Manuia le Kerisimasi!!

Merry Christmas family and friends!!!! 

I love you all so much and hope this day is awesome! Just enjoy your family and friends and remember the true meaning of Christmas! Our Savior! He is the reason for our happiness and love and through Him and His Atonement this life becomes so joyful! I am so grateful that I get to share the message of the Savior the greatest gift everyday! YAY! 

For Christmas I have been able to sing in Apias Pesega, play Mary in the manger, share the Lords gospel of course, have a Christmas party get together with all the missionaries on Upolu, and skype my FAMILY!! I love my family so much and was so happy to skype them it gave me more motivation to continue to work hard out here and put in more effort! They're my team cheering me on as you all are and I am so grateful!! Thank you! 

Make sure to get on your knees tonight and thank the Lord for all your many blessings as you are filled with the Spirit of Christmas today!!! 

Alofa atu

-----Sister Hymas

MALO!!!

Hallelujah!! Our wonderful family of 3 are married and now all baptized! and it's no joke they have never been happier! the gospel has changed there lives for the better and they are so happy! I love them so much!! Setu the father! has changed the most since he stopped smoking and drinking! Such a hard working man for example, it has been raining a lot here for the past few days but every day he is out there is the rain working, making his chips and going  to sell them etc!

oh also...I am a trainer! just happened last night when the new intake arrived and I became a "mother"! haha my daughters name is Sister Feagiai! she is from Australia and she is full Samoan and can speak the language, but has only been to Samoa once for a week so she's new to the whole real Samoan life! so yeah! I am a try my best!
Oh and i am still in good old Malie! Seki eria!

-Sister Hymas
Love you all!

Kerisimasi taimi!!

Malo!!

this week has beeenn BUSY like always haha!! Its fun always having a ton of things to do!! haha just take it one step at a time yo!! Yesterday my soa and I had the craziest roller coaster day ever trying to figure out our friends, Vaileta and Setu's Faapaiaga (marriage) before they get baptized. Yes they have a ten year old daughter and aren't married haha! Same with our friend Toaiva she has two children and isn't married oh and same thing with our friend Otaota! haha I realized a lot of Samoans just don't bother getting married until missionaries come by and have to figure out their faapaiaga for them! haha jk idk but yeah I won't explain all that happened yesterday because that would be a lot haha it was crazy fun and we were able to laugh all the while so its all good! We know Heavenly Father was there with us and everything will work out!! haha Sekiiiii We are just sooo excited for our friends especially this little family of 3 and we will do anything and everything to help them come unto Christ! 

Our friend Leatuafi got baptized on Sunday! yay! he is such a funny guy with the biggest smile he uses all the time...but then didn't use in his baptism picture together. haha I've also realized that a lot of Samoans don't like to smile in pictures! anyways the ward was really excited for him and are showing him the love yeah!! 

We have Pesepesegas live on facebook every Sunday in December tune into it to watch! yeah it is such a great thing to bring our friends too! 

I am so grateful that I have the opportunity to serve a mission! to serve the Lord and the people in Samoa! My relationship with my Heavenly Father, Savior, and the Holy Ghost are strengthened everyday! and I am so so grateful and feel His blessings and love all around me!! I know He loves all of you soooo much! Just come unto Him, reach up and take His hand!!  

-Sister Hymas

Malo!!

hello!! Its a blessing I get to email today...almost didn't happen! haha

I have been great!!!!! YYAYAYA! ahaha Richard (16), Toesami (9), and Jean (10), plus a primary charles brother Frankie (8) all recently entered the waters of baptism!! So happy and feel so blessed to be apart of this work!!

Toesami and Jean's family are member, but they missed their baptism at 8 haha never thought I would run into these kinds of situations, but I'm realizing that it's the normal to find all these situations haha! And it has made the families stronger in the church! So there is a reason for everything! Also, another example of this is we found the mothers who come to church but aren't baptized...haha they live super far away next to the trash of Samoa haha but that is no excuse haha my Soa and I make our way down there and we already got a baptismal date for one of them! Yay! haha We have been called to help organize and get everyone going here as well! onosai mai! haha its great!

I am a master Koko Samoa maker!! haha and grass sweeper etc. haha I love all the service you can do here!! I'm really getting the hang of the Samoan lifestyle!!

-Sister Hymas

Inspiration for the week!! Believe in what you're doing. Believe in who you are. Believe in what you are becoming. Because you are a son or daughter of God and He believes in you!! (its a song look it up and listen)