Good Week!

Week 42

19th October 2015

This week was good. We stayed home a couple days due to the bad weather, way strong winds and pouring rain non stop all day. It would be unsafe for us to drive anywhere, we would risk crashing because we drive on small dirt roads and when its rains it just all goes to slip and slide mud roads.. So the high light of this week?? well, because we couldn't go out due to the weather, it was pouring down raining and the village kids all told us to come play .... so we did lol after studies of course:L had mad fun playing, slipping and sliding in the mud playing volleyball and touch haha #villagelife

Because we have such a massive area, we don't have a lot of investigators and we are always moving and are never on part of area. We only stay in one part of our area for maybe 1-2 days and then we move to another area. We are working a lot with the branches too especially with district conference coming up we are trying to work hard to turn the district into a stake. So that's the goal for this coming November at District conference in the island of Taveuni. Good news though!!! We currently look after 2 branches and a group in our area and starting maybe November or December we will have 2 more groups opening up in other areas of our area so more saints and people to bring unto Christ.

At the moment our most progressing investigator is Elanoa. She was scheduled to be baptized last Sunday but had to go to a school trip in Suva which is in the other main island. She should be back tomorrow and hopefully baptized this coming Sunday :)

MIRACLE EXPERIENCE:  we were going to one of our areas on Wednesday, and my companion had a prompting to go and visit one of our elderly member couples who live very far away!!!! So it is impossible for them to attend church especially as the wife is blind (yet knows the home like God knows us, gets around so easily) and the husband very heavily sick with diabetes ( we know his time is near). They are way amazing!!! They have 8 children who all live in Utah and are all married also. Their names are Brother and Sister Qabale, they lived in California for 30 years before they returned back to Fiji. Whilst they were in California they also started a Fijian branch that is there now along with another couple Brother and Sister Vuniwai who also live in our area and have started one of the two new groups in our area. 

We came to their home, we sat down with them and we shared a small spiritual though, Sister Qabale cried as I bore my testimony and expressed "she had prayed we would come because no came for them on Sunday to perform the sacrament so they could renew their covenants and Brother Qabale is very sick.  She said it was hard to refrain from crying.. 

We gave Brother Qabale a priesthood blessing and before we left Sister Qabale said " Elder I have a surprise for you. I have got a referral for you, its my niece" 

We were over the moon happy and her niece we sat down with twice now and taught the first lesson and even took a leap of faith and invited her to be baptized and she answered with the golden word "YES"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  She is amazing, so prepared and so interested and inspired by the example of her Aunty and Uncle Brother Qabale who still manage to have daily prayers together, family home evening each Monday night, scripture study and when the power is on in the village they play Church video's.. 

How inspiring they are, I want to be like them when I am old. The Lord, surely and most definitely blessed us and I am so grateful especially for my companion who felt that prompting. Its amazing!!!

Well anyway, I hope you have enjoyed my email I am so excited for November because ITS MY BIRTHDAY ON THE 8TH and also we have district conference, Zone Conference and Zone PDAY!!! Zone Pdays are hard to get in the North because all the missionaries are so spread out!!! lol. 

Well love you all my family if you have any questions about Fiji, please ask away :) I love my mission, I love my God and I love you all.

Moce mada

Elder Lemusu, xo

The Ocean pictures is when we we're on exchanges in the Island of Rabi. Rabi is a Island owned by Fiji but populated by Gilbertese people or people from Kiribati. They moved over a long time ago to Fiji and now all inhabit this Island lol.

The other two picture's are from this morning, we went to the Bakery and went and ate our breakfast at one of Savusavu's many view point peaks. Its beautiful up there!!! #FSM

By the way the Elder who is in all the photo's on the left, his name is Elder Alonzo and if any of you remember he was my MTC companion :D Its good to see him again, he is serving in Rabi :)