Elder Love's Samoan Adventures

Malo Lava! First week in Samoa man. the mission ain't no joke. still don't know what people are saying for the most part.. don't have enough vocab down and the way people speak is much different than the written language. Good thing though the people are all saints. super nice and super respectful. We will be walking down the road and people will come up to us with a bag of food they just bought for us or they will just hand us cash. We are teaching this sweet old lady right now named Emi.. she is committed to be baptized in a couple weeks. This week we are baptizing a massive dude named Tasi.. I have been there for a couple of his lessons and I am able to give a simple testimony and one sentence explanations of some principles but that's about it. However, I am learning and I'm not gonna give up. "I will go and I will do".. the Lord didn't call me to Samoa to fail. he called me to teach his people and bring them the gospel. In order to do that I n

Malo Soifua! o a mai outou? I am here! I am literally in samoa and let me tell you it is absolutely beautiful. I thought lake powell was the prettiest place on earth but this place competes for sure. soo it has been a pretty busy past few days so let me fill you in. we left the MTC on sunday morning and flew to san fran and had a 7 hour layover and then flew to new zealand where we had a 3 hour layover and then we finally made it to Apia, Samoa. we spent the first night in the mission home and we had some delicious samoan food for dinner. we had training that night and the next morning and then we were all assigned to our areas. I got assigned to American Samoa! so me, Elder's Esplin, Irvine, Te'o, Zembal, and Manu hopped on this tiny plane and flew 20 minutes over the pacific to tutuila (american samoa). My companion's name is elder Lavaka and he is from Tonga. He is a buff rugby player and it pretty decent at english but it is pretty hard for me to understan him because h

Talofa! This is my last week on the continent for two years!!  The MTC has been such an amazing experience and I have had so much fun and learned so much! I can't wait to get out to Samoa and really learn the language!  This week has been fun! highlights/events include: -While playing basketball, I stuffed Elder Palepoi sooo hard at gym time It felt amazing. -Elder Faamausili got temporarily reassigned to Oakland, Cali because he is on visa wait. Apparently he didn't know that he had to do visa stuff before he got here and he didn't fill out any of the forms soooo.. he is gonna be in Cali for a couple transfers. -I made a master grammar sheet with all of the sentence structures and everything on it/front and back and laminated it. I know that sounds boring but it is one of the best things I have ever done in my life.  -I also made a scripture box/case out of cardboard and tape for my triple combo in Samoan and it is amazing. I don't want my