SUP FAMILY,

So its been a great week over here in Fiji. Finally after like two weeks of straight rain the sun has been out which is pretty much all you can ask for. #SunsOutGunsOut hahaha but great week just working hard. Me and Elder Forbush are pretty much just like best friends, which is making the work so much fun. This transfer has been filled with fall throughs, which can sometimes be discouraging but this week we put it all behind us and just went hard trying to find those that want to hear the message. We have this one investigator, her names Diva. She has been coming to church and really opening up to us about her life. She is half Tongan and half Samoan but adopted into a Fijian family. She's had heart problems all growing up and just kind of a crazy life, but through it all she really is the sweetest person ever. Just so great. But this last week her adopted mom got admitted into the hospital for surgery on a boil on her lung as well as her kidney. She had surgery and was just in a really bad state and I think that kind of really had her think more of the Plan of Salvation that we taught her. This week she had to take over care for all her adopted siblings and basically just be a mom and go to school at 17. She was coming home late one night just crying and one of our members was at the bus stop when she got off. Our member doesn't even know her but she just got her to open up and Diva just opened up to our member, and ended up just staying at their house because she needed a place to stay for a few days. So amazing. but anyways Saturday night she told us the terrible news that she would be moving in the next few days. We were heartbroken because she was making such big progress. But we just kept praying for her. Sunday she went to church and felt the spirit so strong in all the classes. After church she asked us for a blessing for the things she has been going through and then after the blessing we taught her a small lesson. During the lesson she just stopped us and was like "Elders I have something I want to say. I've been thinking about it and I really want to be baptized before I move." We were just shocked. We hadn't recommended that she do that but the spirit drove her to make that choice. She has become literaly a changed person in the past week all because of her just living the gospel. Holy cow this church is so true. We will see what happens but hopefully she will be baptized on Saturday! It's just been such a testimony builder to just keep going. The Lord has his own timing and the Lord in the end is the one that gives us success in the work. The key is whether or not we will continually do the right things whether we have success or not! SO ya that's what's going on here! Life's great. I hope its going well for you all as well! Love you guys!

Elder Mumford

Pics- The first time the sun came out we decided to sun bathe while doing language study.... hahaha

me and my boy Elder Amisone on exchanges

Elder Forbush was a little sick and a little tired this week so I figured I would take a good pic hahah

The elderly couple gave us brownies and movie theatre popcorn

Me drinking chocolate milk out of the carton #Health

I found a cactus

And me and our investigator, Diva, who is wearing a pistons jersey #swag