Kia ora everyone! This week has been pretty great! The highlight was getting transfer news and finding out I will be staying in Wedt Harbour with Elder Iuli! This area has been so amazing the members are so great and help us out so much I cant be more grateful for them. But anyway here's how the rest of the week was.
Monday we had zone pday and we went to go play some laser tag. Man did we have some good players in our zone or I just suck I'm not sure which one it is haha. Anyway it was way fun! We said goodbye to a sister in our district that was going home and than headed home to relax a little before heading back out to work. We also had another baptismal interview for the sisters in the district and we had to have the guys brother sit in the interview to translate what I said into tongan and what he said into English it was way interesting but pretty cool! The guy got baptized this last Saturday.
Tuesday we had a combined district council with the district next to us and that was way fun getting to see the other missionaries again. We than set goals for the district for the next month. Setting goals is pretty fun and takes a little bit of time cause we need to pray about the goals we set quite a bit. We than went to go have lunch with Brother Wihongi. We visited with him a bit and got caught up on some less actives we need to help him out with and visit more. We than did some tracting and potential visits. There was also a stake missionary correlation meeting and the stake pres talked heaps about how the members need to help out with missionary work more and kinda let the leaders have it haha. After that we were informed on our transfer news. I'm super excited to be staying one more transfer!
Wednesday we didn't have anything to special happen just some tracting and other normal stuff haha.
Thursday was kinda the same haha. I dont mean to be boring during my emails bit nothing to special has really happened haha I cant remember what happened these two days sorry haha.
Friday was kinda interesting. We visited a guy that was interested in learning about Joseph Smith and his message but when we tried to teach the whole of lesson 1 he didn't care about the beginning stuff cause he already knew about God and his love for us and about his prophets. All he wanted to know about was Joseph Smith's message so he could see if it matches up to the prophecies he has been studying. Well we talked for a little bit about Joseph Smith and tried to talk about the Book of Mormon and he kept trying to avoid it and he kept going on about the bible and a bunch of other things that I cant really remember haha but in the end me and my companion just stopped him and said that things weren't gonna work out with us trying to teach him cause in the end he didn't really care about learning from us. So to get him to stop talking about bible stuff I told him if he really wanted to know what Joseph Smith's message was than he needed to read the Book of Mormon. I told him that if he believes that God calls prophets and truly called Jospeh Smith to be a Prophet than he could find out by reading the Book of Mormon. If the Book is true than Joseph Smith WAS a prophet called by God. If the Book is true and Joseph was a prophet than the church is true! Than we kinda just left him at that.. not sure if he will ever read the book but we invited him to do so and said he can know the truth if he just reads and prays. I've never felt so confident in talking about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon when I said all that to him. I felt the spirit and I know he did too. Pretty interesting discussion but a great learning experience. That's the main part of Friday.
Saturday was full of visiting less actives and other members. It was a pretty good day. Did some tracting in a place called Hellensville and got heaps of rough rejections but we kept going haha. Pretty good day though.
Sunday was great. Had a great time at church and than had an awesome lesson with Erica. She has been progressing so much and has been reading the Book of Mormon and had some good questions about it as well. She has been really good. We taught about the commandments and the importance and blessings that come from going to church. She was very accepting about tithing and fasting so she has been absolutely great! We made sure she was still okay with the baptismal date we set her on and she is all good! It has been exciting working with her and she gave me and elder Iuli a little key chains that she said reminded her of both of us and it was a very touching gift! She put a little key on it and she said the meaning behind the key is we were the key to her eyes being opened to the blessings and knowledge from our Father in Heaven and how we have helped her learn more about the Gospel and how it has blessed her life. It is probably one of my most favorite gifts ever! I'll send a pic of it! Cutest little thing ever!! I cant wait to see her get baptized!
This week has been pretty good. Even after all the ups and downs you can look past all of the negatives and find peace joy and happiness in helping others learn about our Saviors love! I love the church i love our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and I love all of you! I hope you all have another great week!
Ofa atu!
Love,
Elder Wilding
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