Serving the Lord in Samoa: Gang Wars

The highlight of this week was definitely the "gang wars". We were standing outside the mission office/temple talking to our recent convert Jack who works security when all these 25 year old guys starting fighting each other in the street. They were all wearing red bandanas and it was kind of fun to watch. Except there are like no such things as guns here so they were just throwing rocks hahaha. I was dying it was pretty funny. We came back like 2 hours later and it was still going on and the police finally got there, but the only thing that police have are sticks, so just imagine a bunch of guys throwing rocks at each other and a bunch of police with sticks trying to break it up. It was pretty funny. The next day the high chief of the village held a council and banned about 20 guys from the village, not at all what they want.

Anna-La got baptized! Super awesome baptism, I can't believe how prepared she was, faafetai i le bishop for the amazing referral as well. We have no baptisms this week, since it is General Conference weekend here (We watch it a week late), but we have at least one next week with Apolo. We got a referral for these guys from Fiji and Papua New Guinea and Vanuwatu that live together, we took two of them to the visitors center. They are sooo prepared! We were talking about the temple and he asked "How can I be worthy to enter the temple". Too easy. We were also able to do a little split with President and his Wife and did a really awesome FHE, spirit was strong. Everything is going amazing here. I am soooo grateful for the opportunity I have to be a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!

Also, President got us a brand new white 12 seater, it has a gold stripe down the sides. It had the new car smell and only 7 kilometers when we got it. We were HYPED.