Hey everyone!
Life here in Fiji is just fantastic!
So tomorrow is our Zone Training Meeting in Lautoka(about an hour and a half from our area) and we usually come up to Nadi(30 minutes from Lautoka) and email here on Mondays so we can have P Day with the whole zone. And I was planning on seeing my last companion, Brother Vuli at our P Day. But we were leaving Sigatoka and stopped at The Hot Bread Kitchen(popular bread shop) to get some breakfast before we left this morning, and who do I see? Brother Vuli! He was taking the bus, but the busses always stop in Sigatoka for about 10 minutes. He was going to Suva to get his Mission stuff all figured out. He received his mission call and is going to serve in the Papua New Guinea Mission beginning in November. I was so happy to see him again. He was definitely one of my favorite companions.
We've been visiting a less active a lot lately, Ricardo, he is 15 and was baptized in New Zealand with his mom a couple of years ago. But he is now living with his sister and uncle here in Sigatoka. His sister, Cathy, is Catholic and we share with her every now and then but she wasn't really interested. But she just randomly showed up to church with Ricardo on Sunday. That was pretty cool. So we plan on visiting them again this week.
Our District Leader had committed us to pass out a Book of Mormon every day last week so we tried a lot of that to find some new investigators. Praying that someone will be willing to take the lessons from that.
Well, Love you guys!
Loloma,
Elder Beilman
Elder Beilman
Monday
July 26, 2015
Hey everyone,
Things were good this week. Our 2 baptisms that we had 2 weeks ago were confirmed this week. That was good. We went to the house that we went to last friday, but they were busy. So we plan on going back this friday. But we were supposed to get the truck fixed last week, but the people at the dealership didn't get it done. They are taking forever. So the truck still needs repaired, but we are waiting for the go from our leaders, and the dealership. We are struggling a bit to find new investigators, but our Zone Leaders came today and gave us some tips on what we could do to help strengthen our members and gave us some ideas on finding more people.
But I haven't heard about the My Plan thing. Sounds like a good idea though. One of my worst fears is going less active. After learning so much, then to go home and change back to my old self is not what I want. So having something to help a return missionary would be way good. I think that would be really good for Fiji. Unfortunately I've met many Return missionaries here that are now less active or inactive. Its really sad. But we are doing all we can to help them come back.
Love you guys!
Love, Elder Beilman
Things were good this week. Our 2 baptisms that we had 2 weeks ago were confirmed this week. That was good. We went to the house that we went to last friday, but they were busy. So we plan on going back this friday. But we were supposed to get the truck fixed last week, but the people at the dealership didn't get it done. They are taking forever. So the truck still needs repaired, but we are waiting for the go from our leaders, and the dealership. We are struggling a bit to find new investigators, but our Zone Leaders came today and gave us some tips on what we could do to help strengthen our members and gave us some ideas on finding more people.
But I haven't heard about the My Plan thing. Sounds like a good idea though. One of my worst fears is going less active. After learning so much, then to go home and change back to my old self is not what I want. So having something to help a return missionary would be way good. I think that would be really good for Fiji. Unfortunately I've met many Return missionaries here that are now less active or inactive. Its really sad. But we are doing all we can to help them come back.
Love you guys!
Love, Elder Beilman
July 19, 2015
We had a good week this week. We haven't had much people to teach recently, so we've been trying to find more and more people. On Friday, we were driving back from this area towards the interior- Nadrala. To get there, we have to pass through this village, Naroro, and on our way back, from Nadrala, I had the feeling that we needed to stop at Naroro and talk to someone. So we are driving down the mountain and that is all I could think about. When we get to the village, I look at my companion and tell him "one day, we are going to OYM here". To which he replied "okay". We kept driving down and it hit me again "turn around and OYM there". So I look at my companion again and tell him lets OYM today. We turned around and parked the truck and started to walk. We walked toward a house where there was about 4 men sitting outside on their porch talking and one approached us. So we started talking to him and he took us inside his house. We then shared about us missionaries and just got to know them a bit. We left a restoration pamphlet at their house and set up a return appointment. Only 1 problem- I'm not sure if we will have the truck at that time... Because we are supposed to take it in for repairs today and I don't know how long it will take to fix. We didn't find out that we were going to take the truck in until after we told them we were going to come back next Friday.. So it will be interesting to see how this week goes.
