Family this week was Incredible!!! we had 3 baptisms this weekend This was the name i had to say when i baptized one of them Jessica Levaogogo Masinamua Faasavalu Tanuvasa, those crazy islanders... i guess my name is just as long though it was awesome to hear about the conversion of them and their mom. They were a part member family..
the mom sister gogokau, the one who is getting me fat didnt believe in the church until a month ago she had been a member for about a 10 years but had never prayed about it. missionaries had been trying to baptize her kids for about 5 years but she didnt want them baptized. About a month ago we set a goal for eight people baptized and a miracle...elder comfort and i fasted for 2 days just to see what would happen...that sunday sister gogokau came up to us and said i want you to baptize my kids hahaha! MIRACLES! the younger ones hated church but their cuzzin came from new zealand came to australia and taught them the gospel and got them interested.
Heavenly Father was just waiting for the right timing...that is what i have been able to understand the last couple of months. timing that is what it is and patience on our part to wait for the lords promises to be fullfilled. Sister Gogokau bore her testimony before the baptism and she said that god answered her and she knows that our church is true and said "I will never not be straight path" in broken english. she brought the house down with the spirit it was awesome.
Next story i learned a very valuable lesson this week...I have been blessed throughout my whole life and i wasnt really grateful for it....i went on an exchange with an elder on an exchange...elder andrew from vaanawatu, an island in the pacific he grew up with nothing...he showed me his pictures from back home he was only wearing ripped munted shirts worn shorts. he was a convert the only one of his family and he served his mission and his family doesnt even write him and he hadnt called them for the past year. he speaks like they do in jamacia, and he was the humblest person i have ever met in my entire life. i spent all night talking to him and he spoke his broken english to me and i felt like crap because i had been blessed with everything i ever wanted and his family struggles for food back home he kept playing my guitar and he said ohhh dis iz de nicest guitar... I said it is your bro... He looked at me and shouted his little island yell! take it man take it. it never felt so good to give someone something so small. Seek not after riches or the vain things of things of this world for behold ye cannot carry them with you. i wont be able to take that guitar back but that memory will last for eternity.
That next morning we had the slowest morning and i remember praying "heavenly father im not one to complain but it has been a couple weeks now and we havent even taught a lesson..yah trent those number of lessons you taught make me sick! anyways i asked i said please give me and elder andrew a miracle... Stand back and watch the salvation of the lord is what i heard from the voice behind my ears.
We made a random visit to funaki a former investigator part member that was at a stand still, we went in and read Alma 34 Funaki said under his breath the time is now.. Then he said i always remember my grandpa saying this is the time to prepare to meet got. Elder stoddard elder andrew the time is now. a little more talk, and the spirit kept saying ask him to be baptized, i pushed it away about 4 times because everytime we bring it up funaki goes cold. 5th time ASK HIM TO BE BAPTIZED! okay okay Funaki do you want to be baptized??? he said, God has just answered my prayer, i prayed you would ask me that question i have been praying about it for the last few weeks. we hadnt seen him for 2 months. he said i want to be baptized on the 28th or january!!!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! the spirt has cracked this nut he had been learning the gospel for about a year and now it is happening. me and elder andrew were going nuts in the car i was yelling in english and he was yelling in some language that sounds like something on star wars it was classic. I couldnt be happier things couldnt be better the lord is blessing this area the western suburbs of sydney. i dont even care how many more doors i knockthat
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