Serving the Lord in Samoa: Here Comes the Rain

Well these last two weeks have been extremely eventful. Last Friday night we were visiting Penny (Someone we baptized in November), and she asked if we heard about the Cyclone that was coming that night. Of course, being missionaries we didn't hear about anything and we didn't really think much of it until the winds really picked up. Then we were walking home and walked by the shop and it was PACKED. Like the whole village was at that store. We figured we would join the hype so we went and bought a lot of food. Probably a good thing because we ended up having to be inside for the next two days so at least we had food.

Ya Friday night was crazy. Soooo windy and lots of rain it was hard to sleep. So in Samoa they don't have windows like America. I don't want to explain it but basically I would wake up every 5 minutes to a huge gust of wind spraying water on me. So ya fun night. We woke up Saturday morning and the power was out and the water wasn't running. Yay. Tons of trees had blown over and everything was just a mess. We got a call from Zone Leaders saying it was coming back and we weren't allowed to go out today. So Saturday was pretty boring. I was waiting and waiting for the storm to come back and it never did. We went to church on Sunday which ended up being like no one there and it was only an hour. Then stayed home the rest of that day also. Overall, it was pretty hype. I thought it was super fun. I feel really bad for some people who had all their trees fall down and roofs come off, etc. Especially when their fruit trees are their source of food, extremely sad to see. We have been extremely busy doing lessons with our investigators but have been trying to find opportunities to serve and help the clean up. In the culture it looks bad if a missionary is helping you with your chores so basically a lot of people wont let us help and its soooooo frustrating. So ya the storm was fun. Sounds like Tonga got hit pretty hard so praying for them as well.

As with the investigators, Noa and Suega both got baptized two weeks ago! We were supposed to have one baptism last week but all baptisms were cancelled in the mission because of the storm. We have two this week with Tu'i and Misiluki. I am really excited for both of them. Tu'i needed to come to church this last Sunday to get baptized. She missed church, so we took her to the English ward later in the day. This island has one English ward and it's at our chapel. It was so weird hearing "Good morning Brothers and Sisters" and everybody was talking to me in English and there were other white people. It was just kind of weird. It was cool though. Some white guy came up to me and we talked and apparently he is in a band called "Culture Crew". They are doing some Humanitarian Work here for the week though I guess. He is from Orange Country, Cali.

OH MY GOSH we had the best Family Home Evening with a guy named Moore. He is the dad of Alex who was supposed to get baptized. Our first time meeting him he was smoking and drinking and giving us all this trash talk and stuff. We brought him to the office to do a FHE together with President. President suggested it so shout out to him he is a beast. Then President had to take a last second trip to a different island. So we just had one of the office elders with us. We got Bishop and his wife to come and talk about Family and how they can be together forever and it was so powerful. Everyone started crying and he accepted baptism for March 3rd, when he will get baptized together with his son. So excited for all of them. The rest of our investigators are all good. Joanna's mom is having a struggle getting married so I don't think her baptism is going to happen soon. Sad.

Other fun things that happened these last two weeks: I got bit by a dog while getting kicked off this Methodist land, we went to town last P-day and I spent 50 bucks at McDonalds, went with Bishop dropping off rice, water and sugar for people.

Elder Roberts