Other than that, it should be fun!
Love you guys!
Elder Beilman
Other than that, it should be fun!
Love you guys!
Elder Beilman
July 12, 2015~ Baptisms!
Hey everyone!
We had a good week! 2 Baptisms! Tuni and Tevita, they are both 10 years old and they are doing great! We had the baptism at a river that leads into the ocean. It was really good. Tuni's little sister Amelia(8 years old) was baptized as well. Everything was just easier to have them all done at the same time. The father of Tuni and Amelia performed the baptisms for all 3 of them. Which was really great, I would much rather have the father of them perform the baptism than one of us.
I've heard a bit about the Supreme Courts decision. That is really unfortunate considering that the United States began because of religious reasons-then to have the supreme court to go against that. The world truly is getting further and further away from God. As long as we are doing what we are supposed to do and continue pressing forward, we can avoid the world. Like the Savior's teaching to be "in the world, but not of the world".
Hope all is well!
Loloma Levu,
Elder Beilman
We had a good week! 2 Baptisms! Tuni and Tevita, they are both 10 years old and they are doing great! We had the baptism at a river that leads into the ocean. It was really good. Tuni's little sister Amelia(8 years old) was baptized as well. Everything was just easier to have them all done at the same time. The father of Tuni and Amelia performed the baptisms for all 3 of them. Which was really great, I would much rather have the father of them perform the baptism than one of us.
I've heard a bit about the Supreme Courts decision. That is really unfortunate considering that the United States began because of religious reasons-then to have the supreme court to go against that. The world truly is getting further and further away from God. As long as we are doing what we are supposed to do and continue pressing forward, we can avoid the world. Like the Savior's teaching to be "in the world, but not of the world".
Hope all is well!
Loloma Levu,
Elder Beilman
Thursday
July 5, 2015
Hey Everyone!
Thanks for the email!
We had a crazy week. First, we had zone p day, so we weren't in our area Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday was our Zone Training Meeting. Also got a call from President telling us that Brother Vuli(the ward missionary I was working with) is getting transferred to Tavua(My last area). We were both pretty sad, I really loved working with him, we had a lot of fun together. And we worked way hard. Then on Thursday, we were driving to an appointment and we got into a accident with a horse... Yeah, a horse. We were going about 35km/h(20ish mph) and a guy was chasing a horse to go back to his land. Well, the horse was getting wild and started running. and it was running at an angle that I wasn't able to see her.
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This is kind of what it was like. The horse came from a field on the left running almost parallel with us until it came to the driveway then tried to cross the road. So there wasn't much I could do. I slowed down as much as I could, but it hit the left headlight and quarter panel. put some good dents in the truck. We were both okay, just the truck took a beating, about $2500 worth.
Then on Friday, we had to go to Nadi to get my new companion(Elder van der Linden, from Australia) and then had to wait about an hour and a half to get a quote for the truck.
But we are planning on having a couple of baptisms on Sunday this week! Looking forward to that! Still doing well!
Thanks for everything!
Loloma Levu
Elder Beilman
Thanks for the email!
We had a crazy week. First, we had zone p day, so we weren't in our area Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday was our Zone Training Meeting. Also got a call from President telling us that Brother Vuli(the ward missionary I was working with) is getting transferred to Tavua(My last area). We were both pretty sad, I really loved working with him, we had a lot of fun together. And we worked way hard. Then on Thursday, we were driving to an appointment and we got into a accident with a horse... Yeah, a horse. We were going about 35km/h(20ish mph) and a guy was chasing a horse to go back to his land. Well, the horse was getting wild and started running. and it was running at an angle that I wasn't able to see her.
