3-31-13

Hey there,

This week has been double dank for sure.  Sorry I don't have tons of time.  We have been busy to the bones.  Last week we had an awesome FHE with a bunch of people from a village called Matatufu.  We had it at a members house.  They're way strong and super cool.  Our investigators, Faafuti, and his wife, To'e, came and this recent convert couple, the Tongan woman, Uila, who we helped bring back to church and her kids who we baptized last week all came as well.  And this old woman named Tsapeka who has started to come back to church that we have been working with.  There was probably at least 25 people that showed up.  It was mega sweet.  It was awesome though and the spirit was strong.  So I was stoked on that.  It went over really well.

Also this week was freakin' the sickest too.  So we finally got to go to the temple with that family that my trainer and I baptized in my first area.  The grandma--Fonoea and her daughters, Faasegia and Mata--all got their endowments.  It was so freakin' sick.  I was crazy stoked on it.  Fonoea is going to get sealed to her husband who is passed away--hopefully in May when they have their stake temple trip.  She was planning on being sealed this trip, but they haven't done his proxy baptism yet.  (I think that's what it's called.)  But it was so cool.  And it was awesome to see all the people from my first area.   It was just crazy.  I had been looking forward to this time for like over a year now, so it was crazy sweet.  It's been super awesome seeing the changes in these people's lives.  This was sort of like the pinnacle of my mission.  I feel crazy blessed to have taken a part of these people's conversion.  And apparently Faasegia and Mata's husbands have started going to church, but haven't been yet baptized.  But for sure they will, and at some point they're all going to be sealed.  So that's the only bummer is that  I'll miss out on that.  And also I just got the news that we have a trip to do baptisms for the dead for the family Faitau and I baptized in Lepale--sometime at the end of April, I think.  I'm stoked for that.

Oh yeah, and I finally got to meet my godson, little Eric Jacob Lefoa.  He's the cutest, and is a skux deluxe just like his godfather.  Definite stokeparty to the days.

But yeah, not much else happened this week.  My companion finishes his mission in like two days.  I'm going to miss this guy for sure.  We've grown really close and have actually been comps for like 5 months now.  I'm sort of wondering who my new comp's going to be--hopefully not a ranjo.  We'll see, I guess,  I'll for sure stay in Lotofaga.  I think I'll probably be here for awhile actually--maybe I'll even finish here.  I dunno.  It's a good area though.  I'm really loving it.

Also this week my comp and I did a fireside over in Aufaga.  It was alright.  It's actually not our area, but we're covering it temporarily so we got chosen to do the fireside.  It was good though.  

Also our baptism for Arga didn't go through.  Turns out she was wrong about her own age.  She thought she was 10, her mom thought she was 9, but the birth certificate said 8.  She'll probably be baptized under a primary baptism.  I was just bummed cause that was probably my only chance to do a baptisms in the ocean.  Haha, oh well.

Elder Dankness

PS  Enroll me in Snow College if you can.  I for sure come home in October, so I'll be going to school in the spring.  But I'm pretty sure Snow is where I want to go to.