Elder Love's Samoan Adventures

Malo le Soifua ma le palagi e le mama, The missionary life is amazing! I am still loving it out here in Samoa. I loved American Samoa as well but coming here to Savaii has been like the real culture and it's been so fun. I can't remember if I wrote last week but my soa (companion) Elder Sauni got transferred and my new companion is Elder Sauvao from Australia. He used to live here in Samoa so his Samoan is like straight mastaaa so I am learning a lot of respectful language and stuff from him and it's just super exciting. This week was awesome! on Saturday we had a great baptismal service for one of our friends named Kalone who is like 60 years old. He has been a friend for a while but finally got the strength to give up his smoking, so it was an amazing experience to be able to baptize him. We have another baptism this weekend for our other friend named Lasi. We met last at a member's house for dinner and he has been married to a member for a long time but has literally...

Malo Soifua, Things are going amazing here in Fagamalo. We have three people being prepared to be baptized in the next three weeks and I have a new companion! His name is Elder Sauvao and he is from Australia. Things are awesome just doing my best out here especially with this one hour email limit please be easy on me haha but don't worry i know I have been bad I am gonna make a goal to write better emails. Elder Love ----------------------------------------

Malo le soifua ma se palagi e mama, This week was pretty amazing. me and my companion have been working really hard here in fagamalo and we are definitely being blessed to find those who are ready. The water is being filled up right now for a baptism we are having later at 6 o'clock for our dear friend Sene. Not to be partial or anything but this guy has a special place in my heart for sure. He was just divinely prepared by god to receive the gospel at this time. He is getting baptized on a wednesday because he is getting surgery on his leg on friday and he can't get it wet after that so he really wanted to do it before surgery. He is a 57 year old guy who is like off the wall crazy and has the funniest sense of humor but having done lessons me and my comp have really gotten close to him over these past three weeks. We have two other baptisms this month I will explain later! Jesus is the Christ. Elder Love ------------------------------------------ From Aaron's da...

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...

Another transfer and I am going to be staying in amanave with Elder Robertson! This past transfer was a grind and I am really hoping and praying we will see some of the fruits of our labors in these next 6 weeks! This past week we ran into a little miracle this week! after being here over a month we had never heard of this less active family who lives in a village called Seetaga. we went over the next day to see what was going on and we start talking to the old man. he told us that he was a member of the bishopric over in upolu but when he came here he started going to his parents church because if he didn't he couldn't stay here(that is Samoa for you). well eventually his dad died and by the time we visited them he said he was ready to go back the the church of Jesus Christ. We asked him if there wasn't anyone baptized and he said he 12 year old grandson is not. We taught vai'au a little bit and then he gladly accepted the invitation to be baptized next month. the next...