___________ l
Driveway l
horse ^ ** lu l
-> ^ ** ls l
^ l l
^ l l
The asterisks(*) are bushes
This is kind of what it was like. The horse came from a field on the left running almost parallel with us until it came to the driveway then tried to cross the road. So there wasn't much I could do. I slowed down as much as I could, but it hit the left headlight and quarter panel. put some good dents in the truck. We were both okay, just the truck took a beating, about $2500 worth.
Then on Friday, we had to go to Nadi to get my new companion(Elder van der Linden, from Australia) and then had to wait about an hour and a half to get a quote for the truck.
But we are planning on having a couple of baptisms on Sunday this week! Looking forward to that! Still doing well!
Thanks for everything!
Loloma Levu
Elder Beilman
June 28, 2015
Hello everyone!
Its crazy to think that Curtis is starting his mission. I hope he enjoys missouri. do you know what his email is? I'll have to write him soon. I'm curious as to where his first area will be.
But things here are good, we are looking forward to about 3 baptisms soon. Just getting the interviews and everything done for it. The father wants to baptize the kid we are teaching, but he has been gone for training for the military for a couple of weeks. so he needs to get his interview first, then we will have the baptism.
Our other investigator, Cama, is doing way good! We talked about the Book of Mormon in our lesson on Thursday. We asked him what his thoughts were about the Book of Mormon and he smiled for a second and said he was scared. So we sat there for a minute and after about a minute of silence he looked up again, smiled and said "its true". That was one of the happiest moments on my mission. He has such a strong desire to do what is right and wants to learn. He is the man! He currently lives with his grandparents, and they are pretty strong methodist. So they aren't too happy about him coming to church. His grandfather was in the hospital last week, and Cama had asked if we could give him a blessing. So we went up there and gave him a blessing and now he is doing well, so that is really good. Hopefully it softened his heart a little bit. I'm so grateful for the priesthood and the power that comes with it. Heavenly Father truly has given us much.
Thank you for everything!
Love you all!
Love, Elder Beilman
Its crazy to think that Curtis is starting his mission. I hope he enjoys missouri. do you know what his email is? I'll have to write him soon. I'm curious as to where his first area will be.
But things here are good, we are looking forward to about 3 baptisms soon. Just getting the interviews and everything done for it. The father wants to baptize the kid we are teaching, but he has been gone for training for the military for a couple of weeks. so he needs to get his interview first, then we will have the baptism.
Our other investigator, Cama, is doing way good! We talked about the Book of Mormon in our lesson on Thursday. We asked him what his thoughts were about the Book of Mormon and he smiled for a second and said he was scared. So we sat there for a minute and after about a minute of silence he looked up again, smiled and said "its true". That was one of the happiest moments on my mission. He has such a strong desire to do what is right and wants to learn. He is the man! He currently lives with his grandparents, and they are pretty strong methodist. So they aren't too happy about him coming to church. His grandfather was in the hospital last week, and Cama had asked if we could give him a blessing. So we went up there and gave him a blessing and now he is doing well, so that is really good. Hopefully it softened his heart a little bit. I'm so grateful for the priesthood and the power that comes with it. Heavenly Father truly has given us much.
Thank you for everything!
Love you all!
Love, Elder Beilman
Sunday
June 7, 2015
Hey!
The truck has been helping a lot! We've been able to get a lot of lessons now. it has been great! We just started teaching a 10 year old boy, Tuni. He didn't get baptized when he was 8, so we should have a baptism soon. And our other investigator, Maggie, we are just praying that she can have the chance to come to church. She always goes to Naboro, about 2 hours away to visit her husband and kids.
