Week 33
17th August 2015
Ni Bula Vina'a,
That's the dialect here in my new area, instead of saying the usual Bula Vinaka. (Fact: "Bula" means Life, not really hello. So when you greet some one in Fiji, your really saying "Good Life to you"). But anyway, as you will all most know I am in a new area, my first transfer and let me tell you it feels so weird. I feel like I know nothing, in Rakiraki I knew everything about everyone, the area, the work, the land etc. Here in my new area its like I've being re-born and have to restart everything all over. It feels weird, because they last couple days I wake up and im like "Soo.. what am I doing today?" haha..Life is good though here in the mission. We had a baptism already yesterday and we will have another one next week and hopefully the following week also. I'm so grateful to have this opportunity to serve here, the distance is long and the villages are interior, waayy interior!!! The land is beautiful and the people are cool too. Man I didnt even get two words out and ive already being labelled "O iko levulevu" meaning: Your Fat. I have being eating properly but doesn't seem like that to the Fijian's the rude dudes lol. They're very open about calling people fat, skinny, short etc.
My new companion is named Elder Arthur, Maori guy ;) From Wellington. he's from Tainui and Ngati toa..... Polynesians live in such a small world lol because I know a lot of his family and cousin from back in the Gold Coast waara!! :P He is cool as, I'm going to kill him (missionary wise) he finishes his mission next transfer. He's a real onto it guy, knows what he is doing. He is the district leader too and says after he finishes I may take over as District leader!! #OhhhMyyyyLiifeeee Oh and GUESS WHAT!!! Lastnight we stayed at the Zone leaders house, and the Zone leader that just got transfered (Elder Utai) left some Koko Samoa, and well you all already know what I did with that hahaha #Kokolaisa #KokoSamoa #FaafetailavaLol
I was thinking about why my Mission President would put me here to serve of all places and the only reason I could think of is that, well the Gospel is everlasting and ongoing. In order for me to recieve as much knowledge and understanding of it I need to be put into different situations where I can learn more and new things. In Rakiraki I knew the area well and the people etc. Yes it would have being still possible for me to learn new and different things but maybe not as much new and different things compared to a new area? #CatchMyDrift
The Lord puts us in different situations so that we may experiences new and different things. If Adam and Eve didn't partake of the food then they would have just existed rather than lived, as they knew no sin because they new no happiness. As the prophet Lehi teaches, there is opposition in all things. Something my new companion said to me was "A wise man learns from his mistakes, but a even wiser man learns from the mistakes of others" he applied that to the Book Of Mormon. It is a Book of true and doctrinal stories of a people before us. Prophets encourage us to read it daily, and Henry B. Iring tells us " We must drink deeply of its pages" learning from their lives and challenges, trials and success is up to us, but since coming on the mission I have gained a GREAT love for the Book Of Mormon. Before the mission I had never read it, it was boring and didn't makes sense, but in all things its starting which is the hardest part to a task. I am not perfect and there is so much to do and learn on and after the mission, there are so many things going through my head and struggles I face and we face as missionaries and children of God. But I do know the Book Of Mormon is a true and divine book. I know this. And this I where I will leave my email this week family.
The Lord puts us in different situations so that we may experiences new and different things. If Adam and Eve didn't partake of the food then they would have just existed rather than lived, as they knew no sin because they new no happiness. As the prophet Lehi teaches, there is opposition in all things. Something my new companion said to me was "A wise man learns from his mistakes, but a even wiser man learns from the mistakes of others" he applied that to the Book Of Mormon. It is a Book of true and doctrinal stories of a people before us. Prophets encourage us to read it daily, and Henry B. Iring tells us " We must drink deeply of its pages" learning from their lives and challenges, trials and success is up to us, but since coming on the mission I have gained a GREAT love for the Book Of Mormon. Before the mission I had never read it, it was boring and didn't makes sense, but in all things its starting which is the hardest part to a task. I am not perfect and there is so much to do and learn on and after the mission, there are so many things going through my head and struggles I face and we face as missionaries and children of God. But I do know the Book Of Mormon is a true and divine book. I know this. And this I where I will leave my email this week family.
Sorry I have no photo's yet, my camera has no batteries I'm going to buy some new ones today :)
I love you all so much, I think of you all the time. I pray daily, to our Father in Heaven that he provides you all with the means to strengthen you and help you in your lives each day. Au lomani kemuni kece, oqo noqu masu vua na tamada vakalomalagi. E na yaca ni turaga ko Jisu Karisito,
Emeni.
Elda Lemusu
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