Bula Vinaka!

First off I’m super duper jealous of that game, geez, that’s awesome.

Haha, and I will try and muster out a good email now, haha.

So the week went pretty good, didn’t have a whole lot of appointments so all we could really do is hit the streets and knock doors. The thing with our Fijian Branch is that the only way we can find Fijians is through referrals and if we receive no referrals then there is no work there and since we got only one referral this last week we don’t really have new people to teach so when we have no one to teach then the only thing to do is find and the only real way to do that is by teaching members, street contacting, and tracting. So that is what we did this week mostly on the tracting side of things. There is something weird about tracting, to me it’s almost the most ineffective thing that we could possibly do besides doing nothing, but something about it brings blessings. We tracted a ton this week and were able to find some new people to teach which we are really excited about.

I think it also brings blessings to our investigators that we already have as well, we had some awesome lessons this week.

First Bill, who is the Bishop’s brother, we stopped by this week and talked about the Plan of Salvation, the great plan for our happiness. He liked what he learned but his only concern was that he didn’t like the idea of having to pay for someone else’s transgression (i.e. Adam’s transgression). We then explained that we are not accountable for his transgression, that we don’t believe in infant baptism, we are not born in sin, but that we are all only accountable for what we do. That we need to fix any wrongs that we have done in our lives to the best of our power and allow Christ to fill in for the rest. He readily accepted what we shared and he said that he wished someone would have told him that 50 years ago. Haha, what a great guy. The Bishop keeps on telling us that this is the most important part of our missions, haha, to teach his brother, haha, great guy.

Little Sita had her surgery last week on Tuesday and we haven’t heard from them directly but from what we understand it went well so that is good. And other than her we still have quite a bit of potential. Last week on Thursday we had a lesson during dinnertime so we had to snag something to eat after so we went to go get some bbq.  When we walked in Elder Chapman was ordering and I started talking to this lady she was really nice and sounded like a member but when I asked her which ward she went to she told me that she wasn’t a member, but that her last husband was Tongan and his family was mostly members and that missionaries had stopped by to their house a lot before. She asked us where we served and we told her the Fijian Ward and she got all excited and said she had remarried to a Fijian fella so we will go there either tonight or on Wednesday to meet them.  I’m super pumped for that, haha, blessings out the wazzooo this week.

Other than that nothin’ really happened, we ate a bunch of food and had some good times with some members.  My suits aren’t fitting all that well these days and it’s not the stomach really because my waist isn’t really changing. But because I’ve been squatting like crazy my thighs and calves are just getting bigger so now my pants are like skin tight on my legs (haha i look like Justin Bieber hahah).  Good thing I have a jacket on when I wear them because my bahooki (buttox) is getting bigger as well, haha.

So just so you know a new suit might be in the forecast, but I dunno, we run a lot as well so I just don’t know what to do, haha.

Love ya'll, peace and blessings,

Elder Hanke

We sent Gar a video clip of the end of the USU-Utah game, along with a little update on how the AGGIES took it to the Utes. :) (Yes Mike, that jab was for you.)  Go Aggies - what a sweet win!

And really... another suit? My goodness... a little TMI there.  Gar should have enough suits for every possible body size by the time this mission is done.

Hope everyone is doing well... our love to everyone! And our continued prayers are with Di.

Love,

Nova