It's
been a surprisingly good week. It started off terrible as in Tuesday
night, as in I was fighting off tears the whole ride home on the
jeepney. The mission is definitely filled with frustrating and
depressing days, but for the most part, most days are so rewarding and
spiritually gratifying. The past couple of days we spent them exploring
new areas within our boundaries, which has been exciting. After walking
through the same neighborhoods for so long, you need some new scenery
and people to talk to.
But
this week has been full of surprises! It's funny because the people you
expect to be at church, don't come but then people you've almost given
up on, surprise you! You get to the point with some investigators where
it really all just comes down to their personal agency- they've learned
everything that you have to offer, and they know and have the testimony
of what they need to do, but just won't act on it. But yesterday, was so
great. L is the mother of our recent converts back in April. We
taught and baptized all four of her children, and even though she would
always listen, is so spiritual, and totally supported them, she would
never make the commitment herself. Her relatives, neighbors, kids, are
all recent converts. She would come to activities all the time at the
church on Saturday, but when Sunday would roll around, her children
would arrive without her. The past couple of weeks, we've been really
trying with her. Her hearts in the right place, but her youngest
daughter who's only 6 is sponsored at another church's school who's offering
her full-ride through college if she attends church there... so she's
been really struggling figuring things out. She knows what she needs to
do, so even though we still teach her, we've kind of left it up to her
regarding commitments, but she came to church for the first time
yesterday! We haven't followed up with her yet, but I hope she had a
good time. We have investigators come to church all the time, but with
her, it really was a sign of commitment, and hopefully she will continue
to take those steps which will eventually lead to baptism. But
yesterday was also great because two of the cutest, funniest Relief Society members came with us to work. Sister C and E came with
us like normal, B and T came with us for the first time.
They're older and were baptized at the beginning of last year, but they
are so funny and cute and they basically know everyone too.
A funny story this week. We went Saturday to watch the women's session
rebroadcast, but they told everyone 2 when it actually started at 1. so
everyone gets there for the last talk by President Uchtdorf, and then it ends and we wait
thinking maybe they could restart it, but then the Utah State and BYU
game comes on ahaha. so we watched five minutes while they tried to
figure out if they could rewind it or rebroadcast it....but they
couldn't. so we only saw about 20 minutes of the Relief Society
broadcast. I guess I'll just have to read the other talks :)
This
past week we had Sister Viatohi's follow-up training which was fun
because she got to see everyone from her batch. We were also supposed to
have our STL exchanges, but they got moved to some other week because
they had a meeting, but overall, the week ended good!
I
love you all! Hope you enjoyed conference! Sister Vai and I are so
excited for it and have been looking forward to it. We've been sharing
about prophets to every member and recent convert we visit, and every
morning I read a talk from previous sessions, but we still have five
more days to wait! Their messages and talks are always so inspiring and
encouraging and I can't wait!
You're always in my prayers!
Love,
Sister Fitzgerald
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