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Exchanges in Dannevirke

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Malo e lelei everybody! I hope you are all doing good. I know you are probably impressed that I am writing 2 weeks in a row, I am proud of myself as well. My week was not too bad. We had exchanges this week in Dannevirke with the Elders up there. It was a good exchange and it's always good to be on exchanges. Nothing crazy really happened though. My comp and I have been finding it a little harder to be motivated lately. Being in the same area has proven difficult to find new people to work with. We had a good weekly planning last week and it seemed like a switch was flipped with me and my comp. So I have high hopes that this week is going to be much different. I realized that I need to have more faith in the work. That is really what has been lacking lately. Anyways, that'll be it for the week. Sorry for the lack of entertainment, hoping things pick up. One thing I learned this week from my studies is that faith is a principle of action and power. We must act on our faith in or...

Ngarau Hina's baptism

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Manuia le aso everybody! So sorry that this is a little bit late. I suck at writing these emails every week, sorry Mom. We had transfers to deal with this last week. It was busy and hectic, but it was good. I'm hoping that that is the last time I will be helping out with those. Transfer weeks are exhausting. Other than that, the work is still going pretty slowly. We have one friend that is progressing though. His name is Kyle, he has been reading the Book of Mormon every single day. But his only hold up is that he goes to his own church, and doesn't think it’s right to join another one. It has been really cool to teach him though because over time we have been able to see the Book of Mormon changing him. We taught him last night and it was so obvious that the Book of Mormon was helping him draw closer to Jesus Christ. So, please pray for Kyle everybody. I was able to attend a girls baptism that I had found and taught about 6 months ago. It was super cool because we had put her ...

'Ofa pe teke ma'u ha 'aho Sapate Fa'e lelei

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Malo e lelei everybody! I hope that you have all had a wonderful week. I hope that each of you wished your mothers a happy mothers day. If you haven't, make sure to go do that now. I would also like to apologize for being terrible at writing emails every week, especially to my mother. It's been a busy few weeks, but they have been awesome. We got to go to the temple again last week. So that meant packing up and driving a van 7 hours up to Hamilton with a bunch of other missionaries. It was super fun, I love a good road trip. I'm so blessed to have gone on a couple temple trips while I've been serving here. It is not to easy to get up there, and it definitely isn't cheap. Each time I go I am reminded of God's Plan of Salvation. One of the things that really stood out to me this time is that when we sacrifice things in our life, it is a similitude to the Savior's sacrifice. Obviously, we can never compare our sacrifices to His ultimate sacrifice, but sacrifice...