This weeks experiences

Week 55

18 January 2016

Hello Family and friends... Its being a while. Sorry I couldn't email you all individually, but know that I love you all very much and hope that you all take care please. Hope those who went to FSY had a fun time and those involved in the Heilani end of Year Performance had a ball!!!! I'm having a ball of a time on my mission and sometimes cannot believe where the time goes you know. Im in my second year of my mission now and I sometimes marvel in my mind time goes too quick... truely its something we take for granted.

Well family and friends I leave you with the email to my mission president this morning to fill you in about my area. Things are going great and we hit 11 lessons this week sadly no new investigators but there is always another week to try again right?? I love you all, I leave you with this quote "The path which you are currently on, if it does not lead upwards then where are you going my friend?" Love you!!!

xoxoxoxo

Ni sa Bula Vinaka President Layton,

Warm greetings to you President on this good morning all the way from the wonderful Bush Nabua :) This week I saw miracles occur in Nabua, wonderful, memorable and unforgettable miracles happen :) 

Tuesday afternoon we arrived in our area. It has always been our goal to visit in House of the Village Methodist Preacher and share a small message with his family. His children absolutely love us, as does his mother in law. We got off the bus and walked through the village to our home when we heard the wife of the preacher invite us to come eat, she never does this. She usually pretends we're invisible. Elder Van der Linden and I were shocked!! We entered their home, shared laughs and smiles and stories. We had dinner together and then left to return home. Now to other missionaries it may not seem like too much, yet to me, to us that was a pure MIRACLE!!! Never in my whole service in Nabua, as well as Tukavesi and Tacilevu have I ever been invited nor heard this women speak to me and then to be let into her home Woooohoo!!!!

Wednesday bought more miracles. We made the usual journey to the Village of Vuinadi, a village and hour away by bus to adminster the sacrament to a temple member named Sister Qabale who is blind and with her husband started the Fijian branches in California, also the Lautoka stake in Viti Levu. Her husband before his death served as a Bishop twice and a patriarch and many other various callings. As Elder Van der Linden and I adminstered her the sacrament and had our own small sacrament meeting.. Tears could not be withheld from anyone's eyes in the home, the Spirit of the Lord fully enveloped us as we performed this most sacred ordianance to Sister Qabale. She told us that she hadn't being to church to renew her baptisimal covenants in almost a year, and to paratake of the bread and water this day, in her words she explained " I feel renewed again ". Tears fell like rain that day as we all bore testimonies of truth. I'll never forget that experience...

President Layton, the reason I wanted to tell you about these experiences is to let you know that Nabua is not some dead area like some may think. It is not just some small branch of members that no ones really knows or has heard of way out in the bush. Nabua is alive, breathing and ready to move!! The smiles and laughter of these people, their beautiful faces and the pure and simple joys we share with them I will always treasure in my heart. 

During this week I have suffered a lot of stress coming into the RED ZONE on thursday evening. Due to this sickness I caused myself to become sick and so on Saturday we had to stay home because I was physically weak and couldnt do much without becoming over heated or losing breath. Nevertheless even though I was physically sick my mind continued to run and run and run because in my mind I knew that there was a work to be done that day and I felt so bad that I couldn't do it. 

President I love my Zone leaders, truly I do because I know they have my best intentions at heart and so they push me to do more because it will not only enable us to reach and achieve goals, but it will also allow us to go further in our individual potentials. What missionary wouldnt want that? 

President I just want you to know that there hasnt being a day I haven't seen miracles, I havent seen blessings in the homes of those we visit and share with including our home. They may not be like the ones in Suva or Lautoka or Nausori or anywhere else but I can guarentee you President there wasnt a day I wasnt constantly active, moving, thinking, trying to do the lords work. To pick up the work and get it on it way to the eternal kingdom of god.

President I dont do this for my gain but I do it for them, I do it for them because they deserve it!!! These beautiful, and faithful members of Nabua deserve the Lords very best missionaries to serve them, to strengthen them and serve them. They deserve it President!! Even in times sickness I want to be moving, there is always a work to be done whether that is loving someone, sharing with a family, serving a woman and her children. There is always a work to be done!! From talking to members and Bro. Loganimasi I have come to understand the reasons this area is like this, its has suffered a drought, a spiritual drought due to many things. Things are moving in Nabua President, these past weeks we have being trying to nurture and strengthen this branch and you know, the plan is repaired and ready to fly. Nabua is alive, I just want my little in the middle of nowhere area to be heard that it is alive and momentum is building.

No one will ever know what I did here in Nabua, sometimes I cry about leaving here one day. These people are beautiful and they deserve the very best, they're not just another bunch of members in some bush part of Fiji. They are the members of Nabua and they want to recieve the blessings of exaltation too. Some of the experiences I had here, I never knew could be possible and yet the Lord has proved me wrong :) Its amazing some areas have great miracles and miraculas things occur in their areas and other have small and queit miracles that bless their lives to help them keep going on. 

One thing I've learnt is that all missionaries are different, we all work different, teach, sing, share, talk different. we have different talents and gifts and yet thats what makes us missionaries and wonderful children of the one and only God. Thanks for listening President, hope this helps you to know more about our area :D

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

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