Week 62 - Lefagaoali'i - Measles outbreak
Hello friends and family...
so first off as you all may have heard there is a breakout of measles here in the islands and it has affected samoa. up to the last thing i have heard there have been 63 deaths and most of them being little children. there have been efforts to get everyone vaccinated but the death toll still goes up every day. so for the next two days everything is going to be shut down and all of us missionaries will not be proselyting until night for a couple hours. so for the next couple days we will all be staying home with the hopes of stopping the spread of the disease.
this week of proselyting has been very good work as well as a very good test of patience. we are trying to do all that we can to find those who are prepared in this area and there are many people that are not but there are also a few promising friends that we are working really hard to help. one of them is named Nooata. he is a very strong methodist and we found him by visiting a less active who also lives at his house. he has a very strong personality but we have been able to gain his trust over the past few visits and we have really been trying to discern his need and find his hook. in our last visit we were talking about the fall of adam and eve and along with the trusty 2 nephi 2 we were able to help him understand the true meaning of the fall. we really think he was hooked. we can't wait to go back and visit him this saturday where he said he would read the rest of that chapter!!!
we are trying to work on visiting less actives and finding friends through them.
so first off as you all may have heard there is a breakout of measles here in the islands and it has affected samoa. up to the last thing i have heard there have been 63 deaths and most of them being little children. there have been efforts to get everyone vaccinated but the death toll still goes up every day. so for the next two days everything is going to be shut down and all of us missionaries will not be proselyting until night for a couple hours. so for the next couple days we will all be staying home with the hopes of stopping the spread of the disease.
this week of proselyting has been very good work as well as a very good test of patience. we are trying to do all that we can to find those who are prepared in this area and there are many people that are not but there are also a few promising friends that we are working really hard to help. one of them is named Nooata. he is a very strong methodist and we found him by visiting a less active who also lives at his house. he has a very strong personality but we have been able to gain his trust over the past few visits and we have really been trying to discern his need and find his hook. in our last visit we were talking about the fall of adam and eve and along with the trusty 2 nephi 2 we were able to help him understand the true meaning of the fall. we really think he was hooked. we can't wait to go back and visit him this saturday where he said he would read the rest of that chapter!!!
we are trying to work on visiting less actives and finding friends through them.
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