Elder Love's Samoan Adventures

Malo soifua! Matua a'asa le la sole!! (extremely scorching the sun bro!) haha that phrase has been said all week by me and my comp! it was a very hot week but an even better week for finding! earlier in the week we talked to a member and she referred us to a new family who had just moved in. There is the mom and her 5 kids. apparently they had been coming to church for the past three weeks and when we went and talked to them they just seemed ready man. We are gonna visit them again later after we go buy them some scriptures and hymn books from the distribution center. God is always preparing people. So awesome that our job as missionaries is just to have faith and be obedient and God will bless us with those he has prepared. We plan on inviting them to baptism letsssss goooo! so exciting man. another one of our friends is named Iosefa. we found this guy just by knocking on his door down this back road I had never gone. He is a 7th day aventist and he is awesome man. at the end of o...

Ou uso pele e ma tuafafine, Talofa! Your Elder is just getting skinnier while your other Elder Masuisui is just getting fatter. Its going incredibly well out here especially since I bought an outrageously good quality speaker from the local Chinese store for 13 bucks so I can blast my "Samoa Apia mission approved music playlist" music. the morning routine has been jazzed up in dramatic fashion. Nothing like the motab to push me through my gainz session every morning let me tell you. Throwing my orange peels off the third story balcony and trying to land them in the trash can below never gets old. And yes I am actually starting to get used to the cold shower its incredible. this is most likely my last couple weeks in Malaeimi so I am really trynna to give it all I got and really blow this area up for the next elders. A lot of finding has been happening these past couple of weeks and we've been visiting a ton of members trying to get some referrals. I'll tell a short st...

Hello! Tauuma got baptized! yessss he is the man let me tell you. unfortunately we forgot to snap a pick so that is unfortunate. he is the man tho just imagine the Samoan version of Ryan Gosling and boom that's Tauuma. I've gotta keep this one short cuz I really want to take a nap here on this fine preparation day. also this whole emailing business is really hard for me because as it says in the scriptures I cant even say "a hundredth part" of the things that come to pass here, and not only that like all my feelings and spiritual experiences. I am not sure how my Sister does it who is serving in Taiwan right now. But don't worry when I get home i am gonna publish my mission journals so you guys can read up and not miss a single day! But speaking about my sister she is on her last transfer in her mission. I have been reading her emails and dang.. you know that song "how can I be" that talks about all the heroes and prophets in the Book of Mormon and how t...

Transfer number 4 has come and I get one more blessed transfer in Malaeimi with Elder Masuisui! Time is going by so fast. too fast man how am I already 6 months out?! Why is time like this man. As Elder Masuisui said, "Time is like a girl, it never does what you want it to unless you manage it wisely". haha that kinda sounds messed up but its so true man when you want time to go fast it seems like it takes forever and when you want it to go slow it goes by in a flash. Either way we gotta use the time wisely. Me and my companion are teaching a friend and we don't want to jinx it but we really think the spirit is working with this guy and if he accepts the gospel it will be a miracle. We contacted him actually by knocking on a door by another one of our friends house and he was eager to talk to us. The first time we talked he was quoting bible verses like none other and he was all about "the word of god" and so on. As we tried to share the Book of Mormon he re...

Guess who's back.. back again This weeks letter will be short and sweet: The work is going awesome. Only a week and a half until we get to see our new homie tauuma get dressed in white :))) we have some more promising friends right now. The work is going good. next week is transfers so who knows whats gonna happen?! either way ill always be an #imiboyforlife peep the pics Lo'u Molimau (My Testimony - translation below) Ou te faafetai mo le taulaga faavavau a Iesu Keriso ma le avanoa e tala'i ai lana talalelei. E leai se galuega sili ona taua nai lo le galuega faafaifeautalai. E amu'ia a'u ona o le avanoa e avea a'u ma se sui o le alii faaola Iesu Keriso. E leai se mea e faatusaina. Ou te aioi atu ia te outou e faitau ma suesue i le tusi a mamona. O le tusi a mamona o se faamaoniga faatalitonuina o le toefuataiga o le talalelei e ala mai le perofeta o iosefa samita. Talitonu i le tusi a mamona. Afai tou te le talitonu i le tusi a mamona, ia Talitonu ia Iesu Keris...

Still reppin malaeimi baby. This place is like my second home man. Me and my comp Elder Masuisui are working hard out here trynna find and teach. riding the ups and downs with faith that God's got us and that he's got all of our friends. was kinda sick this past week with a hecka stuffy nose and a cough... as my fam knows whenever I get a cold I get ear infections really quick... so earlier this week I started feeling my right ear acting up and I was like, " e leai sole, not gonna happen bro Iv'e got proselyting tomorrow". so I asked my companion if he could give me a blessing that I would be well enough to do the work of the Lord and he gave me a short fervent blessing. I woke up the next morning with the pain gone and we proselyted the whole day. How amazing is priesthood power? We got a ton of people we are teaching and I am really hopeful with all of them. Just gotta keep praying for them and doing all we can for them. We have a friend who is getting baptized ...

Manuia le tausaga fou! I hope everyone had a great new years celebration! this was the first year that I didn't stay up till twelve haha ya boi needs his sleep. I don't have a ton of words this week but its been amazing here in Samoa. Learning something new every single day. a little update in the work-- we contacted a nice 19 year old kid named 'Tauuma' and started to teach him over the past week. He is a very humble kid and he accepted the invitation to be baptized. It is such a joy being able to help him understand the restored gospel. Can't wait to see him progress and develop as we keep teaching him. random things: - we met a new Filipino family who are like beyond amazing. nicest people on earth. their son really like tennis so we might go play with him on a p-day. - Elder Masuisui bought a 42 dollar Underarmour shirt because he thinks he looks swole in it - We were given 100 dollars the other day at Carl's Jr buy food so that was nice Because it is the ne...