Things are going well here, we just got a member from another island, Vanua Levu, that moved here last week. She is a return missionary from the Salt Lake City South mission. She is great! She had asked us for a Book of Mormon and a restoration pamphlet at church yesterday so she can give it to a friend of hers. Said she'll let us know when we can go and visit them. Her and her mom are the only members in her family, and they are super strong! They will be awesome here in our area.
We have zone conference this week! I'm really excited for that! President Layton is great! I love learning from him.
Thanks for everything!
Loloma,
Elder Beilman
The truck has been helping a lot! We've been able to get a lot of lessons now. it has been great! We just started teaching a 10 year old boy, Tuni. He didn't get baptized when he was 8, so we should have a baptism soon. And our other investigator, Maggie, we are just praying that she can have the chance to come to church. She always goes to Naboro, about 2 hours away to visit her husband and kids.
Things are going well here, we just got a member from another island, Vanua Levu, that moved here last week. She is a return missionary from the Salt Lake City South mission. She is great! She had asked us for a Book of Mormon and a restoration pamphlet at church yesterday so she can give it to a friend of hers. Said she'll let us know when we can go and visit them. Her and her mom are the only members in her family, and they are super strong! They will be awesome here in our area.
We have zone conference this week! I'm really excited for that! President Layton is great! I love learning from him.
Thanks for everything!
Loloma,
Elder Beilman
Tuesday
May 31, 2015
Its been exciting these last couple of weeks. Haven't had a baptism for a while, but we are working with a lot of less active members to bring them back and trying to keep the recent converts active.
I'll be driving a Toyota Hilux(truck) next week. Right now we have a Toyota Yaris(car).
Last week we have 17 lessons, 10 of which were less active lessons. the car helped a lot! But my companion is great! Brother Vuli, he is waiting for his mission call. I'm so excited working with Fijian companions, they are a lot of fun! Missions are amazing, and when you have a companion that you can connect with and everything, just makes it so much better. I'll try to send some pictures!
Loloma Levu!
Elder Beilman
I'll be driving a Toyota Hilux(truck) next week. Right now we have a Toyota Yaris(car).
Last week we have 17 lessons, 10 of which were less active lessons. the car helped a lot! But my companion is great! Brother Vuli, he is waiting for his mission call. I'm so excited working with Fijian companions, they are a lot of fun! Missions are amazing, and when you have a companion that you can connect with and everything, just makes it so much better. I'll try to send some pictures!
Loloma Levu!
Elder Beilman
May 24, 2015
Hey Everyone!
This week was good. My companion Elder Kanongata'a got transferred to Taveuni(another island). So I have a new companion. He is a ward missionary from Suva. His name is Brother Vuli, he is the man! I'm excited to be working with him. He is actually related to one of my last companions, Elder Tuinamoala. Sorry this is short, we have a busy day today! We are going to go to the sand dunes and take some pictures and yeah.. So I'll try to send the pictures next week. Oh and we have a vehicle now!! I'm driving a toyota yaris. I'll try to send a picture of it next week, the computer I'm on today wont let me do it.
Vinaka valevu!
Loloma levu
Elder Beilman
This week was good. My companion Elder Kanongata'a got transferred to Taveuni(another island). So I have a new companion. He is a ward missionary from Suva. His name is Brother Vuli, he is the man! I'm excited to be working with him. He is actually related to one of my last companions, Elder Tuinamoala. Sorry this is short, we have a busy day today! We are going to go to the sand dunes and take some pictures and yeah.. So I'll try to send the pictures next week. Oh and we have a vehicle now!! I'm driving a toyota yaris. I'll try to send a picture of it next week, the computer I'm on today wont let me do it.
Vinaka valevu!
Loloma levu
Elder Beilman
Monday
May 17, 2014
Hey everyone!
I got the Birthday package! Thank you so much! I like The Piano Guys CD, its way good! I like the shirt too! Richard(the one with cancer) is the one who lived in Germany right? But now he is in Texas. I think that is him, is he doing well?
