This week we worked hard and it was really good! We had some really cool experiences!
We found 5 new people which is a lot for us! We usually find one person per week at most! We had some Elders in my zone find 19 people this week! So, that was wild! The five people we found were Gerry who I told you a little bit about last week! Then we also found Gay, Nathaniel, Ricky, and Esther. We have return appointments with all of them so we are so excited to get to know them a little bit better. Esther seems to be the most promising besides Gerry! She is a cute young mom and was so excited when we stopped by! She even asked us if she could give us her number. I’m excited to go back and talk to her again!
Yesterday at church we had a scary thing happen! An elderly man was speaking and he was speaking in Tongan, but I could tell it was with power. He then paused for a minute and all of the sudden he fell over and no one was able to catch him. He stopped breathing and his granddaughter, who has medical experience, was able to perform CPR for about 15 or 20 minutes, until the paramedics arrived and were finally able to revive him. It was so scary and I hope he will be okay! Please keep him in your prayers! His name is Brother Folau!
A little bit more about Gerry! We had a lesson with him on Friday at Sisi's. It wasn’t the best we ever taught, but we think that it got across to Gerry! He is such a cool guy. He told us that he actually has a 2 year old daughter named Isabella, and the reason he wants to come closer to God is for her. We thought that was super sweet.
Our cute nine year old that we have been teaching (Fanga) got baptized this week! It was such a special day and she made us feel so loved! She kept coming up to us and giving us the biggest hugs! The cutest part was she made sure that we had leis made for us because we helped her get baptized. It was so cute. The coolest part of it all is that we started teaching her a couple of months ago and she really wanted her Dad to baptize her, but he wasn’t worthy to hold the priesthood. So, as we taught her he would sit in on lessons and take notes. There was one point where he realized what the Atonement really was, and that was so special. Anyways, he became worthy and he is actually the one that baptized and confirmed her! So that was special. Before the baptism I sat by him and asked him how he was feeling. He told me how nervous he was and I just looked at him and said " Its okay, you can’t mess this up. If you say the wrong thing you can just try it again and it will all work out." He looked at me and he was just glowing. Literally the change in this man over the last few weeks has been amazing.
This week we have focused a lot on choosing to be kind over being right! We have been talking to many members about how being kind is the best way to show Christlike love! Even when people don’t always believe what we say to be true, if they feel the kindness and love of Christ, I believe they will eventually come around!
Anyways, that’s my week! Also, my mission President changed the rule and we can now use messenger to message our friends on p-day, so if any of you want to message me feel free! Email works too!
Love you all!
Remember Jesus loves you no matter what!
Sister Poulson
The humidity has been killing me! So, here is my dying at the track!
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