Week 46
16th November 2015
Ni sa Bula Si'a Matuvuvale!!
Maan, this week has been a great experience!! Im getting down the Dialect in my area way good!!! In their dialect you dont use the letters K or T, and they have some different words that replace the normal Fijian language that every one knows which is called by the way "Vosa Vaka Bau - Bauan Language" ... Its way cool :) All the people we dont know get so surprised and excited that I can speak their tongue haha truly one of the lords blessings he has surely given me is the gift of tongues :)
This past week we only had 5 lessons, due to the fact that our goal as a companionship wasn't to get lessons. Our goal was to get to know the area, the people and how the work could and should go about. Even though I have spent more time in the area than my comp, I wouldn't say that I know everything about it because before we would only spend a few days and then leave to the next area. So this past week we took it slow and just tried to soak everything in, build relationships with people and sort've get a feel on how we would do the work. GOAL ACHIEVED!!
We did exactly that. This week we won't be in our area all week because we will be in Taveuni for Zone conference, Distrcit Conference, District meeting and Missionary Night with one of the Seventy - Elder Pearson I believe.
Nabua area is way cool, tonnes of less actives and not really any investigators at the moment. We tried to go and see Nai but she wasn't home so we will try again next week after Taveuni trip. We have tonnes planned, we recently organized with the Branch Presidency that we will be beginning a Friday Night Games night and a Saturday activity each week. Somewhat like mutual and institue but not really at the same time lol. We're doing this to start opening the people, the village up to us and the church and to ultimatly achieve some new investigators in the church. PLAN PLAN PLAN!!! if theres one thing you must learn on the mission its PLANNING!! lol. But its awesome though :)
Nabua area is awesome, beautiful, lush and green, happy and joyful but we're going to hopefully make it better or at least start something to make it better before me or my companion leaves the area. Need to always think of the eternal perspective and big goal!! Don't let the small things distract you cause Satan loves making shinny pretty things seem like such a big deal when really the answers sitting right there in our faces.
This week also was Diwali a Hindu celebration which is like our Christmas for them, there was tonnes of fireworks and Indian sweets and food made :) but for us out in the bush, no fireworks, no nice Indian food lol just a long 3 hour walk home through the night because the bus broke down oi auuuuee -.- Was fun though, the bush is great because it always provides sustainment. Fruits and Coconut water is always there to be used hahah just don't take it from people farms or land lol.
But yeah well I think I should share something spiritual before me and my companion finish emails, because we are starving and are hungry sara ga :) Think we will go eat Chinese.
My comp has only been out 6 months so I feel like he is my son (trainee) I really feel and think that my mission President gave me Elder Van der Linden to prepare me to train next transfer, everyone is saying it, even my companion thinks the same and President has mentioned it to me a couple times if I would want to but I told him I wasn't ready yet but I feel so ready now. I think in my interview with President I will tell him and discuss with him too.
My cousin Elder Roberts is serving in the same mission as me!!! He is where I served in Rakiraki and he is being trained by a missionary I know lol His trainers from Arizona, Elder Noble. Elder Roberts also had his first baptism recently too!!!! So happy for him,I literally cannot wait to see him if not soon at the rededication of the Fiji Suva Temple next year February :)
But anyway something spiritual, well this week I have learnt the wonderful attribute of gratitude. I haven't mastered it, but I have learnt and experienced it this week. How important it is to be grateful, yes even for a bus that broke down on us and we had to walk 3 hours home in the dark. Every experience is a learning experience a chance for you to seek the knowledge within and take hold of the oppotunity to be grateful for the wisdom you learn even from the smallest of experiences. That is what I have found anyway, our bus broke down on us and my comp moaned and groaned all the way, I wanted to as well I mean I'm not a angel.
But I know that if the bus hadn't broken down then my comp and I wouldn't have had the 3 hour chance to talk to one another get to know each other more, grow closer as a companionship and learn from each others personalities, attitudes and perspectives.
Everything and everywhere is a chance to seek knowledge, but to seek knowledge you MUST have one important thing within you and that is UNDERSTANDING!! You can't learn something if you don't understand, you cannot be humble if you are not willing to understand the situation or the person as well as yourself.
Understanding as Russel M Ballard speaks of in his book "Our Search for happiness" is vital it is key and if we desire knowledge and learning we must be understanding. I told my companion this week there are no such things as coincidences or luck which is what my Uncle Aaron Stirling said. And believe that, everything is planned everything has its opposite, if you chose to do wrong a consequence can follow and the plan God has if you do wrong start to come into play. God knows everything, he creates all that lives, breathes and moves and that is and if we can only learn from these things and acquire them to ourselves and remember to show thanks and give thanks. I can only imagine how much more blessed we will be because we took the time to understand, to learn, to grown and to give thanks. I am not perfect, I murmur like Laban and Lamuel did in the Book of Mormon, I feel wroth sometimes like the Lamanites but if I just remember the path that is before me and not give in to the natural man which makes things so easy and tempting to follow. I can recevie greater, more wonderful and wholesome blessings and gifts I could ever imagine.
Somethings, sometimes and some people dont always look, sound or seem the best but in the eternal run, they can truly be and sometimes are and will be the most wonderous. Understanding is needed in all things :)
Now time to speak some Fijian lol
Au lomani kemuni kece na noqu matuvuvale, au sa vakavinavinavinaka vei na kalou me baleta noqu matuvuvale. Ko i au buiti noqu tamata meu veqaravi kemuni e na nomuni cakacaka meu tara cake na matanitu ni kalou. Au lomani kemuni turanga noda ivakabula ko Jisu karisito kei na noda kalou na tamada vakalomalagi. Au kila dina nona vosa, nona vunau, nona ivakavuvuli, io keveka keda na muria o koya. dina na veivakalougatataki e na lako mai vei keda mai noda vale i lomalagi. Oqo na ka bibi au via wasea vei kemuni kece na noqu matuvuvale, e na yaca ni noda turaga, noda ivakabula na luvena ni kalou ko Jisu Karisito, emeni.
Try have a go at understanding this family :P lol Love you all, sorry no pictures today, USB might have a virus on it so better get that fixed lol. Love you all so very much, my comp and I are going to go eat Chinese food now :P hahah PDAY@!! LOVE YOU ALLL XOXOXOXOX
Elder Lemusu
#FijiSuvaMission #SMILE #SpirituallyMindedIsLifeEternal
And then the photos came through... :)
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