Sent: Sunday, July 03,
2016 5:31 PM (MDT)
Monday, July 04, 2016 10:31 AM (Vanuatu)
happy fourth of july!
so this month, my mission president has really been pushing
and trying to breathe urgency and excitement into the missionaries here and he
has thus dubbed july a month of miracles. he's given a few training sessions in
which i attended which he talked about how to achieve miracles and what holds
us back from them. good stuff. really great mission president over here. all
yous in america should be jealous! just kidding. coveting is a sin.
anywho. this week was pretty nice. we have quite a few
people we're working with and doing our best to have miracles. in the context
of missionary work, a miracle being someone changing their life around and
choosing to follow christ into the waters of baptism.
i and my companion of three transfers now, elder omilig,
have really started to hit a stride in our teaching. like. we're getting better
and better about focusing on the spirit of the lesson and teaching true
doctrine than the words in the pamphlet. also something kinda clicked in my
head this week. the one thing that i have that no one else on the entire planet
has is my testimony. and therefore, that should be one of the key points of my
teaching. bearing my testimony and feeling the truthfulness of what im saying
through the spirit as i tell it. we've been teaching one dude who is really
active in another church and we're asking him, by asking him to be baptized, to
change his whole life. abandon his sins and his less than perfectly true church
to become a disciple of christ. and yeah.
missionary work in general is both really easy and really
hard. you don't have to worry about paying rent or having enough money for food
or passing exams at school or anything like that. the only thing you get to
worry about really is your investigators. that's what makes it easy. but what
makes it hard is leaving all that other stuff, leaving those big chunks of your
personality and knowledge by the wayside and focusing on spiritual
things.
one really awesome experience i had this week is... remember
last week about how i talked about how we gave a pamphlet to the neighbor of a
market stall? well. if you don't remember go re read that cuz im not gonna type
all that out again. so we went to the return appointment to the neighbor of the
market stall and............ surprise surprise she wasn't home.. but! the
original market stall referral who we hadn't talked to in months! was home and
gladly received us and we taught her again. when we first taught her, my
bislama was very very bad. and now my relative fluency, it was a really awesome
moment/teaching opportunity and i had the most dorky smile on my face the whole
lesson.
also. the pictures. so we went to ward correlation meeting
one night and the 4 sisters who are also in our ward didn't show up.. so on
arrival i found a kid using a bush knife to make some kindling/cutting fire
wood. cut some fire wood. remembering the good ol' boy scout days. and then the
2nd counselor from our ward came out and gave us a frying pan and some small
fish to fry. and that is the result. kinda scary looking, right? so apparently
you can eat the fish whole when they're that small. like bones, head and all.
very crunchy. but it was good. life is good.
so the pictures are
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ward correlation meeting(one of the sister
missionaries in my ward took the picture)
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the fried fish
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P-day bball team
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[missing] and a type of chip here that i really
really like. peanut ruffs. really really really addictive. but a really big bag
is only like 100 vatu so...
that's all for now!
elder Hyatt VI
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