week 100

Hello family, hows it?

Well this week was a crazy week! Ha it was ridiculously busy! We only had 5

lessons but we had 2 baptisms and one new investigator! Haha yeah Fiji isn't

too big with holidays! Some churches celebrate Good Friday, but they still

dont do a whole lot on it. Yes, sorry Mother, I dont even know what the

flight plans are. I know May 11th is when we leave. No idea what time or all

that jazz. How was conference? Sounds like a good one! Yeah we didnt watch

or listen to it yet. We will probably watch it this next week but I am

tempted just to go to the chapel and watch it online. So well see about

that.

So yeah we have finally moved in and got things situated! Our new flat is

awesome!! I love it! Especially because our Branch President and his family

live right below! Its way fun! We got everything brand new too! The other

elders took all the old stuff and we got hooked up with the new stuff!

Seriously like everything brand new.  We were supposed to get most of it on

Monday and Tuesday, but like everything else in Fiji, they move and get

things done very very slowly. So we didnt get it all until Saturday. But

when we did get it, it was like Christmas! So yeah we are happy and stoked

for it. We went to clean the old flat twice this week. Thursday we cleaned

from like 9-3 or something like that but luckily there were a lot of us,

like 8 of us that helped. We had our Zone Training Meeting and there was

another meeting that President came up to do so we decided to make it a

combined meeting so it was like a mini zone conference. It went well, we did

our training on Diligence, and so we are just trying to get everyone excited

and go to work! We are the only ones who can stop ourselves. We need to go

get whatever we want. If we are prayerful about it and rely on Heavenly

Father, he will help us reach it. He will show us, just how much or how far

we can go. So it went well. But with all that it was hectic! We had to take

care of 20 missionaires so it was a pain trying to find something for all of

them to do. Some were supposed to go back and their truck got all messed up

on the way so they had to come back at like 11:30 at night and then we had

to take the truck the next day to Labasa and there was a leadership training

with President for all the Branch Presidents so we had to take the Distrcit

President also...ha it was crazy. We drove 259 kilometers in one day. We

have a limit each month of 2,000 kilometers. Right now after one week...we

are at 830 something. Haha we have been driving everywhere!! Saturday we

were pretty much driving and doing things non stop from 8 am until 8 pm. But

man once we got everyone back to their areas, and did all of the stuff we

had to do, I went home and just crashed! We had to go to Labasa earlier in

the week to do a baptism interview for them. So yeah we did a lot of

driving..

We have been really busy too trying to help finish two mission forms for

these two girls who are getting ready. We are helping them finish and their

forms are now with President Klingler. The one who already had his

interview, Kima, is now a ward missionary for Tacilevu...Its awesome! He

replaced the one who went to Papa New Guinea. (PNG)

Our baptisms on Sunday were awesome! We went to the church early to help

President Vatu fill out the Aaronic Priesthood certificates and update the

records.  We then went to Vunivesi for the baptism. Masi is 10, his family

are members and Driu is 9 and his family is not. His whole family came to

the baptism though. These two kids are awesome! They love learning the

gospel and going to church. The meeting was so simple, but the spirit was

way strong! We sang Come Follow Me for the opening hymn and I look over to

Drius older sister, who is in her 20s and she is crying. We continue, I talk

on Baptism, Sis. Mela, the wife of the unit leader, spoke on the Holy Ghost.

We went down to the water...Did the baptism. I baptized Masi and Elder

LeDoux baptized Driu. It was awesome. We came back and they shared their

testimonies. We started the sacrament meeting but in the closing prayer of

the baptism, the mother of Masi was praying and she started crying and then

we all said amen, and I look up and everyone is crying! Even Drius sister

and mother. It was awesome to see. True we are just meeting in a small

little house in the middle of the forest, but the Spirit was there and the

true gospel of Jesus Christ was being taught. So we are really hoping to

begin lessons with Drius family. He is only 9 years old, but he is such a

good example! He truly loves the church and wants to learn. He wouldnt pray

at the beginning but we taught him how and now he always wants to pray. Its

awesome! We had sacrament, did the confirmations, I confirmed Masi and the

unit leader Peni confirmed Driu. After the sacrament we had a feast!! We

always have a feast over there! We ate pig, fish, chicken, and all of this

other delicious food that you guys don't know yet, but I'll explain it all

when I get home. Weird...that's like 5 weeks! ha We left Vunivesi and then

on the way back stopped by this guys house who is our new investigator,

Timoci, he is awesome and I think he will be a good investigator. After that

we went to the chapel and counted tithing and do all the deposit stuff.

After that we had to go out to Nabua, about 45 minute drive to pick up the

elders because their truck is messed up..

So yeah that was the week! We are hoping to have at least one more baptism

this month...maybe 2, so we'll see, hopefully we dont have another week like

we did this past week where we had no time! So yeah I believe that is all

for this week. So have a great week! Love you guys!

Vakaukauwa tiko!

Moce toka!

Elder Hansen