Serving the Lord in Samoa: Earthquake

Sorry we didn't have internet connection last week but this is my update for two weeks. Last Saturday night my companion wakes me up at like 11:30 telling me we need to go, and I was pretty mad honestly I wanted to sleep. I went back to bed then he woke me up again saying we legit needed to leave right now. I was like what the heck is going on. Right as I walked outside our house a mission van pulls up. It's one of those 12 person vans but there were like 20 missionaries packed inside. I still had no idea what was going on. Then everyone in the van was talking about how it was a pretty big earthquake and stuff. Apparently I slept through a 6.8 earthquake. I was so mad, I have always wanted to feel an earthquake. President wanted to evacuate all the missionaries near the coast because of the threat of a tsunami. So we went to a chapel more inland and stayed there till 6 am and then I had 7:30 church. That Sunday was a grind I was soo tired.

When we got home from church our house smelled super bad, and it had been smelling bad for the past 2 weeks. Elder Pu'efua and I always joked there was a dead rat, then we found a dead rat under my bed. The only thing left was the bones and some fur. It was pretty gross and smelled horrible but once we got rid of that it was all good.

Last week I ate a ton of fish at someone's house and got super sick from it. The next day was pretty bad. I was at someones house and they gave me some medicine to drink so I did. I asked if I could look at the bottle after I drank it. It ended up being a laxative. I just looked at my companion and told him this is not at all what I want. So ya I felt a lot better the next day though.

We have a baptism this week with Penny. It has been such an honor to teach her. She has been meeting with missionaries for two years and she is finally getting baptized this Saturday. We got to teach their family how to do family home evening and that was really special. I taught the lesson in Samoan so hopefully they understood what was going on. She has a daughter on a mission that she is keeping her baptism a secret from her till it happens, she will be so excited. We also are teaching a guy named Ace. He is 21 and super cool. I have never seen someone so excited about the gospel. He is getting baptized next Saturday. We taught him about the Book of Mormon and the next day we go to check on him and he was asleep with the Book of Mormon open to second Nephi. We were super excited.

Elder Roberts