Elder Love's Samoan Adventures

Man it's been a fat couple weeks! the zone leader life is definitely different that is for sure. we have our own proselytizing area and we actually are covering two different ones right now waiting for more missionaries. we are in the car mostly all day and instead of just thinking about my own area I now have to think about every area in the zone, logistics, leading, and a bunch of other responsibilities. i don't like the word overwhelming but I am definitely unsettled right now kinda like at the beginning of the mission. it is awesome though. i am learning a ton and i know that either the zone needs me, i need this calling, or both. It will definitely stretch me but that is definitely a good thing. My new companion elder tiatia is awesome. his brother is actually serving in salt lake city and the funny thing is, he is companions with a guy from american samoa named mau gisa, who me and elder masuisui used to go with on splits all the time back last year in malaeimi. we lov

Hello friends and family, I have now left my son elder puletua with an even better missionary, elder skabelund, to finish his training. I am now companions with a missionary from new zealand and he is the best. he was my zone leader in the very beginning of my mission and now I have the amazing opportunity to be companions with him until the end of his mission here on the north side of savaii. We are zone leaders for the whole north side of savaii so we are in the car a lot which is definitely a big change from grinding on the streets for the first year of my mission. I am definitely super excited to learn as much as i can from one of my biggest idols on the mission: elder tiatia! I have a testimony that this is God's work and I am so grateful to give 2 years of my life for it. I hope you are all doing well! Elder Love

so this week has been good, we are really searching for new friends, we started doing a small little "preach my gospel" class with two youth who are preparing to serve missions. we have had amazing lessons with to'oto'o where he just won't accept the truth but we are gonna go back one more time to see what we can do. samuelu dipped, and we are trying to teach this guy who has been coming to church but he is completely dumb--he can't speak , read, or write that well so that's a dead end. i think the atonement will cover that guy! i am studying deeply about the house of israel, the scattering and gathering, the apostasy and the restoration. its crazy i love studying the gospel so much it's kinda weird. it's just awesome to see how much joy i get from studying the gospel! --------------------------------------------- Some pictures near the 1-year mark...