Elder Love's Samoan Adventures

Sole! sorry i missed last week friends my companion and i put in some extra p-day work and we didn't have time to write emails.. but a lot has been happening in this crazy old island of samoa.. Since the last time i wrote we have found and taught some new people and we have 3 people who are really looking good for baptism in the next month. we are going on a ton of splits with members in the ward to try and find new friends and it really is the grind right now.. i'll tell you guys about my absolutely favorite friend whose name is sene.. this guy is 57 and single and is literally hilarious man he is like the weirdest dude of all time but he is soo awesome.. ever since we started teaching him he has come to his ward on sunday and he goes to the other wards sacrament meeting too. He had the chance to come see the devotional with the prophet and he loved that too. we went and visited him yesterday to teach him about the word of wisdom and he is like, "ou te fia papatiso i

Malo Soifua! this was a crazy week! last tuesday me and my companion sat down about ready to plan for the day in our beautiful area of amanave and all of a sudden we get a call from the zone leaders and they told us to say a prayer and then before you know it, "Elder Love... you are getting transferred to Savaii" sooolllleee i was freakin out like it was the middle of the transfer and right when me and my companion were really starting to see the fruits of our labors BOOM i was gone on the plane to upolu the next day and later that night took the boat over to savaii. ( sorry mom that's the reason I didnt email or call) so if you guys don't know i was in American Samoa for my whole mission and this is actually my first time in legit samoa and its dope! dang this week has just been a whirl trying to get to know the members and get a feel for the area.. My companions name is elder Sauni and he is from new zealand and he is the most humble dude I love him. He has been h

Malo le Soifua ma le lagi e mama! hello my dear friends! this week was smashing. let me get into it. we had stake conference and there was this activity on saturday where we the missionaries were given assignments to teach 1 of 4 mini lessons about the restoration, prophets, members and missionary work, and the book of mormon. me and my companion got the assignment to teach about prophets. we told every single member we could to invite their friends so they could come and hear and we were so excited to get some new contacts but we got there and legit no one brought a friend... so ya we had a good lesson with the members. i hope they are more strengthened now to want to bring a friend next time... We have two friends who will be baptized next month. Vai'au is the dopest 12 year old kid ever. we found him by visiting a less active house and he wasn't baptized so now we are just having the best time teaching this kid. he eats everything up Phyllis is the girl who we met two