Killing our Goals

This is Naca!  He's 17, and is working toward baptism and serving a 2 year mission as well!

 This week, Heavenly Father gave us 6 new beloved children of His who are golden and fully prepared!  They all want to be Baptized and 2 of THEM aalllsssooo want to serve 2 year missions to share this glorious restored and beautiful truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  The world is ready to rise up and follow the Savior! 

We just have to love them, ask for Heavenly Father's help, receive the Savior's enabling power, and simply with unrestrained joy and happiness, invite them, one at a time. 

They know this church is true and they already feel the incredible blessings and truth the Father has blessed their souls to feel.

This area is literally exploding with miracles!

We are hitting and overachieving ALL of our goals!

In fact, we're KILLING all of the goals Heavenly Father has told us to make!

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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A loving Heavenly Father (Part 2: Prayer)

So, Life.  What's it all about?  Why is it?  And how can we make the most of it?

How do we individually and personally reach Life @ it's Fullest?

​We approach our loving Heavenly Father, and give our lives to Him.  

And mean it.  Trust His love.  Feed all the light and good and faith and joy and divinity and righteousness and happiness inside of you!  Feed it and starve ALL the bad.

What does He do then?

He Himself can then teach us.

How?

This gospel of Jesus Christ.

The beauty and perfection of the gospel God our loving Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ, restored in our day and age--personally and permanently, to bless the lives of all the children of God.

I would like to suggest that life at its fullest is accessed very largely through prayer.

​This is a picture my companion took without me knowing.  We had had a long day, and this restaurant didn't have anything but expensive cola drinks and juices.  We wanted water, but they didn't have any.  We walked over to our table and sat down.  Heavenly Father heard our prayers and desires.  A waitress walked over and surprised us by giving us a jug full of water, and two cups!

It was a small thing, but it impacted us hugely and we felt our Heavenly Father's love and kindness. 

I stopped what I was doing and immediately thanked Him.

He hears us.

He always hears us.

The Bible Dictionary says this about Prayer:

As soon as we learn the true relationship in which we stand toward God (namely, God is our Father, and we are His children), then at once prayer becomes natural and instinctive on our part (Matt. 7:7–11). Many of the so-called difficulties about prayer arise from forgetting this relationship. Prayer is the act by which the will of the Father and the will of the child are brought into correspondence with each other. The object of prayer is not to change the will of God but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is already willing to grant but that are made conditional on our asking for them. Blessings require some work or effort on our part before we can obtain them. Prayer is a form of work and is an appointed means for obtaining the highest of all blessings.

There are many passages in the New Testament that teach the duty of prayer (Matt. 7:7; 26:41; Luke 18:1; 21:36; Eph. 6:18; Philip. 4:6; Col. 4:2; 1 Thes.5:17, 25; 1 Tim. 2:1, 8). Christians are taught to pray in Christ’s name (John14:13–14; 15:7, 16; 16:23–24). We pray in Christ’s name when our mind is the mind of Christ, and our wishes the wishes of Christ—when His words abide in us (John 15:7). We then ask for things it is possible for God to grant. Many prayers remain unanswered because they are not in Christ’s name at all; they in no way represent His mind but spring out of the selfishness of man’s heart.

Book of Mormon references on prayer include 1 Ne. 18:3; Alma 34:17–28;Ether 2:14.

A Loving Heavenly Father -- You have to SEE this!

Ni Sa Bula Vinaka!!!

This week, I want to try to get you a few good  pictures right off:

This is what Fijian's in our village love to do in their spare time

And this....

...is our [Christmas] house!

These are a few of the hilarious, mischievous, beautiful little cute Fijian children in my area.

This is Me in a Tree.  I hope to live here soon.

And these are Fijian children I taught to breakdance.

This is a huge storm coming our way.  We had more this week than probably any week yet. It was AWESOME! :)

Ilaitia, climbing a vuniniu(coconut tree,) to get my first ever authentic Fijian coconut.

And this is me drinking it!

These are sad children.  They are hilarious! I love them!

These are beautiful!!!  What more need I say?

This is a Fijian warrior(Ilaitia) 

This is a delicious Fijian meal with his family^

OOps!!! That's two horses and a boy who randomly walked into our front yard while we were studying.

THIS :) is the meal...

And this is a spider as big as my hand.  It lives with us.  My companion screamed like a girl and chopped a few of its legs off the other day though.  I haven't named it yet. 

What should I name it??

My little buddies!!! Playing around after spending all day gardening and working and singing out in the hot sun.

Another cool picture of the boys jumping the bridge

A picture of how sweaty I am all the time, and my friend in the backround. 

These are pictures of us before and after working in the fields.  I sang in Fijian the whole time and worked hard.  So fun!  Learned a lot about Fijian agriculture! 

I am proud to say I am indeed gaining weight!  Haha! Zero fat though.  The Fijian life and diet is perfect for muscle building!  In the flat every day, we wake up and lift buckets of water and do pull ups on the wood ceiling beams, and do pushups and ghetto workouts!  You don't need a gym! Just like I said every day with my Facebook Fitness Page!  No excuses! Just choices.

 

More working in the fields

Sele!  (Fijian Jungle Sword!)