So Hello, or Malo e lelei, or Malo 'etau
lava,
I've had a really good week! I actually had
lots of people to teach. And I think I will have my first baptism next week. It’s
good to know I’m doing something productive. So there was a guy who came to
church with a member that he is working for. The member pays this guy and
another guy with food for their families in return for work. I think he gives
pretty generously to them too, which is always good. We met the first guy (A)
at church where we taught the first lesson. We set up to come back Tuesday at
5. When we went there, we met his friend (F) who was working with A. We invited
him to join the lesson too and we taught the Plan of salvation. It was really
nice because the member joined and was able to explain the parts we couldn't.
The language is really tough for me sometimes. We invited them to read the Book
of Mormon and pray about our message. F seemed really excited about it; we came
back the next day and taught the gospel of Jesus Christ, which they both liked
again a lot. We invited them to be baptized on March 5th, and they both said
yes and were excited. I'm shocked at how easily they accepted it. I think they
are pretty humble due to their circumstances. We came the next day and taught
about the word of wisdom and the law of chastity. They both have a smoking
problem, but they said they are willing to change to be baptized. When I asked
if they had both told their wives, they responded in the negative. A’s wife is
already baptized and won't have a problem with it, but the wife of F, her
family is of another church and they are really strong and he doesn't want to
tell her incase she and her parents get mad. I told him he had to talk to her about
it and get permission; I told him how families are really important and we
won't baptize him until his wife gives consent. I talked about how we don't
want to split families; and we won't. He understood and said he would try to
talk to her on Saturday, and then report on Sunday about his efforts. I'm
praying my butt off about him and our other investigators. But yeah I’m
excited!
I have another investigator named E;
he's super awesome! We were supposed to baptize him on Friday, but his parents
said no. He's a student at Liahona High School; he is the most awesome guy
ever. He belongs his parent’s church, which is the United Church of God. It’s
like a seventh day Adventist, so he doesn't eat pork and does the Sabbath on
Saturday. He has amazing standards and is great to get along with. He even has
better standards then a lot of church members I know! He's been going to
seminary for 4 years and already knows all the doctrine in the lessons we taught,
we quickly reviewed with him. We asked him to pray about the church, and he did
and has been feeling really good at about it. He was really excited, but when
he asked his parents they said no. They said they wanted to talk about it on
Saturday though. Hopefully they will listen to what he wants and let him
decide. I am praying for him too!
We also taught someone who was of the
Hindu faith. He came from Fiji, and his parents are from India. Something interesting
that happened this week was that we went to our friend from Wales house this
morning and supported him while he watched the Rugby tournament in Europe. He insisted
that we wear Welsh colors, so we came and had some fun; made pancakes and that
kinda stuff. That's all I really got. I love wearing skirts. The language is
slowly getting better. I kinda just try to talk and say stuff and hope they
understand. I don't really think about doing to correctly, hopefully being
brave will help me =)
Ofa atu,
Elder Sitake
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