im.... dreamin.... of a stress free..... christmasssssss

Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2017 6:41 PM (MST)
         Monday, December 18, 2017 12:41 PM (Vanuatu) 

hello friends. 

this week has been pretty great! we're doing a lot of planning for the things that will happen for the christmas party of missionaries and people flying in from outer islands and working out the kinks of skyping families from cafe's with wifi and all that jazz! it's been and is a lil stressful but also a refining experience as i realize more fully conflict resolution skills and the importance of clear communication and life skills in general. hopefully changing and growing for the better!

some fun experiences this week: the family house night we showed up to 2 hours late... we had a district activity that ended in the afternoon and we were so focused on doing laundry and other p day stuff that we completely forgot the fhe until 1.5 hours after it was set to start... sped safely down south to the fhe and had a pretty good experience! learning the importance of writing things down and putting reminders! 

went on a exchange with the fanafo elders! i went with elder villianulva who was a zone leader in santo for 7.5 months so. it was great to be able to have one on one time with him and ask him some details and how to handle this or that. a great learning experience! 

another cool thing. we went back to rata on the request of the 2nd counselor of the branch(we stopped going to rata cuz everyone is always busy and no one wants to talk to us.. not that we don't love the people there but other people need us more) and i got to reunite and catch up with my first convert! se! he and his mom are still coming to church every week! and his older sister wants to be married and baptized! im so happy about those people because that family was like. 100% my (and elder atuake's) sickle that was thrust. and seeing them happy and strong in their testimony. just makes my day that much brighter.

taking the church to places it hasn't really been is so cool. like. being one of the first impressions that people have of the church. a big responsibility but also the reason why im here! to represent the savior jesus christ and invite all to come unto him! the only thing is we're kinda low on books of mormon at the moment and so we don't have enough to give to our investigators... :'( but the ferry is coming on tuesday. hopefully we'll have enough to fill our whole truck!!! 

that's all for now!

(i have... misplaced. my camera. there's like 3-4 places it could be and only 1 or 2 of those i can hope to recover it. so. pray that i'll find my cameraaaaa please i really want it back and i need your prayers pleaseeeeee thank youuuuuu)

elder hyatt vi