Tell Curt to catch a lot of fish for me too. Man, I'm kind of sad I wont get to see Curt before he begins his mission. I wanted to go fishing with him again before he left. That's alright, I guess I'll just go with Darrin when I get back right Darrin? But it will be kind of cold still when I get home, so maybe not. We'll see.
We had a good week, skype was really good this time. I got to talk to my dad and his wife Kim for a while, then I was talking to my brother Bryce. That was really nice, I got to see my nephew as well, Bryce Jr.
Tuesday was good. We had district meeting and our District Leader, Elder Day, made a cake that was actually really good. I haven't had cake for a long time. but I ended up getting a cold that day as well. I'm still coughing but its going away. just taking its time. the weather is cooling down a lot lately. Last night was pretty chilly, but good thing I have a blanket. Our study room is almost outside, it has a big screen around it and a ton of windows, so the wind blows in really easily, and it gets cold, so we do studies on our beds inside sometimes.
Our investigator, Maggie, has been really busy lately so we haven't been able to visit her in like 3 weeks. Hopefully we can see her soon.
Well I hope you all have a good week!
Love you guys!
Love, Elder Beilman
I got the Birthday package! Thank you so much! I like The Piano Guys CD, its way good! I like the shirt too! Richard(the one with cancer) is the one who lived in Germany right? But now he is in Texas. I think that is him, is he doing well?
Tell Curt to catch a lot of fish for me too. Man, I'm kind of sad I wont get to see Curt before he begins his mission. I wanted to go fishing with him again before he left. That's alright, I guess I'll just go with Darrin when I get back right Darrin? But it will be kind of cold still when I get home, so maybe not. We'll see.
We had a good week, skype was really good this time. I got to talk to my dad and his wife Kim for a while, then I was talking to my brother Bryce. That was really nice, I got to see my nephew as well, Bryce Jr.
Tuesday was good. We had district meeting and our District Leader, Elder Day, made a cake that was actually really good. I haven't had cake for a long time. but I ended up getting a cold that day as well. I'm still coughing but its going away. just taking its time. the weather is cooling down a lot lately. Last night was pretty chilly, but good thing I have a blanket. Our study room is almost outside, it has a big screen around it and a ton of windows, so the wind blows in really easily, and it gets cold, so we do studies on our beds inside sometimes.
Our investigator, Maggie, has been really busy lately so we haven't been able to visit her in like 3 weeks. Hopefully we can see her soon.
Well I hope you all have a good week!
Love you guys!
Love, Elder Beilman
May 10, 2015
Hey Everyone!
I'm 22 already? Man, time flies...
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY JULIE! And all mothers who end up reading this post!
Today was really good, I was able to skype my dad and brother. That was a big highlight for me lately. It was really nice to see my dad and his wife Kim, and then my Brother.
We had a good week this week, on tuesday we went to lautoka for our Zone Training Meeting. that was really good! I then went on exchanges with my District Leader, Elder Day. He is on of the Airport Elders, and it was crazy! We had to go to the airport to pick up and drop off missionaries all day! Because all the missionaries in this area, all fly through Fiji. So when someone from one of these islands goes to america, or new zealand, australia, kiribati, fiji, christmas island, tonga, samoa and some others, they have a layover in Fiji, and sometimes they have to wait a couple of days, so they stay in a hotel, or with some of the missionaries in Nadi.
We are looking at some new investigators this week, so that is pretty exciting! We need some new ones, we have a couple of referrals from members so that will be good.
Well, Love you guys!
Love, Elder Beilman
I'm 22 already? Man, time flies...
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY JULIE! And all mothers who end up reading this post!
Today was really good, I was able to skype my dad and brother. That was a big highlight for me lately. It was really nice to see my dad and his wife Kim, and then my Brother.
