What a week!
Monday was super fun! We went shopping at this HUGE mall in our area. Unfortunately everything Was SUPER expensive. Like I'm not even kidding. 95.00 for a t-shirt. A T-SHIRT! Wow... That evening we had dinner with Bishop Rodgers and Man was it fun. Good food, good conversation and An amazing Plumeria Garden in the back yard. Oh, Grandma, I don't know if you heard from my letter but We had dinner with Manase Tonga's wife. Good 'ol #11 from BYU is Bishop Rodger's son-in-law. It was a grand evening.
Tuesday, Was so awesome! One of the members just got back from her trip to Hawaii and We had asked her (semi jokingly) to bring us back something Hawaiian and SHE DID! yay! Hawaiian Host Chocolates and Lays for both of us. Awww so nice. So that was fun. We taught a bunch of people But that was the highlight.
Wed. we were able to teach Joseph Leocadio's son! Wooo hoo! I hope that we can help that family to come closer to Christ. It's always fun teaching Joseph but the lessons go a bit long, 'cause he likes to talk and we like to listen. Ha ha. Oh well.
Thursday we had a great district meeting. We talked about Elder Packer's talk "A candle to the Lord" and discussed how we can apply what we learned in it in our lives. It was a lot about receiving personal revelation and how the spirit speaks to us. Elder Packer is soo good. He points out in the talk that the scriptures try to put a word to describe how the spirit communicates with us and it calls it a voice, but that it is more of a voice one feels than one hears, and he sites 1 Nephi 17:45 "ye have seen and angel, and he spake unto you; yea, ye have heard his voice from time to time; and he hath spoken unto you in a still small voice, but you were past feeling, that ye could not feel his words..."So good! Anyways we took Joseph out with us to meet with a recent convert who hasn't been coming to church lately. It went really well and it was great. I think they hit it off really well.
Friday was weekly planning. And then we met with this one kid and helped him to realize that prayer isn't scary and that it's important to pray. It's like talking to our Dad (Because he is our heavenly father after all). It went really well. His prayer at the end of the lesson was so sweet, "Heavenly father I thank you for these missionaries. i have fun with them And I'll do what they ask me to. I'll pray every day. and I hope we can get together again soon. In the name of Jesus Christ amen." Then we had dinner with a polly family. man I love Supo Moa - Chicken soup. the kids were super fun and bouncy. ha ha. Like they wouldn't stop jumping and making me hold their hands and pull them up higher. It was a great work out but it was tiring. Then we had a great lesson with this one girl who was So great! I'm excited to keep working with her.
Saturday we had a couple lessons. We had a great one with Joseph. He took us to get Little Ceasar's and then we had our meeting in a park and later we played guitar and chatted. TOO FUN! Anyways Friday night we got a referral from the Spanish Elders and we went to the house and after we got past Tootsie the Pit bull we had a great lesson and All four of the people in the family were eager to learn and willing to prepair for baptism! Yay!
Sunday we had stake conference which was AMAZING! The stake presidency (Leaders over several congregations) was reorganized and the rest of the meeting was their testimonies and MAN the spirit was strong. It was alot about the origin of testimonies and about needing the lord's help to fill our callings ,whatever they may be. Whether leaders, teachers, home teachers, parents, whatever it may be, we all have callings. It was funny cause one of the counselors in the old presidency is now the new president and he said, "I know that this must be inspired. look at me. I have glasses, hearing aids, and braces. no one but the lord would call a man to be stake president who is blind deaf and dumb." ha ha ha. GREAT stuff. We met with one of our investigators and hopefully his mom will give him permission to be baptized. It looks promising. So We're excited!
And that was that.
Whew!
Well, thank you for being such amazing friends and family. You are the best! Thanks for your letters and emails and love.
I love you all so much!
I hope you are well and that things are going good.
Catch you later!
-Elder Barker
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