week 41

Ni sa bula vinaka!

What's good family? How are things? Yeah, I saw Houston on the front page

when I got on. That sucks! Happy Valentines too! Sounds like all is going

good! Yeah, Hillyard is not happy! He was suppose to be off the island a

couple days ago but because of the weather he hasn't been able so I don't

know if he is there today or not. His mom is here already though. He is a

crazy kid! Well this week was a little slow. We didn't get to see some of

the people we wanted and transfers were this week too! Yashko has been

transferred to Burewai now. Haha funny huh? I am now with a ward missionary

from Savusavu. Elder Myer, my last comp, baptized him about 6 months ago. So

he is a recent convert and I just met him this morning. He seems really cool

though. It will be interesting. I don't know how long I'll be with him but I

just want to help him learn and show him how fun the mission is so he wants

to serve. So we'll see what happens! Like I said, not a whole lot happened

this week but we did have a cool experience though. We went to this house

and there were like 7-8 people there, not of all the same family,  and we

were just going to share an intro lesson. Well, the Methodist preacher was

there sitting in on it. Haha it was funny. We didn't really worry about him,

just focused on the people.  He ended up not saying ONE word the whole time.

It really surprised us! It was good though, there were a few that were very

interested. There was one kid, 20 years old, named Alfred. He came to the

house just to hang out, didn't know what we were doing there. He just sat in

and listened and became very interested. After the lesson we were just

talking about stuff. I was answering his questions. It was just 1 on 1 with

me and him, just chilling and talking. He all of sudden said, man I want to

be like you! I want to preach the gospel. I told him that he could have the

opportunity if he read the Book of Mormon, prayed, and continued to learn.

He promised he would come to church this next Sunday so we'll see if he

comes. He was a way cool kid. I think we could have a great potential

investigator with him. Oh yeah, also at that house, the wife's mom stays

there and she is 99!!!! She came out laughing and shaking our hand. Haha it

was crazy!! So funny dream! I had a dream that dad and the whole bishopric

wore sulu's at my homecoming and then after that, it was the cool thing to

wear and I came back to Fiji and bought a ton more so all the young men and

elders could wear them. Haha it was funny! This week I have been doing a lot

of thinking about mission, life, and what not and I have been watching these

church movies multiple times every day, Treasure in Heaven: The John Tanner

Story and Only a Stonecutter: Story of John Rowe Moyle, and I absolutely

love them! Especially the John Tanner one. If you guys can find them, I

highly recommend them!! They are very short but powerful!! Just about giving

their lives to the church and truly living the law of consecration. I was

thinking about how I am doing at that. I really want to give my all and my

life to the church. It's awesome! I love it! So yeah that's about all for

the week. Oh yeah, we taught the young women's class last Sunday too. The

pictures are some of the best I have taken! A lot of sunsets. The pictures

can't get the real view of it, it's different but the ones here, were

exactly how it was! Haha it was sweet!! Yashko is the one with the goofy

face. So yeah, love you all! Try to watch those two movies! Peace n

blessings!!

Be who you are designed and capable to become!

Elder Tukai (Hansen)