Big stuff for this week. It was a good one though.
This week the work really started to pick up, so I am hoping we may
have a few investigators ready for baptism sometime soon., Esau is
dope--still keeping the Word of Wisdom. We baked him a cake and brought
it to him the other day. We tried to st a date for him and his wife to
be married and be baptized, but his wife is super pregnant, so we may
have to wait until after she has her baby. But for sure Esau will get
baptized soon.
We also have two sisters, Aiga and Taumaia, who are both preparing to be baptized this month. So that should be good.
All
of our inactive families continue to attend weekly. I'm pretty stoked.
We're hoping to take some of these people for baptisms for the dead at
the end of this month. Working with weak members is tight though. To
me, I feel like it's the same as getting a baptism. Either way, it's
bringing others unto Christ to receive sacred ordinances. It's good
though. I'm really loving the area. It's been 6 months now that I've
been in Lotofaga. The mission president said he's stoked about all the
good stuff that's going on here, so I doubt I'm going anywhere. I'll
most likely finish here in Lotofaga which is cool too.
I talked to the 1st counselor in my ward in Samata,
where I started out my mission, yesterday on the phone. But I was mega
stoked cause he was telling me that this girl, Silia, one of the
converts that my trainer and I baptized back in January 2012 has got her
mission call and is going to enter into the temple next month! She's
serving in Sidney, Australia. In fact the same mission where my trainer
lives, so it's pretty nuts. The only problem is that the APs told me
I'm officially finishing on September 15th, but Silia doesn't go into
the temple until the end of September or maybe October. So I am going
to ask the mish Pres if I can extend a little bit so I can attend her
temple endowment. Cause there's like only a few special exceptions that
missionaries can extend for, so I am hoping we can make this happen.
I'll let you know though. But I am way happy for her. I was way
surprised when I heard she already had her call.
Also, there's been some big changes in the mission
lately. Cause before there were no DL's, only ZL's. But now cause of
all the missionaries coming in, they're making both DL's and ZL's. So
my comp and I are still ZL's, but the zone got twice as big. If you
look at the map, it starts at Travea, on the far east side of the
island, and goes to Siumu, which is more in the middle part of the
island. It's pretty far though. Luckily, the new DL's have to walk and
we still get the van.
Our ZL responsibilities are all new though. It
should be cool I guess. It's nice, though, cause they're taking out al
the administerial garbage and we're left to just help the other
missionaries spiritually. Cause before, a lot of our time was spent
picking up mail, reports, water jugs, random chores, doing the zone's
shopping, etc. But now they have a senior couple doing all that
nonsense and my comp and I can just focus on trying to motivate the
missionaries to be good. It's tight though. I'm down with whatever.
What's good though is that it means we actually get p-days. For the
longest time we spent almost all of our p-days driving to Apia and doig
zone chores, but now they've eliminated that, so we have the whole day
to do whatever now. So I'm stoked on that.
We had a pretty funny experience earlier this week.
We were at dinner with this member family, but they're not super strong
really either. Anyways, there was this drunk dude there who was kind
of just hanging out while we were eating. But I guess he was going to
go somewhere, so he came to say goodbye to my companion and I before he
left. So he comes up behind my companion and sort of shakes his hand,
and then he indicates to my comp like he is going to tell him something
important so the drunk guy leans in like he is going to whisper
something in his ear, but instead grabs him by the face and gives him a
big wet kiss on the cheek! Haha, oh man it was the best thing ever.
Then he shook hands with me and tried to pull the same move, but I
deflected him by pulling away and saying, "No, thank you!!" Haha, but
then he just left. My poor companion was pretty shook up though. He
probably never thought he was going to kiss anyone on the mission. Good
stuff.
Yeah, but that's pretty much it for the week. It was a good one though.
Your friend,
Elder Eimer E. Kay
PS
I found the guy that stole my wallet. So don't worry. I've got it.
My license and stuff was there, but the money was gone. All good.
--Squire of Samoa
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