week 85

Mi'au ba bula re motou!

Haha you like those pictures eh? Haha it was entertaining. How are the

temple lights this year? Thanks for the box! It was good no worries! Today I

opened the last thing! That is bomb Marcia is moving to Utah! Does she know

where yet? or what area at least? So Wednesday we will skype after studies

probably and lunch...around 12 or 1 ish. Elder Ledoux and I are going to the

Terry's to skype. They only have one camera so might be a little later if

Ledoux goes first.  I dont know but it will be around then.  So

yeah...Tomorrow, everyone on the island will be going to Labasa and we will

be having a zone service in the morning and then in the night...Chow mada!!

We will all eat at the Terries. It's going to be fun! Wednesday we go to

Suva too...Wednesday at like 5. We were in our area for only 2.5/3 days this

week and this next week it will be the same thing. We will get back Friday

but work in the Labasa with the District Leader there and then Saturday be

in the area. We were in Seaqaqa on exchanges this week. It was way fun to

see all the people there! You remember the Raiwailui.  We went to their

house and she was way surprised. She looked at me...Looked down at the badge

and took it off and said you are not wearing this so that means I can do

this! She hugged me and kissed me on the cheek hahah then she said ok now

you can put it back on! It was pretty funny! She said things are a lot

different now then when I was there. Tough over there...but we are trying to

get it going. We saw most of the members which was way cool. So we got back

to our area on Friday and Rabi is with us still. So we had an oym day. We

had 60 oyms in 3 days. That's easily the most I have had in my mission.

Ledoux and Tremea did a lot of them. They had the oym spirit those days

haha. We are doing a  training on the 1st about finding people and

emphasizing oym. We should easily have more than we do so we want to fix

that. Now everyone is gone because of Christmas so its pretty dead, so what

can you do? OYM! I think it will be a good training. We had a really good

sunday school class yesterday too about work. This week I am going to do a

specific study on work, but a few things we talked about were as we work and

help others that brings that love for them. As missionaries we are always

working to help others and you can tell how much you love them by how much

you work for them. God does everything for us, so he loves us. That's why

work is so important in the gospel because as we live the gospel, we are

showing our love to Him and he will bless us for our work. He is just

waiting to bless us  but it's up to us.  Like the King Benjamin said as we

serve others we serve God, the other side to look, as we are lazy to others,

we are lazy to God. Take your pick which one...haha WORK!! We also talked

about importance of not killing ourselves and not going too easy. If we work

too hard than we cant work effectively...We are tired, no rest..a quote in

the gospel principles book..."Doing nothing is the hardest work of all,

because one can never stop to rest. Work helps us realize the importance and

meaning of rest and relaxation." Sabbath day...We rest on Sunday...If we

work all day everyday, the Sabbath day has no meaning to us, rest doesn't

exist. So it was really good!! I learned a lot. I saw a while back a video

of Lavell Edwards in priesthood session after BYU won the champaionship back

in the day and he said if a player can play well before his mission he for

sure will play well after...If he cant play well before, he probably still

wont play well after, but hell have a better chance. He talked about how he

knows himself, hes learned how to succeed. I have been thinking about that a

lot in my mission. I have come to know myself more, and realized the pattern

to success in everything...Football, gospel, whatever it may be...So yeah

its been good! Another thing I have thought about a lot lately too is why do

you start to understand and learn all of this at the end of your mission??

If you knew all this earlier you would be way better! But then you look back

at the success you had when you didnt know all these things... just

something I have thought about and how the mission really  does prepare you

for things after the mission. The Lord has his ways, whatever it may be...we

need to follow it! So yeah that's about all this week! I read about Brother

of Jared too this week..he was the man!!! So yeah we will talk more

Wednesday. All is well! Love you guys!

Elder Hansen