Fiji!

I don't have too much to talk about this week, sorry. My new companions and I are doing good, we're having a lot of fun together and have been able to see some cool miracles and experiences! The first one is that one night, we returned home and still had a bit of extra time before the curfew, so we decided to do some "miracle walking". I think I mentioned what that is already, but basically it's the last of the last resort things to do. It's too late to door knock, and there is nobody else left to visit, so you walk around the streets at night, hoping to talk to at least one or two people, because just that in itself would be a miracle. So as we're walking, we pass this "car park" (american translation = parking lot), with a family eating fish 'n chips in the back of their "ute" (american translation = pickup truck). Your welcome for the aussie vocab lessons for today. Anyways, my companion recognizes the dad as someone who looks like a fellow fijian, and next thing you know, they're conversing in their native tongue! In the meantime, my other companion and I are talking to the mom and playing with one of their little kids. We ended up getting invited over for a bbq next week! Anything involving free food or return appointments is a miracle, so bam - double miracle.

We also had a few dinner appointments where my companions and I taught a missionary lesson to the family, and both us and the family felt the Spirit, which is always a good sign!

We also visited an elderly couple; the husband is turning 93 next month! He was filling a bit under the weather though, and asked for a blessing. He group up in Fiji, and so my companion got to give a blessing in Fijian. Although I have no clue what he said (besides Jesus Christ and Amen), it was a pretty powerful experience, and the smile on the husband's face after was awesome to see.

And just yesterday, we had a dinner and a family home evening with one of our recent convert families, which was fun! We passed the rugby ball around with the kids, had some nice chicken and salad, and taught about prophets with a game called "don't eat the prophet" - it involved yelling, laughing, m&m's, and trying to help them what it means to part a sea and where Moses got his power from, it was fun!

Oh, and a little spiritual thought for today - how do you view people? As they are? Think of Alma the younger, and what kind of person he was. I guess we'd see him as a pretty horrible person. But then think about how God viewed him - what he could become. And then look at what he became. Same goes for just about every other great scriptural hero, from Moses to Peter. So how do you view others? And how do you view yourself? If you've ever watched The Prince of Egypt, there's a song called, "Look through Heaven's Eyes". I think we all need to practice seeing people as God would see them.

Anyways, that's all for this week, thanks everyone for your love and support!

Elder Ho