We found a little patch of "real Samoa" so we decided to take a picture.
Taro is what's growing in the back round...yum!
Fafagas were pretty good this week!
This week was really good and we set two baptismal dates for
October. One woman is Philippino and she was baptized in the Philippines but moved to
Tutuila and they lost her records. There are many
Philippinos and Asians here in American Samoa. They run a lot of the small businesses and stores.
The other woman is M. We got to their house and were
talking for a bit and then President Hannemann calls and says he wants to come
to the lesson with us. So I was kinda freaking out but he couldn't have called
at a better time becasue she is our best investigator. So it was Me, Elder
Fano, President, the APs and then M and H. We taught lesson 3, "The Gospel
of Jesus Christ". We talked about faith, repentance, and baptism. It was a
really good lesson and the spirit was super strong. We invited M to be
baptized October 22nd and she accepted and we also invited H to do the
baptism. He is a great guy and we hope he decides he would like to do that. He was at church on Sunday with his mom who is really
active which was great.
On Friday we had a meeting with president and the APs as a
district. President really hammered into us that we need to have faith in this
work. If we don't have faith we can't really achieve anything but if we have
faith we can do anything. That kinda got me thinking about Christ's life. I
really believe that if we can gain as much faith and confidence in Heavenly
Father as Christ did, I truly believe we can do anything he did except for the
Atonement. I know we can heal as He did and teach with the same power He did if
we have the faith.
I also made some old Samoa connections this week finally! One of our
fafagas that feeds us is from Faleasi'u (my first area) and my first baptism was
her sister-in-law so that was cool and we talked a lot about Faleasi'u. Then on Sunday, the Elder's Quorum President came up to me
and said that he talked to his brother who is a counselor to the bishop in one
of the wards in my last area. So it was fun to talk to him about some things familiar to both of us. He's a really cool
guy.
All in all, another solid week...
Don't get mad mom, but I kosi'ed my hair. President said it looks sharp so we decided to do it.
( I wasn't exactly sure what that meant because it wasn't really clear from this photo, but in Justin's words..."It's where the part of my hair is and then we shave the part line so there is no hair there". A Samoan thing I guess, and I'm actually a fan, so it's all good! :) )
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