Gonna be a crazy week

This week was another great week! We had 3 baptisms with Whita, Ivy, and Ten!  Whita and Ivy had their wedding in the morning and then the baptism in the afternoon. We got to do the confirmations for Whita and Ivy.  Bishop does Ivy's then just looks at me to do it for Whita. So I did his confirmation which was the second one I have done. Thank goodness the microphone was broken haha. Our area is in a huge finding stage right now, but we have so many potential baptismal dates we just need to keep teaching them. We have been talking to everybody and have found so many new people. The work is really progressing and everything is going really good. 

We have a huge group of 25 missionaries ending on Friday and the new Mission President comes in on Monday, it is going to be a really interesting week for sure, pretty excited for some new changes.

Not a whole lot else to talk about this week. I am excited for some changes. The Church is true!

Elder Hale-Intake Malosi

 Whita and Ivy Marriage

 Ten's Baptism

 Whita and Ivy's Baptism

Risati's Family

Earthquake

This week was supperrr good. One of the biggest highlights was the earthquake that happened. I have always wanted to experience and earthquake and it finally happened. I woke up at about 2:20 in the morning on Saturday and the house was just shaking and the windows were super loud, lasted maybe 5 seconds and then it was done. I was hyped. 

We had Elder Hamilton of the Seventy come to visit us for stake conference, he gave a super good talk! He talked a lot about missionary work, prayer, and sacrifice, it was just a super cool experience. 

Manamea got baptized!! It was my first time doing a baptism in an outdoor font which was pretty cool. Last Saturday night I got a call from Faaliliu, who is the lady we met on the road and was absolutely golden. She said that her family forbid her from getting baptized. She kept going on and on about how much she loves the church and the Book of Mormon but can't come to church and get baptized. I was sooooo sad. For reals one of the saddest things on this mission. She said we can still try and meet at this members house in secret haha. We are waiting for her husband to get home from American Samoa and then they will probably move to a different village so she and her kids can get baptized. It is cool she is willing to make that sacrifice, but we will see what continues to happen in the future.

We have 3 baptisms this week with Whita and Ivi, and Ten. Whita and Ivi are going to get married on Saturday morning then baptized after. It has been so cool to see these investigators progress and feel the spirit. It is such a privilege to see the change these people make in their lives.

Last cool thing we did this week was a super cool service project for a lady in our ward. It was about half of our zone and President Hannemann and his wife. We went over to this families house where the dad is super sick and we just cleaned up the house so much. For reals, it took all of us over 5 hours it was so much stuff we took out. Then we drove all of it to the landfill. I never want to go back to a landfill in my life, it almost ruined Samoa for me. They dont really bury anything they just leave it all out, I have seriously never smelt anything worse in my life. HORRIBLE. It was a super good service project though and president bought us all food after which is always great.

The work moves forward!

Elder Roberts

SKOL VIKINGS

Squad

Sivelia 

Manamea and her Husband, Afa 

Baptism in outdoor font 

Massive FHE 

Painting 

Service Project

I HATE CASH POWER

This week was another money week here in Samoa. Other than the fact that Samoa doesn't do unlimited power. So how the power works here is you pay for a certain amount and when it is up there is no power. So we have had a big problem with the people we live with and the mission office and who pays the power. Basically nobody has been paying for it so twice this week we get home to no power so we just sit in our house in pitch black and 85 degrees getting wrecked by mosquitoes because we don't have a fan. It was horrible. Eventually the office got us some. I still don't know if they got it figured out for the long term though. Anyways...

Samantha and Sivelia both got baptized last week! Sivelia is this 11 year old girl that literally doesn't stop smiling she is the funniest. Whita and Ivi will be getting baptized next week, we can't do this week because it is stake conference in that stake. A girl named Manamea is getting baptized this Saturday is our new ward we picked up. She is getting married right before her baptism as well. Most of our investigators need to be married.

We had a miracle this week! Last Thursday we were walking on a dirt path to an appointment and a woman carrying groceries was a good couple hundred feet in front of us but then she stopped to rest, we caught up to her and carried her groceries for her and walked to her house. Basically the Lord prepared her for us. We did a lesson with her on Saturday and she just talked about how Mormons are so blessed and she wants those blessings and she loves the church. Such a testimony builder that the Lord is always preparing people. She has a baptismal date for the 30th, and she has like 3 kids not baptized also. Her husband is an extremely weak member that hasn't been to church in over 20 years. I am so excited for her.

The area continues to progress, the Lords work is so amazing. The church is true, I hope everyone has a great week!

Vaisal-super good coconut drink

Baptism of Samantha and Sivelia 

 My comp broke his chair and fell at an FHE hahahaha

Faaliliu at Visitors Center

9 Months??

First of all, sorry I have like no time at all to email today. This week was super successful though. Jim got baptized!!!! It has been amazing to see the progress he has made, but I am super happy for him. Whita and Ivi ended up not getting married yet but probably will next week, we are baptizing two of Ivi's sisters this Saturday though, Samantha and Silivia. Whita and Ivi will most likely be next week.

Our Lotopa ward has been giving us so much support it has been amazing, and our bishop is awesome. He will literally do anything for us. We have had heck of FHE's this past week, and we keep meeting new people. The work is super good and Samoa is awesome.

The church is true, Jesus is the Savior.

Elder Roberts

Jim's Bapitsm