Maika'i no au, mahalo nui!
We had our normal visits with our normal investigators and members, all good.
We went on exchanges with the zone leaders on Friday, Elder Tavake gave me some addresses to people we haven't been able to meet yet, so I took Elder Worden to those people. Met a lot of awesome, new people! I met Urmila two weeks ago, but she was too busy at the time to sit down with us, so we scheduled a return appointment. She was free when Elder Worden and I stopped by, so we had a nice lesson with her. She had already taken all the lessons, been to church the required amount of times, reads the Book of Mormon, and has been extended multiple baptismal dates. Her most recent was extended in early January. She is a recent widow, and given that that was the first holiday season she spent without her husband, she kind of broke away for a bit and shut down, but she seems fine now. We shared the message of family sealings, and she seemed to appreciate it. We also gave her Mosiah 2 as a reading assignment, which explains how she can find joy and happiness in her life at this critical time. Afterwards, we met with several other investigators and less-active members who referred us to their non-member families. We're looking at a great next few weeks of following up with those people!
Yesterday was great, despite none of our investigators showing up to church. Elder Tavake and I were asked to teach Sunday school, but nobody knew what the lesson was so we decided to teach something that even I didn't know enough about: the Millenium. We went through the plan of salvation and focused particularly on the time between our ressurection and final judgement. It reminded me of the fact that Satan is working extra hard now to take as many people down with him as possible before he's bound for a thousand years. I also learned that the Millenium will be the final opportunity for missionary work to take place, and that by the end of those thousand years/ by the time we reach our final judgement, there will not be a soul in existance that will be able to say they never had the opportunity to accept the gospel because it will have been extended to everyone. I can't wait for that time of peace, joy, and work with my family and those I love.
We had a great district meeting afterwards. A guy from Rabi came to our branch yesterday and recognized my name (of course). However, Brother Teke shared with me how he served around Herbert here in the mission. Herb, Brother Tekenimatang sends his loloma.
Elder Tavake is excellent, he's doing a great job at keeping me in check by making sure I write in my journal regularly and get out of bed as soon as I roll back over after my morning prayer. He's a great companion and missionary, I feel blessed to have him.
I'm glad everyone is doing really well, glad to see Lehia's putting in work in the water haha.
This last week was a very interesting one!
We had our normal visits with our normal investigators and members, all good.
Our flat has been horrific because of all the missionaries that stayed over the last few weeks and the landlord has been getting on our case daily, so we dedicated a full day to cleaning the flat from top to bottom. Thursday, we stayed home all day and cleaned. We cleaned from 10am to 7:30pm straight, and it's SO clean and organized now. SUCH an improvement. It was so pleasing to walk around the clean house without feeling rice under my feet in the kitchen or slime in the shower. The zone leaders came over the next morning and are determined to help us keep it clean when we have 22 elders over next week haha.
We went on exchanges with the zone leaders on Friday, Elder Tavake gave me some addresses to people we haven't been able to meet yet, so I took Elder Worden to those people. Met a lot of awesome, new people! I met Urmila two weeks ago, but she was too busy at the time to sit down with us, so we scheduled a return appointment. She was free when Elder Worden and I stopped by, so we had a nice lesson with her. She had already taken all the lessons, been to church the required amount of times, reads the Book of Mormon, and has been extended multiple baptismal dates. Her most recent was extended in early January. She is a recent widow, and given that that was the first holiday season she spent without her husband, she kind of broke away for a bit and shut down, but she seems fine now. We shared the message of family sealings, and she seemed to appreciate it. We also gave her Mosiah 2 as a reading assignment, which explains how she can find joy and happiness in her life at this critical time. Afterwards, we met with several other investigators and less-active members who referred us to their non-member families. We're looking at a great next few weeks of following up with those people!
We switched back Saturday morning and Elder Tavake had a full day of finding. We had no success, nobody really wanted to hear what we had to see, but it's okay. There are other ponds that need fishing from.
Yesterday was great, despite none of our investigators showing up to church. Elder Tavake and I were asked to teach Sunday school, but nobody knew what the lesson was so we decided to teach something that even I didn't know enough about: the Millenium. We went through the plan of salvation and focused particularly on the time between our ressurection and final judgement. It reminded me of the fact that Satan is working extra hard now to take as many people down with him as possible before he's bound for a thousand years. I also learned that the Millenium will be the final opportunity for missionary work to take place, and that by the end of those thousand years/ by the time we reach our final judgement, there will not be a soul in existance that will be able to say they never had the opportunity to accept the gospel because it will have been extended to everyone. I can't wait for that time of peace, joy, and work with my family and those I love.
We had a great district meeting afterwards. A guy from Rabi came to our branch yesterday and recognized my name (of course). However, Brother Teke shared with me how he served around Herbert here in the mission. Herb, Brother Tekenimatang sends his loloma.
Elder Tavake is excellent, he's doing a great job at keeping me in check by making sure I write in my journal regularly and get out of bed as soon as I roll back over after my morning prayer. He's a great companion and missionary, I feel blessed to have him.
Anyways, honestly not much an an eventful week but a great one! We're looking at heaps of good work over the next coming weeks. I'm SO grateful for the coutnless blessings I'm seeing right now as I race for the finish line.
I'm glad everyone is doing really well, glad to see Lehia's putting in work in the water haha.
I couldn't help but crack up at your story about Brother Matthews, but that's so cool that you got to meet someone from (a family from) your mission!
Alright I have a few letters I have to respond to, so I'll be off.
I love you guys so much, have an incredible week!
I love you guys so much, have an incredible week!
Khyaal rakna,
Elder Ishibashi
Elder Ishibashi
-Big hill of the (hot, hot, hot) day
-Unfortunately: It's hard to stay awake during the 20 minute Fijian talks because I don't understand 99% of what's going on.
Forunately: I have a pillow built into my neck
("six months to sexy" is out the window. At this point it's more like "four months to fine")
-Elder Tavake got a "district package" a few days ago
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