Salama daholo! Inona vaovao? I hope you all had a great week this week! We had a great week here. Just working hard to get this area going and it is coming along slowly but surely. This week not too many people were rude, in fact one lady was really nice and decided to spray us with a hose while we were trying to talk to her. It was a really hot day and I was sweating pretty bad so it was a good cool down. Other than that we found some really cool people and have a man named Francois who I am pumped about. He is searching for the truth. Most people here don't care about that, is seems like, so it is great and I know he will finally find it as he keeps his commitments! It will be great to visit him again this week! This week I have been reading about Alma and the Sons of Mosiah in the Book of Mormon. One thing I have thought a lot about this week is what the difference is between Laman and Lemuel and those that see all this amazing miracles and angels and stuff and still don't believe and those like Alma and the Sons of Mosiah who totally change their lives when things like that happen...To me I think it is just faith and desire. It takes a lot of work to keep the flame of your faith burning. You gotta truly want it. It would be nice if all it took was one spiritual experience or one miracle in our lives and then our faith is strong enough to last us til the end. But its not like that. The flame of our faith is just like an actual fire. We all love when we throw some lighter fluid on the fire or some paper, it burns up all nice and warm. But after a little while it dies, just like our testimony and conversion. It isn't the big spiritual experiences that keep us on the straight and narrow. Its the small little decisions everyday that we make: reading our scriptures, praying with sincerity, keeping our thoughts clean, focusing on the Savior, repentance, and all of the primary answers. Sadly that takes a lot more work than just having an angel come to us and saying, look its all true, follow your brother he knows what he's doing. It takes our true and deepest desire to endure to the end. To change. To follow the Savior. Many of us want those big amazing experiences that they can one day make a Mormon Message out of. But that isn't what will do it for us. It is all the little things we do everyday. And one day our little flame of faith will burn big and bright. I know that as we do the things the living Prophets and Apostles teach us and guide us to do, we will never fall away. It takes a lot of work but the blessings will be innumerable. I hope you can all find a way to strengthen your faith and desire to follow the Savior this Christmas. I am so grateful for what He has done for me. I hope you all have a great week! Mazotoa!
Views from apartment buildings haha.
Some pics of the hike we took today with the Poussin Family.
Pics from a dinner with Benjamin and his wife Meline. They are 22 and 21 years old. It was weird hanging out with a married couple that is my same age haha.
