All is well in the Otai Kingdom. It was an interesting week
where we tried to never stopped going, but when we caught a moment, there was
Otai awaiting us. Haha. I'm so grateful that members in my past areas have let
me spend time in the kitchen with them so when I'm lacking certain things, I know
how to overload my system. Otai is pretty much 4 servings of fruit in one
beautiful Tongan drink, so we made some on Monday to survive the heat of the
week. After we had our p-day we had a discussion with an investigator then went
to a part member family's home for family home evening. Such a sweet family!
The first time I met the D family, I was just ridiculously impressed with how
polite and calm everything was handled. I know I'll never be that calm of a
parent, but they're good examples to look to.
Tuesday was rough. It was the funeral for the toddler I
mentioned last week, so we did a lot of preparing with that with the Relief
Society. Aah, I love that family so much. It was a hard time but their faith
was beautiful. All of the talks were just testimonies of the Plan of Salvation.
They also ended the funeral service with a huge Haka. Oh how I love the
Polynesian culture with all of my heart. It was so beautiful. After the funeral
we went and visited a sister that has been in the hospital then we went to
another part member family's home. Then we went and saw one of my favorite
families and had a little family night with them. It was the mum's birthday so
naturally we had to crash the evening. :)
Wednesday was great. We started off the morning by doing
service for Anna. We had a great conversation with her and her husband about
temples since they're building one right around the corner from where he grew
up in Italy. Then we went and saw a recent convert that hasn't been coming to
church for a bit and went on a crazy drive trying to find less active members.
We met one family where the mum is blind and when we introduced ourselves as
Sisters, she thought we were nuns. So we were talking for a bit and she said,
"Oh I'm so glad you Sisters are here and it wasn't those Mormon boys
knocking on the door." Hahaha... Awkward. But we saved it and she ended up
not hating us by the end of the conversation.
Thursday was really good. We went and saw Nana Julie with
Sister K and it was fun. I love them so much. Then we had a lesson with Bruce
and he loved the Plan of Salvation. He said he's going to start preparing for
baptism but he wants to read a lot more of the Book of Mormon. That is totally
okay with us! He's great. After Bruce's we went and saw a family in our ward
and it was a really nice evening. We were able to learn more about how they
came into contact with the church and to hear their testimonies. It was really
nice to hear their testimonies. After our visit with them we went and saw
Amanda! She's a single mum and really opened up to us about her trials and what
she's been through. So we talked for a while and then she asked us to give her
something to read so she can know what we believe. So we gave her some info
about the Plan of Salvation and then gave her a Book of Mormon and we'll go
back in a few days to see what she thought!
Friday was hectic. We had our Zone Training Meeting in the
morning but it went WAY over the time it was supposed to, so we were running
like mad trying to see the people that we had planned for the day. We were able
to visit quite a few and we were even able to take a young woman out with us in
the evening to try to find some people. It was fun.
Saturday we went and saw a few less active families that the
ward council had requested for us to visit and it was a lot of fun. I hadn't
met quite a few of them and it was great getting to know them.
Sunday we had meetings all morning, church all afternoon,
and trying to find people in the evening. It wasn't an overly exciting day but
it's the Sabbath, so nothing too crazy should be going on anyways. ;)
Every day we join together as a mission at 12 noon in prayer
and ask God for His help. We ask to have unity to be led by the Spirit and to
find those whom God has prepared. It's great and I can absolutely testify of
the Lord's hand in our lives every day. Life is good when you turn it to God. I
need to do it more often than I do.
Have a beautiful week. Stay cool, err, warm I guess. I'll
try to stay cool here.
Love,
Sister Danielle Laree Stott
Sorry for not taking pictures this week, but here's me in
front of Parliament House. Yayy for living in the "Aussie D.C." ;)
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