Neat Experience

This week was slow..... my comp didn’t want to do anything but stay at home and sleep, except for on P day last week... He didn’t want to stay in our area which I was annoyed with and we got caught by President. We interviewed on Wednesday and talked about how I can’t control my comp, and Pres knew because this is how this guy has been his whole mission. President said if he didn’t change by Friday, to let him know. It seemed to have only gotten worse so when President asked on Friday about how things were I just told him the truth. Saturday the AP's picked him up and took him home.... So I got a new comp and he is getting sent home sometime this week too..... So Transfers were Last night and I get another new companion. He is from this area and I have known him since I was in Vava'u. He is a good missionary. His name is Elder Manu. So now it’s Elder Mani and Elder Manu haha. It’s kind of confusing when people call out to one of us...... but I am happy to finally not have to be with the other guy. That was crazy and so depressing..............but the first day I actually got in and visited members was once I got this new companion, just on saturday...... So still not too aquainted with the members but getting there! It will be good with this new companion because this is his ward so he can help me get to know the members fast.

We taught our first lesson here yesterday, which was really spiritual. I have never felt the spirit guide my thoughts so much. Even though my language wasn’t 100%, I still felt the spirit super strong. The lady we taught has already been taught all the lessons, so we didn’t really know where to go with the discussion. So we just invited here to baptism again and she shared a lot with us. Since my old companion had been here, they stopped teaching her for some reason. She said since then, she stopped keeping the commitments, she was feeling the adversary so strong and couldn’t resist it. She doesn’t feel she can be baptized, because even though she knows it’s all true and what she needs, she doesn’t like how when her life gets better, Satan works that much harder to bring her down. So when she was done sharing, I just had a thought pop into my head.... I shared a little story about a room with no light visible at all, completely dark. If someone shines even the littlest light, the darkness cannot consume the light. If we focus on the light, we gain the urge to find the source and start moving towards the light. When we recognize and try to find that source, the light will begin to get bigger and bigger until eventually it consumes the once dark filled room. I shared how that light is the light of Christ in each and every one of us and that even though we live in this dark world, His light will always shine. The way we get closer to that source isn’t by doing or not doing big things, but just the simples, reading scriptures, praying, simple things will increase the light within us. She than shared to us that she felt the urge that she needed to leave her husband, who didn’t want to come to the appointment, on the other side of the island and come by herself and talk with us. My companion committed her at the end to again stop drinking and smoking then in closing I just asked her if we could do a little change to that commitment. I asked her to this week just focus on the light, and not on the darkness and sorrows she feels. I told her just to focus on the good, and to do the simple stuff, to pray for help and to read the scriptures to increase the light within her because when that happens, the urges to smoke or drink will disappear. She liked that idea better so we are teaching her again on Wednesday to talk about the commitment and everything. She just felt like she has no help, no one to guide her so I told her that I am staying here until July, and I will not give up on her and her husband. I will visit them all the time and just make sure she is doing ok. I don’t know, it was just a way spiritual experience and I am excited to see what happens next with her.

So that’s the story for the week! It’s starting to get better haha hopefully continues like this! These wards are awesome, focus a lot on missionary work, mostly because our area is 95% LDS haha. I am loving it! Write again next week :)

Elder Huntsman

Man is it hot here............