We had a good week this week, on tuesday we went to lautoka for our Zone Training Meeting. that was really good! I then went on exchanges with my District Leader, Elder Day. He is on of the Airport Elders, and it was crazy! We had to go to the airport to pick up and drop off missionaries all day! Because all the missionaries in this area, all fly through Fiji. So when someone from one of these islands goes to america, or new zealand, australia, kiribati, fiji, christmas island, tonga, samoa and some others, they have a layover in Fiji, and sometimes they have to wait a couple of days, so they stay in a hotel, or with some of the missionaries in Nadi.
We are looking at some new investigators this week, so that is pretty exciting! We need some new ones, we have a couple of referrals from members so that will be good.
Well, Love you guys!
Love, Elder Beilman
May 3, 2015
Thanks for the email, I appreciate it.
Right now, they are working on the temple, last year, it had got rain damage. They plan on re-opening it sometime next year, but I don't think I'll be here for it. But that's okay, I came here so that others can have the opportunity of going there.
I was in the service council in St. George in my YSA ward, and we were responsible for helping the people with disabilities to have sacrament meeting for one month. That was a great month!! I loved it, and seeing the people come and sing and do what they could was just an amazing thing to me. I felt for them, and saw them as our Heavenly Father did which enabled me to love them, even though I didn't know them very well.
Thanks again for the email!
Love,
Elder Beilman
Right now, they are working on the temple, last year, it had got rain damage. They plan on re-opening it sometime next year, but I don't think I'll be here for it. But that's okay, I came here so that others can have the opportunity of going there.
I was in the service council in St. George in my YSA ward, and we were responsible for helping the people with disabilities to have sacrament meeting for one month. That was a great month!! I loved it, and seeing the people come and sing and do what they could was just an amazing thing to me. I felt for them, and saw them as our Heavenly Father did which enabled me to love them, even though I didn't know them very well.
Thanks again for the email!
Love,
Elder Beilman
April 26, 2015
I hope all is going well in the States!
We had a good week here in Sigatoka, we have a baptismal date for May 16th, her name is Maggie. She is way good. She came to church on Sunday too. We are really excited for her! Her mom and sister are members, but she never got baptized when they did. Her mom and sister are converts from about 2007. They are really strong! But we are planning on seeing them a lot this week and the next couple of weeks to strengthen her testimony.
Its really hot right now, we are moving from the wet season to the dry season, which means it will be cooling down as well. Which will be kind of nice. Good thing I have a blanket. The area I'm in is really beautiful, there are a lot of nice beaches and resorts. There is a man made island called Shrangri La. Its pretty nice, every time we take the bus to one of the villages we go to, it drives on to the island and picks up and drops off people working there. Sometimes tourists too. But a lot of people think I'm a tourist, I don't like it haha. But that's okay, at least they are super nice.
Thanks for everything!
Elder Beilman
We had a good week here in Sigatoka, we have a baptismal date for May 16th, her name is Maggie. She is way good. She came to church on Sunday too. We are really excited for her! Her mom and sister are members, but she never got baptized when they did. Her mom and sister are converts from about 2007. They are really strong! But we are planning on seeing them a lot this week and the next couple of weeks to strengthen her testimony.
Its really hot right now, we are moving from the wet season to the dry season, which means it will be cooling down as well. Which will be kind of nice. Good thing I have a blanket. The area I'm in is really beautiful, there are a lot of nice beaches and resorts. There is a man made island called Shrangri La. Its pretty nice, every time we take the bus to one of the villages we go to, it drives on to the island and picks up and drops off people working there. Sometimes tourists too. But a lot of people think I'm a tourist, I don't like it haha. But that's okay, at least they are super nice.
Thanks for everything!
Elder Beilman
April 19, 2015~ Transfer to Sigatoka
We had a good week this week. I'm now in Sigatoka, which is on the same island as my last area, just on the opposite side. There was a car here, and now its gone to suva. Which has made things a little more difficult. The area is really really big! One of the biggest areas in the mission. It makes it a little hard to get back at night haha. We have to hitch sometimes, but most fijians are super nice and will pick us up.
