WEll this whole thing was an unexpected transfer because transferrs are actually this week so I was pretty shocked along with everyone else but now I'm living on matautu street which is awesome but super super weird! Like I said it was a whole other culture shock coming here because its just like being in a city back in america with a busy main street alley ways, huge buildings and all kinds of cool stores too but I'll tell ya what there was one paved road and just jungle in lalovi...
I love
it though! Its a blast over here. WE J-walk on the regualr, meet heaps
of people all in one day, still don't use street names because everyone
just memorizes buidlings and where they live based off of land marks.
Its all just so new! THe coolest part is that I;ve seen so many people
from Tuanai and lalovi since I';ve gotten here because this is the place
where everyone comes to do their shopping each weekend and we're out
and a bout preaching the gospel so they pul over and make my day all the
time! ITs sweet!
The weirdest part of this weekend since
I've gotten here thoguh was this guy named norman that we met as we were
looking to invite his mom back to church because she hasn't been coing
very much... WE asked if we could help him with anyone after we woke him
up from his sleeping and then he invited us in and we started having
the weirdest conversation. It basically went exactly like Alma Chapter
30... nearly word for word in some cases. WE sat down and he just
started chatting as if he didn't hear our offer for help from before so
then I asked a gain and he paused grinned and asked if there is a God. I
of course got pumped to answer with a yes and he just got upset and
argued that I don't know because I haven't seen him before... It was
weird mom! This guy lives in Samoa and doesn't beleive in a God..... I
never thought in a million years that I would meet someone lke Norman on
my mission!!! I was blown away! We kept discussing it more and more but
his answers were always short and denying the witnesses I was giving
him. A few times he laughed, other tiomes he yelled... Then He asked us
to share something about God So I just opened right on up to Alma 30 and
read him word for word starting from verse 37 who he is. It was nuts!
WE both felt the spirit up until his mom who were looking for came in
and started to argue wiht him... We dippd out pretty shortly after that
because we had a baptism to attend. It was the strangest part of my
mission by far! I MET KORIHOR...
So this area has so much in
store for me. WE speak a lot of english because theres heaps of english
speaking people especially in the ward... Its all just so different and
new I'm not sure what to do half the time but its a blast.
I ditched elder Sewell though and don't know if He has a new comapnion
yet or not he was just waiting with the elders in Samatau last I heard..
I miss him. BUt I'm with Elder Vest from Logan utah who just got here 6
weeks ago so you guessed it I'm training again and I'm loving it again!
He's a stud! He can speak samoan really well already which is a blast.
Yes I'm still DL over here and this district needs a little bit of help
but I'm excited to do it. We're covering 2 wards and they're awesome!
fia palagi too. Elder Redd is training in Tutuila with someone from
Elder Vest's intake, Afuvai is working at an airport i guess, the intake
is all doing great, TUimauga is an AP, Fifita is a ZL in tutuila trying
not to get fat from all the american food, Luatua was a sister training
leader but now I think shes training in SAvaii, Kimball last heard was
training, packard is working on coming back out, and Mataitusi I guess
is backside Upolu somewhere just preaching it up. so yeah that's us. I
had a great week and hope to go set up heaps of baptismal dates this
week and then end it with a sweet conference weekend. I love you heaps
and will see you soon! :)
Elder Jones
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