week 99

Hello family! Once again sorry I am late! We have been cleaning and moving

today. We still have some things to move and clean, but we are excited for

our move! Its very small, but we feel its going to be very nice! I also

forgot my planner that has things I want to tell you so forgive me if its

kind of short today! Thats sweet you went with the Muirs, haha they are just

being nice! They are good people! I am glad to hear you got tickets too from

Tremea.  I told him thank you for you. I am excited to meet his

parents...hes the man! Uhhh what day is/was easter?? None of us know...haha

shows you how we celebrated it! The package was good! The eggs held up

really good. Haha I was surprised. Well, like I said today is moving day, so

we have just been doing that.

Tupou leaves for Suva tomorrow. She will be going to school, we are very

excited for her though. She is doing good!

We will be having 2 baptisms in Vunivesi this week. We are excited for that!

They are awesome! 9 and 10 years old. Our zone had 4 baptisms this last

week. So its going pretty good, one area is giving us a headache.  We have

talked to them 3 times and 3 weeks in a row its been the same thing with

their numbers so I think President is just going to call them. We also had a

great Sunday in Vunivesi, we have 2 receive the priesthood! Aisake who is 15

and Semi, the one I baptized before...our 2nd baptism here...big hair guy.

Well he's been reading about the priesthood and stuff and read that they

should be clean dressed and all so he completely cut all of his hair!! Haha

man it's awesome!! I gave him the priesthood. I think that was the first

time I have ever done it and especially the first time in Fijian...haha It

was cool! I had to teach our branch president how to do it in Fijian. It was

good though! There is one more we are working with to receive it...Beni who

we just baptized not too long ago. So that was way good!

We had to go to Labasa for interviews last week and we need to go again

tomorrow for another interview. So we have been doing some traveling. We are

having our Zone Training Meeting on Thursday here in Savusavu and then there

is a Trainers/Trainee meeting on Friday for all those who are training. So

back to back meetings. We are doing our training on Diligence...Just having

that excitement and urge to work! To get things done on time...Studies on

time and leave the flat by 1 and dont come back until 9! Planning how to

fill your day with effective activities so fill up those hours. So we are

excited for it, we have some good ideas..

Our Zone Leaders Council was good also. We went to Suva on Thursday and came

back on Friday. Just a short trip. It was pretty good, we talked about

always being positive. So for these meetings all the ZLs pick a topic to

bring up and discuss on behalf of their zone and also the mission as a

whole. Our topic this time was always being positive. Sometimes we try so

hard to find a problem in the zone and then it seems worse than it really is

so we just talked about always being positive! It went good! I really liked

Sister Klinglers training. I think this one was one of my favorites of hers.

She talked about Charity and Love. But one of my favorite parts of it was

from a scripture in Moroni 10:32-33. A phrase that really hit was "deny

yourselves from all ungodliness". We talked about what that meant and what

not and we had a really good discussion! Anything that takes our mind away

from the gospel or that distracts us in our progression just drop it! Dont

do it! We need to have that mind set that we will not do anything ungodly.

As we study and learn the gospel it helps us with this...As we become more

mature in the gospel our view of ungodliness enhances. I have definitely

seen this with me! I think of things back home before and to me they were

not a big deal, oh well type of thing, but now, it's changed. I understand

why those things are ungodly...big things and little things...So the more we

mature and grow in the gospel, those things will naturally become ungodly to

us. It was pretty cool!

I also had a good study out of the Book of Mormon. Sorry Dad, there is no

way I'll be able to finish it again. Haha.  I just read 1 Nephi 16 about the

broken bow. They face a hard time right there, they couldn't get food, they

were all complaining except Nephi, he had faith and relied on the Lord to

provide help for them. What do you know?? Nephi pulls through again and

makes a bow and gets food! Nephi understood what would happen if he

complained like everyone else or if he relied on the Lord. We all know that

the Lords way is the best way so we should not complain. Richard G. Scott

said something like the trials we face in our life that dont come from

disobedience, is the Lord showing us that we have something to learn or an

opportunity to grow. In order for us to grow, we have to be stretched and

that usually includes pain and discomfort (which I am feeling in my legs!)

haha but yeah it was really good! I am still reading it, its just hard

because somedays we dont even do studies and this week we have been studying

for our training.

Uhh, I am trying to think what else I was going to tell you that I wrote on

my planner...my bad! So yeah things are going good! The last 6 weeks just

going to push push and push! Keep trying to get our branch a little more

organized and trained and with our missionaries just get the attitude of

work! WORK WORK WORK! Just finish strong! I really like the scripture from 1

Chronicles 28 i think 8-9 or 9-10 maybe I can't remember. It's when Solomon

was called to build the temple and it says to know and serve God and to know

the we have been chosen and to be strong and do it! Nike..."just do it"

haha. So yeah things are going good! President is good. Our zone is doing

good, we are happy! So yeah all is well here! Have a great week! If i forgot

to tell you anything I will tell you next week. I will try to send some

pictures today too. So love you guys! Moce!

Elder Hansen