But all is well here in Fiji!
Loloma levu!
Elder Beilman
But all is well here in Fiji!
Loloma levu!
Elder Beilman
April 5, 2015
Hey Everyone!
This week was really amazing! Its amazing to see the hand of the Lord in our lives' each day. This week, was one of the most rewarding weeks that I've had so far on my mission. George was baptized on Saturday. That was just so amazing. The service was good and it was just great! He wanted it so badly! And finally, after 8 months of taking the lessons he was able to partake of the waters of Baptism! He was confirmed on Sunday. Then we had a really special Fast and Testimony meeting. It was one of the most powerful meetings I've been to. And I had to go and share my testimony as well, transfer calls are tomorrow and I'm thinking I'll be leaving Tavua. Which I don't want to go. This area has put a big impact on my heart. My first area as well. But at 6 months, I was ready to leave. But Tavua, I could stay here the rest of my mission, and I would be 100% happy as could be. I've grown to love this area a lot. The people here have made all the difference. Its not an easy area, and having the members we have, it helped out so much. There are a couple of members here that I will never forget.
Yesterday we had some lessons fall through, so we went to one of our members that is a less active that we had seen on Wednesday. He told us that he planned on coming to church, but he didn't come. So we went to see what happened. Come to find out that he was sick and needed a blessing. His wife was trying to get a hold of us, but she didn't have our number or anything so she was just trying to figure out what to do. Then as we walked up to the door, her daughter pointed at the window, but it was dark outside and there was curtains, so she wasn't able to see us. But when the mother came up she saw us and opened the door. Asked for a priesthood blessing, and we gave him one. After the blessing, he seemed a lot better. His wife said he couldn't even really talk because his throat was kind of filled with mucus and it was hard for him to breathe. But he was doing well after the blessing. I ended up trading him watches. I had the exact same watch, but white and blue. His was Black with red. He had been asking me to trade with him for a long time, but now he finally got to. He was way happy! It was really funny!
Really good week!
Loloma Levu,
Elder Beilman
This week was really amazing! Its amazing to see the hand of the Lord in our lives' each day. This week, was one of the most rewarding weeks that I've had so far on my mission. George was baptized on Saturday. That was just so amazing. The service was good and it was just great! He wanted it so badly! And finally, after 8 months of taking the lessons he was able to partake of the waters of Baptism! He was confirmed on Sunday. Then we had a really special Fast and Testimony meeting. It was one of the most powerful meetings I've been to. And I had to go and share my testimony as well, transfer calls are tomorrow and I'm thinking I'll be leaving Tavua. Which I don't want to go. This area has put a big impact on my heart. My first area as well. But at 6 months, I was ready to leave. But Tavua, I could stay here the rest of my mission, and I would be 100% happy as could be. I've grown to love this area a lot. The people here have made all the difference. Its not an easy area, and having the members we have, it helped out so much. There are a couple of members here that I will never forget.
Yesterday we had some lessons fall through, so we went to one of our members that is a less active that we had seen on Wednesday. He told us that he planned on coming to church, but he didn't come. So we went to see what happened. Come to find out that he was sick and needed a blessing. His wife was trying to get a hold of us, but she didn't have our number or anything so she was just trying to figure out what to do. Then as we walked up to the door, her daughter pointed at the window, but it was dark outside and there was curtains, so she wasn't able to see us. But when the mother came up she saw us and opened the door. Asked for a priesthood blessing, and we gave him one. After the blessing, he seemed a lot better. His wife said he couldn't even really talk because his throat was kind of filled with mucus and it was hard for him to breathe. But he was doing well after the blessing. I ended up trading him watches. I had the exact same watch, but white and blue. His was Black with red. He had been asking me to trade with him for a long time, but now he finally got to. He was way happy! It was really funny!
Really good week!
Loloma Levu,
Elder Beilman
Here is a picture of the Baptism of George
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