Friday, June 29, 2018

Talofa!!!!

Hello everybody,
I have survived 2 days at the MTC and I'm on to my third!! However, I feel like I have been here for about 6 days haha!! They have you scheduled down for every minute of the day!! It has been great so far and I'm getting more and more excited to be the best missionary that I can possible be! I am ready to work really hard! this past two days have been long and filled with a lot of information, but I have just been enjoying every minute of it. It is so cool everything that we are doing haha i am finally here. I'm a missionary! and being an instrument in the Lords hands! It's fun with all the planning and classes and activities etc. Especially the language classes haha! my teacher is great! 
My companion is awesome here name is Sister Leakehe! She is from Australia and has a cool accent! She is fully Tongan but got sent to serve in Samoa haha her family laughed at her for that! She has beautiful long long black hair and gets complements on it all the time! So far we get along really well and have already had fun with companion study and language study! And now for my district...first off we have a good size zone with about 57 people going to Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Malaysia, Ciribis, Marshall Islands, and Indonesia!!!! I have told them all about Ammon haha i think I might have scared them a little!! haha And now about all the people going to Samoa...by they way I love them all and we for sure have the best district!! ;) It is made up of huge loud Samoans, a very tall cowboy from texas, a New Zealander, Australians, plus a few white boys and then there is me haha. it is so much fun! we are always together and it is so funny because we have all four of the largest and tallest people in the ENTIRE MTC no joke! so they already stand out, but on top of that they are of course loud, always laughing, and making jokes! We get a lot of people staring at us haha
Also, a lot of them already speak a good amount of Samoan they help us out, but they are still way ahead so that was a bit intimidating! but, its okay I'll enjoy the struggle! and someday i'll have it all down...
We had a class\meeting yesterday with our president and it was a great time! they shard a lot of information, but on of my favorite things was a story of Prophet Gordon B. Hinckley when he was a missionary and was struggling he wrote to his dad saying he better go home there is no point in him being here and his dad replied to him "FORGET YOURSELF AND GO TO WORK" that was so cool and touching I almost cried haha! But, that is exactly what I want to do! Completely forget about myself and get to work. I plan on working really hard and being diligent in my efforts just like the Savior is!! I am so ready and excited!! 
Also, we teach our first investigator tonight! he only speaks Samoan supposably so my companion and I have been planning for this a little haha I'll I know how to say is like "O a mai oe?" How are you? haha thats a good start oh and I can tell him my name and ask what his is O ai Lou Suafa? haha we get to have notes and stuff it should be fun haha  
We also talked about teaching by the spirit and how importnat that is. we are just there to invite and help others to come unto Christ! We must be strictly obedient and worthy ourselves to have the Spirit with us to best help the people!
I love you all so very much!! And hope you guys have the best week!
-Sister Hymas
p.s. P-DAY IS ON FRIDAY!!! ðŸ˜Ž