work here.  But we didn't become discouraged.  We know that Jesus Christ lives and is at the head of this church, and that if we did His work His wway and by His power, His miracles would flood this area.

We were right.

We fasted this Sunday, and that same day, EVERY PROBLEM WAS VERRRRRYMIRACULOUSLY FIXED!

WE WERE BLOWN AWAY!!!!

We came to church, and more people packed the rooms than we've ever seen before!  The Priesthood, on their own initiative, discussed and fixed all of our Branch's problems!  We're now on our way to becoming a Ward!  The ward is finally stopping drinking Grog/Kava, they're now doing their home teaching, they're reading the Book of Mormon daily, they're reaching out and bringing all the inactive and less-active members back into activity in the church, and all the halts and stops on young people here putting in their mission papers to go serve around the world, have now all been miraculously resolved and things are moving again!

I can't count the miracles!

Me and my companion were absolutely blown away!

We have many, many potential baptisms this month.  The other day, an investigator of ours, accepted my invitation to be Baptized and receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  

Miracles truly happen!

Fasting is amazing!


Heavenly Father is amazing! 


This gospel is beautiful and perfect in every way!

​So confident am I in my destiny and divine potential as a son of God, because God and I are the joint authors of my story(my eternal life)__but I'm confident all the way in it, because I gave the pen to Him and His are the hands that write it.  

HAND HIM THE PEN AND HE'LL WRITE MORE AWESOME THINGS THAN YOU HIGHEST HOPE.

I've asked myself, "at the end of my mission, what difference will I have made?  How can I leave absolutely none of my potential untouched--and literally all of it seized?"  Heavenly Father answered me:

It comes down to being positively completely different than the world.  The more positively different you are, the more of a positive difference my personal and Eternal Father can make through me!

I live each moment as the Holy Spirit tells me that moment's highest potential is; and I do that by asking Him to give me His enabling and strengthening power, for His glory and the joy and blessing of my fellow eternal brothers and sisters here on earth.  

By His power, we can do all things!

ALL our potential.

FULLness, not SOMEness of JOY!

God never gives us a commandment that isn't for our benefit; even eternal benefit.  He never gives us one single commandment that doesn't have a blessing tied to it.  Nothing He asks of us, (if obeyed from a willing and loving heart,) blesses anyone more than ourselves.  It's interesting to see that the more selfless we become, the more we receive meaningful and lasting happiness.  And the more we leave the world's motives, desires, things it lives for, the praise it loves, and the low standards it grossly rolls around in--and instead come unto ourselves and choose God's motives, desires, things He lives for, and the praise of Him and His exalted standards, the more we receive His joy and His fulness of life!

​​There are people out there only you can bless.
There are things you agreed you would do, before you came down here to earth.
There are joys that you can only know if you lose yourself all the way to Heavenly Father's better and best version of your life.

Whatever situation you ever find yourself in, 

CHOOSE JOY.

PRAY FOR HIS ENABLING STRENGTH to enable you to do His highest will for you in that moment. 

You can share His restored gospel in any and every moment you ever find yourself in, if you'll ask Him to give you His enabling and strengthening power, and then simply open your mouth, motivated only out of love for Heavenly Father and perfect love for the person you're joyfully sharin with.

Every moment you find yourself in.

Not just some.

This was the final Sunset of 2015.... 

​The best thing you can set as your goal, is something eternal.

• What's an eternal goal you can set?

• Something that will bless eternity, and make you more like your Heavenly Father.  

• Something that you will thank yourself for, all the years down the road yet to come.

• Something your future generations will bless and thank you for choosing to make of yourself?

• Something that stretches you and yet, is attainable?

Read Moroni 7:47-48, and ponder it.

This is what Heavenly Father has told me I need to make my fullest goal.  For if I posses this, then I will be one with Heavenly Father, and I will reach His full potential for me.

Next week I'll show you our Christmas house.  It's green and red.

I testify that eternal and real truth exists.

Heavenly Father wants each of His children to know the truth of this gospel, for themselves, from Him. 

The power and witness of the Holy Ghost, is real.

I testify with one of the Prophets of our day:

"The Spirit of God speaking to the spirit of man has power to impart truth with greater effect and understanding than the truth can be imparted by personal contact even with heavenly beings.  Through the Holy Ghost the truth is woven into the very fibre and sinews of the body so that it cannot be forgotten."

I testify that I know Heavenly Father lives and I KNOW with a capital K, that HE Hears YOUR prayers.  I know He restored this church, Himself, and that we are led by living prophets.  I have received my testimony of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and the sacred and holy calling the Lord has given His living prophet on the earth today, President Thomas S. Monson.  I love my Savior Jesus Christ.  He and His Atonement are literally everything to me. 

I am here to share His light.