Elder Love's Samoan Adventures

it's been a while since i emailed but lets hit yall with the updates: - the work is going great over here in Vavau with my awesome companion elder semeatu, we are working hard in our area and are loving working with the whole zone! yesterday i had a chance to go on an all day split with elder te'o! elder te'o and i went to the mtc together and this is the first time we have been in the same zone together in the field. it was such an awesome day catching up with him and really noticing how much we have both changed but how close we still are. - this next month is looking amazing!! if everything goes according to plan, we should be marrying 5 part member couples and baptizing one member of each couple. it has been super busy trying to work everything out with these couples, in fact today we just got back from town where we had to check whether or not the previous divorce of one of the couples went through, so that they can get married to their new partner. and thankfully it w

so i am dead tired right now. long story short i just got transferred from my home in savaii to upolu. i didn't have any time to say goodbye to families even though i have been there for the past 8 months. let's just say my heart is a little achy right now thinking about all the friends i have made over there and how i didn't have a chance to say a proper goodbye. i hope i will have a chance to go back over before my mission is over and see them all again or its gonna break my heart cuz that's my family over there man. anyway i know the pain will pass after a while cuz i just got transferred to upolu south, which is back side upolu, and it is widely known as the most beautiful zone in our entire mission. and after driving through it today i agree 100%. my new companion is amazing as well, his name is Elder Semeatu and he is from Australia. he finishes in april but we are determined to work our butts off and blow it up down here! honestly i don't know what to say, i

Today was awesome. we went up this morning to saleaula to play some basketball with elder skabelund and elder misailegalu and i am humble to say that i defended my streak in 21 for three straight times. skabelund thinks he is gonna beat me next time but i am already planning my 4peat. it was cool too when we were sitting down taking a break we had this really nice drunk guy come on to the basketball court to wish us a happy new year and he kissed us all on the head. so we all got our new years kiss!! it has been a nice chill day, getting some really good rest. This week has been awesome! it has been so fun to proselyte in our area because everyone has just become good friends! i love the samoan people man its just so fun to be with them and joke around with them and when we are so lucky to have a great gospel lesson with them. this week we are helping one of our friends named jaimie prepare for her baptism next week! she has done lessons before but her grandma stopped her from being