Admittedly a tough week
Not that I was homesick or unmotivated to do the work or anything like that, it was just tough because a lot of things fell through, a couple of our investigators are losing their desire to get baptized, we had a funeral on Friday, and a few other things. We stayed diligent, obedient, and focused, but man, things just didn't happen. Often on the mission they say the Lord challenges us with less effective days (in this case, a week) but I find that hard to believe because this IS His work, and I don't think He's any happier about it than we are, since we only have 2 years to serve, each and every day is crucial. But yeah, we still have a couple investigators who are awesome and on track to get baptized. In both cases though they have to get married to their boyfriends they're living with to get baptized. In one case the partner is already a member (oh yeah, the father of the kid we baptized a few weeks ago) but he wants the priesthood to be able to baptize his partner (girlfriend) but again they need to get married first!
Thursday Elder Hausia was sick so we stayed in the flat all that day. First time that's happened on my mission. Man in can get pretty boring. While he slept I spent most of the time either studying the New Testament or listening to John Bytheway talks :P.
Wednesday we had trade offs with the Innisfail elders again, this time I stayed in our area with Elder Vea. He's from Tonga too. Friday we had the funeral for the branch president's wife. Apparently her whole life she suffered from this spinal disease that caused her a lot of pain and she was forced to hunch over a little bit. She's been on oxygen and in and out of hospital for years but she was a pretty strong lady. We had dinner with them a couple of times and had a good sense of humor and sarcasm. First funeral I'd been to in years but there was a lot of people there and we got to help bury her casket.
We thought we'd catch a break by having some investigators at sacrament meeting but within the hour before church started all 3 of the ones who planned on coming fell through for different reasons. Bleh. But yeah this week will be a lot better now that it's done. Sunday we had our first official branch missionary corrleation meeting with the auxiliary presidents and a district councilor there as well so it was really effective. But yeah. Halloween we had dinner at a member's and talked to them about how they went from being Pentecostal to Mormon. On the drive home we maybe saw 2 or 3 kids trick or treating but like I said, it's not really a thing here. Cool. Well I'm trying to learn some Tongan so that'll be cool.
Elder Cummings
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