January 5, 2012

Well its been a really good week! life is amazing.
Everyone was home this week, we only had one day of not very many
lessons. I think we ended at 16 lessons this week and for our area is
a lot of lessons. all of them were really good lessons too. and
everything usually all works out well right before you get transferred
lol.. so we figured id be transferred. I have been in this area 6
months now. So we got transfers called in sat night and Elder Malani
got his Visa to PNG! no one was expecting that at all. so Im still in
Korovou and am stoked. getting Elder Seila who is another Fijian. My
prayers to learn this language are working , in that im getting help I
mean.. i still cant speak well.
on that topic I went on splits to Burewai and the lesson we had there
was a 26 year old girl who said I have poor fijian and Im fat... lol
that was nice .
here they have avocado's but they call them pears . and we got one
this week that was giant! like a small watermelon. crazy.. didnt taste
very good . im used to only getting little tasty spoon fulls of
avocado but this was a lot and less taste. lol random
all of our investigators are progressing well. besides the ones we
dropped anyway. we had more come to church then ever. samisoni is
staying strong with no smoking. he even paid tithing! holy cow. lol
doing that for awhile now. when we were there Bro Tabua shared about
how the BoM is spoken about in the Bible and we had 3 inv there and
they all kinda got big eyed and were really happy about that lesson.
so Ill be able to be here and baptise the people ive been working so
hard to get there. which isnt very normal to get to be here and do it
myself so im very blessed :) so many small things Heavenly Father
takes care of when we are working hard.
Serema and Lekima are building their house and after its done are
going to get married! so its close. they got the foundation done. (not
too much there all the foundations here are on sticks lol) so we are
going to help them work on it this week.
This mission has changed my life in so many ways that I know could not
have come any other way then serving a mission. I almost missed out on
it all. I know where I would be if I didnt come and its scary to think
about all the things I would have missed out on. If anyone knows a
young man thats not thinking about going on a mission you just tell
him about me and Ill have a little chat with him. lol I have direction
and focus in life. that alone is worth more then money. and so many
other personal things that I cant explain well are from coming on a
mission. The gospel is true. Its the number one reason of everything.
Ive learned to be true to myself and the Lord first and the rest will
fall into place. it takes some soul searching and asking yourself some
questions to know what that means to each of us.

Also something that hit me hard reading David O McKay talk is this
simple thing that we have all heard before but has a lot more meaning
then I ever knew. "Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner." He was talking
about the time when the people brought the lady caught in adultery to
him and tempted him asking what he said should be done. He never said
a word that condoned the sin or excused her from it. He had mercy and
said Go and Sin no more. I think we can all learn from his example
here when we react to the sins of people around us. directly or
indirectly concerning us. The love and ability to Love the person and
not label them with the Sin. They are sons and daughters of our
Heavenly Father with great potential. I can testify of that myself as
being one that appeared to have little potential from having made
great mistakes. And now look where I am from the power and love of the
Atonement. I would be nothing without it. So that is something I
learned about forgiveness. Having a hope and a desire for people to
reach their potential. How we treat others will greatly effect them on
that path. Use loving language. dont shout or label them with things
like, Lazy, stupid, dumb, ect. I did a lot of things that were lazy
stupid and dumb lol but its not who I am. When you label someone like
that they will believe you and thats what they will be. Just something
I liked to help me when Im a parent and also all those around me. to
watch what I say and do. Is it helping that person? if its not dont do
it. cause your only doing it for selfish reasons.

well thats my spill on that haha

hope all those pictures go through okay.

Love you all!

Loloma, Elder Estill

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