week 97

Hello my family! Hows it going? I am exhausted....weird, what else is new?

but like dad said, I can sleep when I get home! Well we only had a day and a

half in our area this week. We went to Taveuni and ended up having to go to

Rabi also...It's been way busy!!

Well lets give you the answers to your questions.....baptism

interviews....yes we do some, but only for the District Leaders. The DLs do

it for their districts, we do it for the DLs. We just did two on Saturday in

Labasa. That was a long day! Ill tell you about that later.

The pictures. The last one with the two girls is Lusia in the back (baptized

her in November) and Kapopwe (dont know how to spell her name). It was her

birthday. The picture with the old people, that is from Rabi. Our branch

presidents wifes parents on the left. He gave us a massage again! One is

pday, we played touch. The one with the boat is the Sherrys...senior Couple

from Taveuni...they go home this week.

So yeah this week we had our zone training meetings. Both here on this

island and we also did it in Taveuni.We had a problem deciding what to do

our training on, we couldnt think of anything good. Well the morning of the

training we finally figured it out!! Haha last minute! One of our

companionships had a big problem and one didnt want to go back to the area.

For a couple days, they werent talking and the one just wanted to go home

(he's from Fiji). Well with that we decided to go with Christlike

Attributes, chapter 6 from PMG Charity and Love, Humility, and Patience. We

tied it in with our companionship relations. It went really well. We also

heard feedback from the District Leader that it helped that companionship a

lot and especially the one who wanted to go home. We really didn't really

prepare much, just read from PMG and tied it in...It went very good! We had

a really good activity also. We had a push up contest! There were 4 that did

it but 1 of the 4 would have a backpack full of things that was really

heavy. So the one companionship would do as many as they could and then the

other companionship. One would do really good, but then the other that had

the heavy backpack didn't do well. They all couldnt see each other either so

they didn't know what was going on. Well they need to talk about why the one

did so bad and what was the reason.  So gaining an understanding of the

others point of view and a long with the 3 attributes we talked about, it

went well together. So it was a good experience! The one on this island

happened on Tuesday.

WE met with Tupou and she is awesome! We are really hoping that she will be

strong through the time she is here and then when she goes to the ward in

Suva, she will really see a good and working ward! She is way good though!

We had two baptisms planned for last week, but because we have been gone so

much, we couldnt see them as often as we need to so we have to push it back.

We are going to see them tonight and will reset the baptism date.

Thursday, we went out to Taveuni, we drove about 1.5 hour or so, then we

rode the boat for 1.5 hour again.  It was the worse boat ride ever!! Haha.

The waves were so big and the boat was just going side to side and man, I

just tried to sleep so I wouldn't get sick! Haha the boat itself wasn't the

greatest either. We did the ZTM there in Taveuni when we got there, then we

worked with Elder Gardner the DL. That was fun, then Friday morning, took a

boat ride on a speed boat which was much better to Rabi. We had to take a

stove and chairs out there. Oh yeah on the ride out to Taveuni, we saw a

couple dolphins, I couldnt get a picture of them too haha they are too fast!

We didn't see them very well either. Anyway 2 hours on a boat and then

staying in the sun the whole time in Rabi, it's hot!! I got pretty red!!

That was my last visit to Rabi, it was fun, I would have loved to serve

there. We went with the Sherrys and they did a

little training with the leaders out there. After all that, we left back to

Taveuni. We got back and ate and slept! haha Exhausted! Saturday we took the

boat back to this island and Saturday was full of driving! We drove 250

something Ks so that's like 155 miles. We drove from Natuvu where you catch

the boat back to Savusavu, stopped in Savusavu for a bit, then had to drive

all the way to Labasa to do some interviews, and then drove all the way

back to Savusavu. Boy! Sick of driving! I drove that day too. So that day

was pretty shot. We found another new flat for the other two elders here so

we will be leaving  the purple mansion for good! Elder Hogge just came

again, he's the boss of the houses and all that stuff. He saw our drive way

and said thats a reason right there to leave the flat haha. So next month,

both of us will leave. It's a nice house, just right in town.

So yeah we are hoping to have a better week, we shouldn't be going anywhere

this week. So we are hoping to get some good work done. So that is about it

for the week.  I am getting a haircut today...All is well...Keep up the good

work back home....Thats about all I can think of about the week...SO love

you guys!! Have a good week!!

Elder Hansen