Great Start to the New Year!

Week 54

11 January 2016

The work is going AMAZING!!! Our investigator at the moment Asena Tabudrami, is her name. She came to church for the second time!!!!! WOOOO!!!! She can be baptized now according to our leaders since she has attended church before with her less active mother :) I'm so excited, we've made a goal to invite to be baptized on the 24th of January. She has being doing so well with commitments and in lessons too, speaking of Baptismal dates. If you all remember Selai a girl I met from Tukavesi well she also will be baptized on the 24th of January :) Truly this week is as our Mission President said, "A Year of Miracles".  We Hit 10 lesson also this past week for the first time in our area!!! Our goal for next week is to hit 12 and build our way up each week. We have planned a great and busy week next week so we really need our Zone leaders not to pull any last minute things on us in order to get our goals for next week. Because last week they organized ZTM and it threw our plans off by 2 days -.- due to traveling back to our area and our Mission President coming to the North to visit. He came on exchanges with me and my companion and wow!!! what a experience that was to take our Mission President around our area. I felt sorry though because he is a bit old and he's walking around with two fit and young Elders in the blistering hot Fijian sun lol but I give him credit because he managed hahah and used a lot of sun screen :) It was a humbling experience also to have him in our tiny flat which is literally the size of my bedroom back home in Australia.

Even the members commented it was such a humbling experience too because as one member said 'What if that was a big Methodist Preacher, that came to the village to visit the Methodist members Booo!!! there would be a big party, food galore, people all dressed up, the village would look brand new. But with this on, nope nothing. All he did was simply come, and walk around the village speaking to people in the village. So simple and so humbling." - Brother Loganimasi. Its true though what he says, it reminds me of the Savior and how when he came to heal the people, he was such a well known person by the people who talked about him and yet he came unto people so humbly and lovingly. I loved it, especially the exchange, he gave us lots of wisdom and advice for our area. 

Sorry Family I don't have my SD Card reader with me to be able to send the photo but in the mean time I do have this photo :) of me and my companion at a restaurant last week waiting for our meal. We had a wonderful and very fun filled Branch Counsel this past Sunday as well, my first ever and we organized a lot of things with in the branch. Our Branch President took and embraced all the things we presented to him. Thank goodness for Brother Loganimasi our 1st counselor and his help to push our points, ideas and suggestions for the Branch. Things are really looking up in Nabua, I can already feel the church, village and people coming alive. Things are moving, and I'm so happy but at the same time so sad because I know its a possibility I will be transferred in  2 weeks. As they say in the mission its always time to transfer when things start getting good in the area lol. DONT MAKE ME GO!!!! haha

The re dedication of the Fiji, Suva Temple is not too far and we have being told all of the plans for it. The re dedication is on the 21st of February, Cultural Celebration on the 20th of February and we fly in on the 19th to Suva for it all. President Henry B. Iring will be attending along with Elder Cook we are told. All the missionaries will have a chance to meet them and during the Cultural celebration at Suva ANZ Stadium all FSM missionaries will walk across the field with a white handkerchief in front of thousands of members and non member Fijians. I cannot wait to enter the temple once again, its being a year since I went last, and that was in Provo, Utah at the MTC. 

Time sure has gone by so quick!!! where did it go?? There is so much more to learn though, and achieve as a missionary and as a son of god with Divine potential. On the 22nd of this month will be my farewell in Tukavesi, I miss them so much and they miss me too haha they even call our missionary companion phone sometimes just to talk to me and see if I'm okay in Nabua lol. 

Well something I have being pondering this week is this phrase I heard "If you're not going up, then where are you going?" Its a good phraseIi mean no one wants to go back or down in life, and well if we're just going straight then its kind've just going with the motions and all of life. But if we're going up then we know we're trying to reach somewhere. Heaven is up, God is up and if they aren't your goals then what is and which way are you going my friend? I invite you guys to think about the phrase... really makes you think about you and your life huh? I am so thankful for god and for always hearing my prayers though i know im not perfect and forget to say them sometimes too haha but i am grateful for his atonement that enables the possibility of perfection for myself. Isn't it amazing!!! Faith requires works and if your not will to try new things then your not challenging yourself or your faith, and your faith is hollow. Your faith is just going straight not up!! Fear and doubt are the opposite of Faith so 'Just Do It" - NIKE lol

Wish me luck for this next week im hoping we can beat 10 lessons and get 2 investigators :) Love you guyyys!!!, take care okay :) 

Elder Lemusu
"You can take the Elder out of the Bush, but the Bush will always be in the Elder."