this week was greattt and probably one of the most busiest and cool weeks leaving us absolutely exhausted at the end of each day! haha! and this week was filled with miracles!! So grateful and blessed...iam just going to try my best to write as much as I can:
First off, two of our friends accepted baptism this week Suesue and Ropati! it was awesome and i am excited to help teach them the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And we also have some friends we plan on inviting this week that we feel very excited for!! Also, guess what!??! hard work really does pay off...we had 10 people come to church this past sunday!!!!! for our 3 wards!! IT was crazy awesome!! and they were truly miracles...for example: we have this friend named Toalua who we have been teaching and its been great, but every time we go and her mom is at the house (her moms name is Mataniu) its awkward and uncomfortable because she is not very nice to us at all. she was very short and grumpy with us and sometimes sent us away with out even being able to talk to toalua and we never went inside the house she always named us sit our under the tree with toalua...so on this past saturday we went and toalua was doing yard work and the mom was outside watching and we were like oh no...BUt when she saw us she grabbed some more chairs and set it up so we could sit with her and we were like oh okay... and then she goes on to tell us how she hasn't been to church (shes cathloic) in a very long time i think it was like 10 years and how she's just been kind of angry and sad for awhile and been praying to God for help and then she said she realized one night while praying "what if these missionaries are angels that God is sending to me and they come everyday everyday rain or hot sun and I just keep sending them away and being mean" she prayed for forgiveness and told us she will listen to what we have to say!!! aHHH it was so a blessing that had nothing to do with us only her faith! and we invited her to chuch and she came with toalua and her other two daughters and toaluas kids!!
Also, our friend mua finally came to church and she loved it!! and the ward members where so nice to her nad there was a fireside sunday night and muas husband came and had a good time and wants to talk with us when he is not working.
Also, we are teaching this lady named faatima who has already been coiming to church for a while and we started talking to her mom named Aitasi (and shes is kind of like Mataniu hasnt been to church in awhile except for she let us in and we have had some really cool spiritul talks with her) and we invited her to church adn prayed taht she would come and she did!! and then it just gets cooler haha just yesterday when we were at Matanius house we told her we were going to our next apt with a lady named aitast that lives in vilimaa and she was like "Aitasi? that is my little sister!" haha it turns out that these sisters had a change of heart and both came to church on the same sunday just different wards and they didn't even know that the other one was talking with us too haha!!
Also, I want to say the importance of members before mua came to churhc we were trying to do everythhing to ensure that she would come this week so we invited Apu a member to come with us for a lesson! and it was unforgettable the spirit was so strong as apu began to share some of her life experience with mua and then mua was going through something so similar and they both were crying together and strengthening eachothers testimonies! so cool I just remember sitting there thinking I am never going to forget this moment! and how important members are in the work!!
WOw okay that was long haha! I am so grateful and find myself on my knees at the end of each day for quite some time thanking my Heavenly Father for this wonderful opportunity!
Well thank you for listening! I hope you all have a great week and I love you all so much!!!!
-Sister Hymas
You are all awesome!!!
