Wonderful Week!

Week 102

05th December 2016

Yet another wonderful week here in Navatuyaba!!! We now have 3 investigators that will be baptised this month. On 16th, 17th and 18th of December 2016. Sisilia will be baptised on the 16th, Maria on the 17th and Savenaca on the 18th. I am so excited!! So is the ward and our Bishop!! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were all usual days. PDAY, District meeting, self reliance class which are awesome by the way. I am learning so much about what I want to do with my life after the mission especially in terms of a career choice too.

Friday though we had a mission tour. All 4 zones here on the eastern side of Viti Levu combined and enjoyed a wonderful conference from Elder Cardon who is a seventy & in the South Pacific Area Presidency. He shared with us a lot of knowledge and many things who can use in our missionary work. Whilst we got to see a member of the Seventy, everyone was mostly excited to see each other and catch up. 4 zones together! That never happens here in the mission, so we were blessed spiritually and socially haha. I got to catch up with all the Australian missionary which by the way are all mostly Samoan. It was fun and full of laughs as usual.

Saturday we worked hard, and I gave much thought to one of the trainings that were shared at the Mission tour. The insight was called "What will be your legacy?" It applies very much to missionaries and also everyday life. What will be your legacy? I heard once a quote that went like this "We are remembered by others from the gifts we leave them." I gave much thought to my mission, what has being my legacy, what have i been remembered by?? It was a deep question. I thought about the word success and how I measure myself as a successful missionary. Many missionaries measure themselves in regards to their success by baptisms, lessons, looking/ sounding good for leaders. Others by helping people and making them happy, sharing their love and showing the way to Christ etc.

For myself, if the people I teach understand and come to find out it is true the message I share with them is true and that causes them to act on the faith and truth and at the same time i can make them smile, be happy and feel love and comfort in their lives. Than i judge myself to be a successful missionary!! I am a disciple of Jesus Christ and he has created us all different, no-one likes a robot missionary. I have always tried to be a REAL missionary. I don't mean like your stereotypical missionary but I mean a honest missionary. As in honest with myself. So many missionaries I think take it wrong when they say "The mission will change you" to me that means you don't try to fake who you are and be someone else, you allow the Gospel to replace and add onto you. Just like a house, when a family moves out and another moves in. You don't just demolish it completely, you enter and turn it into your own house. You simply replace that of which you don't want and add to what you do want.

Whilst you do that you rely on the Lord always and he will guaranteed direct your paths. Trust and Love. My legacy currently.  

Sunday we walked 5km to Brother Savenaca's house early in the morning, it was soo hot!! We got him dressed into his church clothes and pushes him in his wheel chair all the way to church. Another 5km again, only this time it wasn't so hot. God had blessed us with clouds #blessings. He enjoyed church so much, members were conversating with him and catch up. He knew a lot of people there, we took him to our lunch appointment and then let him rest. After wards we began pushing him back to his home, but Heavenly Father blessed us and let a car stop and pick us up and dropped us to Savenaca's home. #miracles

And well now it is Monday again, returning home is exciting but also scary and complete nerve racking but it is another chapter in life that I am coming to. At some point I must accept and embrace it, but I will continue to work as a missionary and disciple of Jesus Christ even after I have finished the mission. I love being a missionary. Wish I could tell you all the miracles I see each and everyday, they are out there in everyday life you just have to change your thinking of what is a miracle and a blessing. Once you do that you will begin to see them more often and it will slowly change you, believe me though the change is amazing!!