Sent: Sunday, May 08,
2016 6:37 PM (MDT)
Monday, May 09, 2016 11:37 AM (Vanuatu)
so saturday was transfers.
and just taking this marker as like. looking back on what i've
done. what i've learned and who i've helped over the last 6 weeks. and like.
yeah i've taught a lot of lessons. learned a language. and grown in my
testimony. but it's kinda discouraging because none of my investigators are
progressing. they love what we're telling them. love meeting with us. then
suddenly they are never home. don't want to come to church. and they become
former investigators. sigh. new challenges every day.
since im training im not gonna be leaving this area this
transfer. but it's just kinda crazy to think. my mission is already 1/16th
over. ahhh!!!! season of excitement. one statement i read once said that
according to some obscure scripture, we know that 1000 years is one day for
God. so a mission. is like. 2 minutes of god's time. so better make the most of
it. because i only have 2 minutes to be his missionary.
so. book of mormon readings. due to my fear of 2 nephi, i
started in mosiah when i came to vanuatu. and this week i finished moroni. and
jacob to mosiah. fell asleep while reading jacob 5. hah... but the end of jacob
5 really stuck out to me. jacob 5L72. that we are laboring and the lord is
laboring right along side with us. really weird to think about. that god is
laboring next to me. doing his hardest to try and help these people as much as
i am.
as far as the people im helping. so the people of vanuatu
don't have a lot of things to take up their time here. so that means they tend
to drift to breaking word of wisdom and law of chastity and such. and pretty
much none of the guys here want religion. i mean like. young guys. most of the
people we teach are widows or mamas or old dudes. it's all good. the lord works
in his timing.
some pretty good views here. that
one big building with the blue roof kinda dome looking or cone looking? my
house is like a 20 min walk past that. n i took that picture from inside my
area. lotsa walking. i've befriended quite a few dogs. the baptismal pic.
sorry. getting off topic. so the two sister missionaries in the picture. it was
their convert and the district leader who woulda done the baptism was swamped
with appointments so they sisters asked if i could do it. my first baptism but
not really mine cuz i didn't teach them. i had to re do the ordinance 3 times
because her hair didn't go under. 
and the last picture is of me and my district. good stuff. i
dunno. i dunno what else to say so, i guess that's all for now.
if anyone wants to send me anything.
Elder Matthew Hyatt
Vanuatu Port Vila Mission Office
P.O. Box 1412
Port Vila, Vanuatu
have a great week!
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