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I would like to share an experience. Recently we haven't had very many new investigators and it was Sunday and we still had 0 new investigators for the week. We have a large teaching pool so I wasn't too worried about it, but we still read the first section of chapter 9 in PMG about finding people. The blessing came later that day when we lessoned with an investigator that I hadn't seen in a while and when we went to visit, her husband was there and sat in on the lesson in which we re-introduced the Book of Mormon to her and introduced it to him for the first time. His response was one of the most enthusiastic responses about reading and praying about the Book of Mormon. It was a testament to the words in PMG that go along the lines of "there are people being prepared to meet you".

Anyway, this last week was full of animal fatalities. Our landlord's cat got hit by a car or something because it was lying on the side of the road, another cat got hit by a car. And this last one is interesting: So our landlord has a bunch of baby pigs that were born a couple of weeks ago, and right now they are moving some of them from their mother, and to prevent them from always trying to run back to their mother, they stick them into bags and leave them in there for three days without any food (I think the thought is that they won't care where they get food as long as they get it once they get out of the bag, so they don't run to their mother anymore). Our landlord went to another part of the island for the weekend with his family and so one of the pigs that was in the bag got bitten by their dog so that was the third death. Just an interesting glimpse into some of the lesser happenings at the house.

The church is true, missionary work is true. Don't let the small stuff "eclipse' the bigger stuff in life, eternity is too important to lose out on temple blessings.

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Elder Farner

Teamwork makes the dream work - and crushes phones

First off a shout out to Genna and Keeva for being awesome. That is a very cute baby. Secondly, the title of this post is "Teamwork makes the dream work- and crushes phones".

Let me explain. At night I was using our phone as a light and as I went around a puddle, I dropped it on the ground, at which point Elder Hanks followed up by running over it with his bike. So we bought a new one today... Set, and spike. That phone looked like it belonged to Peter Parker because its screen was spider-webbed.

We have also been having a bit of a rough time this last week, as things haven't been coming to pass the way we planned. But as we all should know, Christ has felt all of the frustrations, disappointments, shame, guilt, sadness, etc. that we have felt. So we really aren't facing any of our problems without someone who understands.

Alma 7: 11-12: 11 And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people. 12 And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.

Keep on keeping on!

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Elder Farner

Kanabure and Tereaua

Starting off this email with a highlight:

Baptism. Kanabure and Tereaua. A couple who we were referred to by Kanabure's mother, Nei Titeebwa. They get baptized, awesome. Kanabure had to go twice because the prayer was wrong the first time. Anyway, after the baptism they share their testimonies. Tereaua shares hers: she explains that it had been a while since she had prayed and now she knows it is true because she had done it and to her had seen that it worked. She was in tears and it was very powerful. Kanabure then goes up and shares his testimony- he tells us he was a bad person, so bad he had to get baptized twice (as a joke, hopefully) and talked a bit about being born again. Way great, spirit was way strong.

Then the following day was Fast and Testimony meeting because last week we had District Conference. Titeebwa gets up and bears her testimony on the Temple. She told us before that in 2011 (I think) she went to the Temple right after her work was ending with Moroni High School (the church school here) and she wouldn’t have a job. So while she was at the temple, she asked for help, and when she returned, she got a job. Then she went last year to the Temple and prayed for her kids because they weren't members. And now, lo and behold, they are currently some of the coolest people ever that got baptized. So yeah, the Temple should be a priority in our lives for sure.

Lastly, a bit about repentance. Alma 33:11 “And thou didst hear me because of mine afflictions and my sincerity; and it is because of thy Son that thou hast been thus merciful unto me, therefore I will cry unto thee in all mine afflictions, for in thee is my joy; for thou hast turned thy judgments away from me, because of thy Son.”

Love you all and miss you all

Elder Farner