Baptisms and hospitals! :-)

Upside: I HAD MY FIRST BAPTISM!!!

Downside: I left immediately after for the hospital...

Upside: It was a sweet baptism and many patient and supporting ward members came! It was even conducted my our newly appointed Ward Mission Leader! Wahoo!

Downside: We happened to schedule it during a rugby tournament happening in our village in Wailoku. To which are investigator went and forgot about her baptism so we had to taxi down, walk (not me, my companion. I was in too much pain) across the muddy ruby field and get her for her baptism that was already late.

Upside: The hospital had really good food and I should be out tomorrow!! Yay! ( she was. ) 

Downside: I now know what it feels like to have an IV. They really start to hurt after 24 hours. 

*sorry about the picture. I was in lots of pain and my companion took this when I was first being admitted. haha

 

 

This picture is the baptism of Sharon Lovis. An indian with an austrailian husband. Only member in her family. So amazing and knows a lot about all the other religions and thereby knows this one is unique. :) Her baptism was heaps good. It was  all planned and prepared by our newly called bishopric and WML. It was great. We just got to come and enjoy it. unlike the last one which was stressful. haha

This picture is the baptism of Meresi. Her testimony is powerful. Her spirit is contagious. She had a sincere heart and real intent and the result is the amount of joy she is experiencing. Very inspiring. I love her. She is already preparing to serve a mission. 

The Rest of my week: 
I got a new companion! Sister I'aulualo finished her mission this last transfer and went home to Samoa! Crazy. I got my follow up trainer on thursday! She is awesome! I love her! Her name is Sister Fiu. She is from Samoa as well. A real hard worker and very dedicated. She was an answer to my prayers for this area that I love so much

the transfers were crazy. The whole WEEK was crazy. This picture is of the Tamavua Sisters that I was a trio with while waiting for my companion to fly in from her last area on a northern island. I love them. They are way fun and we learned very much from eachother. :) They're names are Sister Teupoorautoa (from tahiti) and sister Taufa (a Tongan from Australia) 

Service and Dress ups

August 8^th

I OFFICIALLY LOVE FISH.

The work is AMAZING.

This week has been amazing. I don't even know what to say. I am glad I made recordings earlier because I just don't know what to say. haha 

oh, I got my Fiji drivers License! I almost didn't pass the test. haha because I haven't really had that chance to practice and then I drove with the instructor and everything is backwards here and they don't have a lot of traffic rules. haha so it was hard and scary but in the end I passed! haha YAY? 

Sister Layton ( the mission president's wife) Joined us for a day to experience missionary work and it was awesome! It was super sweet and we had some amazingly powerful lessons! She also brought cheesecake that she made and I seriously cried as I ate it because I miss it SO MUCH. It was the BEST. 

I slipped again. But this time into a GIANT puddle. So I got wet. Luckily, we brought a member present named Lucia and she was wearing a sulu. She gave it to me to wear because I didn't want to go back and change because we were almost to the house. The funny part was that it was a Methodist sulu and had big crosses on it that you could still see even though I turned it inside out. hahaha 

Me and brother Esava! He is super funny man who always speaks in Fijian to mean and has me repeat it so that I can learn. He is great! We had dinner with his daughter this week. :)

Rachel August 16 2015

Service at Sister Lovis'. SoO much fun! Cutting her grass with machetes! :)

I have pictures! haha Here are some pretty ones you can send :) I am really going to miss Fiji. 

One of our STL's got sick and it this hospital and I am the only other sister in the area with a license so my companion and I joined the other STL to take on two areas and drive sisters to and from places. It has been quiet the adventure and we are always moving. I kinda miss the quiet peace of just having my companion and I in Wailoku. 

Drinking from a coconut just pulled from the tree and cut open. SO YUMMY!!

Playing dress up with a new and amazing investigator Sister Lovis! She pulled out some Saris for us to try on and then another traditional dress with pants (I forgot what it is called haha)