Monday, August 20, 2013
Famlee!
Well, you are all in
one of my favorite places in the world right now and won't get this letter for
a little while, but I’m gunna write it anyways!
Things here are good.
We just had a zone conference yesterday (which is why I am writing this letter
on Tuesday) and I am really excited to apply the things we learned. Things with
our branch have been really tough. Some of the members have a big problem with
contention, and to make things worse the president was giving a little bit of
faca over the pulpit this last Sunday to specific people, so there were some
offended people needless to say. Anyways, so there were some arguments, not
huge ones, but arguments nonetheless going on Sunday. So our branch is
struggling, and we as the missionaries in the ward have really been thinking
hard and sweating a lot over the branch. We didn't know what to do.
However, we had
interviews with the President, so in my interview I asked him how as one
missionary I could help the branch become a branch of Zion, and I got some
direction that really eased my stress and made my pathway clear. He said a lot,
but one line he said in particular sums it up. He said: "Don't split your
time. Baptize." He told me to find and baptize people that didn't care if
there was hypocrisy in the branch, didn't care how lousy church was, but just
wanted the blessings of exaltation. I was so happy to hear this. So, we are not
going to worry about the members too much, we are just going to do our job as
missionaries and baptize. Really I already thought that this was how it should
be, but President definitely confirmed it.
The language is good.
Not great, but definitely better every day. I can understand people who talk
clearly like they do on the continent; unfortunately those people are few on
the islands... People here talk slurred and only say about half the sounds, so
all of the words blend together and it is still really hard to understand. It
is really hard sometimes, but it is exciting to see my growth in the language.
I can read the scriptures just fine, write and speak well; I just need to work
on understanding.
Things with Fernando
are hard right now, but we are fasting with him on Saturday and Sunday this
week, and I know that will help. We weren't able to talk to him this last week
very much, but we will get things done.
Anyways, hope you all
are having a great time at the lake; you probably are actually home now if you
are reading this, so I hope you all had an amazing time. I love you all so
much, and miss you all a lot!
Love you all!
Elder Lee
Mom,
as far as the camera goes, I will get it either way. I doubt I will leave after
this transfer so you could send it to my house address. However, if you send it
to the mission office, I will get it eventually as well because people need to
make a trip to the continent for some things and they could bring it back to
me. idk.
Also, idk if I have
told you this, but I only live out of one suitcase here, because you can only
bring one suitcase to the islands, and apparently the place in the church and
mission office where they keep suitcases got robbed. A ton of stuff was stolen
out of the suitcases, so I may be missing things. idk. I had basketball shoes
in there, a suit, my nice jersey, pants, shirts, and other stuff. I don’t
remember everything. So I don’t know if anything of mine got stolen buts odds
are they did. Sister Fluckiger said missing things would be replaced, but I
have no idea how that is going to work. It is a mess, but I can’t do anything
about it right now.
Anyways, I love, you,
have a great week!
Alright,
well, I think it would just be better to send the package here to the island.
Are you going to send the tie with it? I saw all the ties in the wedding pics,
they looked good! You did a great job with that, you definitely deserve this
vacation! Anyways, I love you, and will talk to you later!
I love Tony's pictures. It is such a beautiful place. This has been added to my bucket list.
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