Bula vinaka everyone!
Well it was another good week. Alot of hard work, alot of ups and downs but overall I really feel like we are doing our best to be succesful, and that's what matters! Love this Mission!
Ok so for Monday we had our first Zone P-day together! So we went up to Lautoka, a city about 25 minutes north of us and met all the elders and sisters in our zone. (about 24 in total) and played games and all that good stuff outside. Wow it was so much fun. It was my first real experience playing rugby, and I'm pretty much obsessed. SOOOO much fun. It's like all the good things about football mixed with the speed of play of lacrosse. So ya I was pretty much in Heaven. SOOOOOOO SWEEET. I attached a picture of our zone. It's funny because there are only like 8 people from the states out of 24. Alot of people from the islands which is so much fun!
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| Me and Elder Mokie at zone Pday |
Tuesday we had our first Zone training meeting and wow it was awesome. We get taught by our zone leades about how to become better missionaries, and its just so cool. They are such great missionaries, and I really got to see first hand the type of missionary I wanted to become. After ZTM me and my companion had exchanges with the Zone leaders. I was way nervous because I'm just this new missionary going out on splits for the day with a zone leader but it was way good. He's been out for a year, so we actually graduated in the same class which was pretty cool, and he's from Utah, we got along way well and did some good work.
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| Me and Elder Johnson, the zone leader, on splits |
Wensday we switched back companions and we had a way cool experience. We were going to share a lesson to two kids who have been taking the discussions and been awesome. Their mom is a member but their dad doesn't want them to be baptized so that's the problem. Anyways we got there and only the mom was home and we noticed all their big water tanks were empty. We asked her about them and she said that their water had gone out and she didn't know how they were going to get water. So we took the water tanks from them and drove them to the church and filled them all up for them and then drove them back. Wow you should have seen the looks on their faces. It was so cool that I was able to be used as a tool in my Heavenly Father's hands to help one of his children in need. It also made me so grateful for the things I have at home. These people were so grateful for three tanks of semi clean water, while at home we have swimming pools of clean water. Wow just so crazy....
Yesterday was Father's Day here in Fiji. So after church we headed over to this families house and had a massive feed, with like 4 whole chickens and tons of other Fijian food! It was so fun because here in Fiji you don't eat with utensils, just your hands. Man so loud and so much fun!
I don't have much time, so just one more story for the week. We have a guy and girl investigator that are just so awesome. They aren't married but because they want to be baptized they are getting married this week, so that will be way cool! Anyways it was pouring rain on Sunday morning but we still really wanted them to come to church so we decided to go check on them. When we got there we just gave them our umbrellas so they could get there not soaking wet. We came to find out later that day that that morning that couple was talking about how they wanted umbrellas to walk to church with. The husband told the wife to use pretty much their last 7 dollars to go buy an umbrella, but the wife insisted and said she would just go soaking wet. Right at this instant we showed up and gave them umbrellas. Man it was soo cool to see that God loves all his children so much. Even just for a little thing such as getting them umbrellas to walk to church with, he cares about and finds ways to help them with their needs. I can testify to you all that this church is true and God truly does live and care about us all!
Well It was a great week. I love this mission so much. Thanks everyone for all your support that you give to me. Love you all!
Elder Mumford
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