I tangiringkami ao ti a manga kaitibo rimwi!

SOOOO..... Another bout of chicken pox has struck the house of Eita wherein I reside and so my companion has it and he cannot leave until he heals so that he does not infect everyone.... Which means if I want to go out to work I have to split with the other missionaries in my house.... All is good though, the work is tough still but I am used to it by now... haha I bet that I will be eating some humble pie after making that declaration.

I tangiringkami ao ti a manga kaitibo rimwi!

The flood actually wasn't as bad as I anticipated, everyone returned to normal like the next day...But some of the outer islands were hit pretty hard, and that is why they sent out the supplies. I had dinner with the guy that organized most of the efforts to obtain the supplies and he bore testimony of it on the following Sunday..

That's all from here this week. Transfers should be known by next Monday as to whether I will be staying or going so we will see.

Tiabo

tekeraoi ngkami

Crazy week this last week. On Wednesday we felt some of the effects of the cyclone that is near Fiji. It rained for like 14 hours straight, and most of the time it rained HARD. I went with an elder from my house in the afternoon to check up on some people in the pouring rain and some of the people’s houses were flooded like knee deep. But instead of crying and complaining about how hard life can be and how terrible it was.... We walked up to their house and a lady was sitting on an inner tube inside her house just relaxing and another lady was using the flood water to clean the windows! These people are the best!!!!!!

Other than that I am working on a map for our area- it is pretty fun. 

Time is flying by. Sorry for not emailing last week, the email places were full. 

We had 2 investigators come to a baptism to watch with us, so that was cool.

A theme of sacrifice has come up in this last week:

1. Liahona article about Mary and how here life completely changed- it wasn't her will but she did it anyway
2. Jeffrey R. Holland talk about "Remember Lot's wife"
3. In Church we talked about the Rich Young Ruler

The Lord requires a lot of us IF we want to be exalted. If we want to just kick back and do our own thing then we can, and we won't receive the training and experience necessary to qualify for exaltation.
Helaman 10- Nephi gets rejected so much but he grows a lot closer to God and receives many blessings.

tekeraoi ngkami!

Elder Farner

Photos from our call on Christmas