10/28/2013

                Oh before I forget, I got the package today with the ties and stuff for chrimis, thanks!! I can’t wait to open them in about 2 months! But those months will fly past, no doubt about that! Also, Please tell trace to cut his hair, he reminds me of Violet off of the Incredibles. And tell cam bam to stop growing, its freaking me out how much everybody is changing, weren’t they all supposed to stay how they were until I got back?! I’m realizing how much I miss all of our holiday traditions, it seems like just yesterday we got out of the winter season, now were heading back into it again, crazy. Here, winter is just a little rainier. So it reminds me a lot of being in Washington.

            I’m glad to see that My family is happy and healthy, I’m really grateful for technology too, I don’t know if I would be able to survive serving a mission if I wasn’t able to have contact with my family for two years. All In all, I guess that I would really have to work on my faith and trust in The Lord! I’m so grateful for the protection and safety that he provides you all while I am away. He knows that you are all my greatest treasure, so he helps me worry less by keeping you all busy and safe.

            I was just talking to the other Elder Fyffe and I shared with him one of my favorite things that I say to myself before I go into any lesson. It’s a quote that I made for myself, "Make them cry;" Let me explain. I’ve never been much of a crier these past years, don’t know why, but I was just too desensitized by the world... don’t know really. Anyway, I came into the MTC still with a non-mission mentality. But I remember the first time I cried, it was when Elder Holland shared a testimony about how God really does know our names. He said he has a personal witness that he knows each and every one of us by our names. I remember then looking at my nametag and tears started to fill my eyes. It was the coolest feeling ever to have this experience! After that moment, I did all that I could, in order to feel that same feeling as much as I could. I read the book of Mormon for hours every day, and by the time I reached 3rd Nephi, 11:8, I felt the same feeling again, and tears filled my eyes. It was at that moment that I realized that the Book of Mormon was true. The next time I cried was in my first lesson here in Tahiti. I bore testimony (in Tahitian) that I know I have a Heavenly Father and a Savior Jesus Christ. Tears streaming down my face, I knew that everything I had just said was true.

            I’m pretty sensitive now when it comes to bearing testimony about my Eternal Family. Almost every time, I get teary eyed, I hope you all know how much I really do love you! I was listening to a talk on night that said that when we cry, because of something we read, or something we hear, or something we say and we are touched or moved enough to shed a tear, Its God testifying to us that these things are true. We should then kneel down, without hesitation and thank our Heavenly Father for talking to us and letting us know that these things are true. God has talked to me a lot up to this point on my mission, because I’ve shed many tears of joy. My goal is to help others receive this same manifestation. So, I, with the help of the spirit, try to make my investigators cry. I’ve realized that it’s actually quite easy when I am in tune with the spirit. Countless people have cried in front of me during the lessons, and every time I see this happen, I say a little prayer of gratitude in my heart, to my Heavenly Father for talking and touching our investigators.

            I love my Mission so much. I hope that you all will get the occasion this week to shed a few tears of joy at church, or during scripture study or while praying. I live for these moments, because once you’ve tasted the love of God, you realize that it really is the most precious thing in the world. I love you all so much and hope that you all have a great Halloween! I’m dressing up as an Elder this year haha! Stay safe!!

Orometua Fyffe

 

 

10/21/2013

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            Thanks For the update this week, Ya, its flown by for me too, I feel like I wrote you just yesterday! Anyway for this week, we had another marriage and baptism!! Poehere on of our investigators got married and baptized the same day! So I had the special occasion (that seems to happen more and more frequently lately) to feel pure joy again! Seeing Poehere go into the waters of baptism, and come out 100 percent clean again, makes me feel so good about my mission and the fact that God sent me here, for this soul, and I kept my promise and helped her obtain the key to Eternal Life! It makes me so excited to meet all of the other people he will be placing in my path this last year of my mission! I was blessed enough to serve in the best mission in the Whole world, I don’t care what other missionaries say about theirs, because I know for a fact that you can’t beat Tahiti!

            As a zone, our goal is to get 20 baptisms in each ward before the end of the year, and with all the work my companion and I are doing, I don’t see us having any issues reaching this number. In the past few weeks we’ve had five, with 9 lined up for November, and we are hoping to fix 6 more this week! 20 souls saved by the end of the year, I pray to my Heavenly Father to help us find his lost sheep here in Tahiti. I know that with the simple faith I have in the Savior, we will rescue them. I love my mission so much, I’m so happy to be out in the field serving with my Cousins Austin Fyffe, Katie Mattingly, Keenan McMullin, and Austin Stevens, I bet they’re right there with me when I say I don’t regret leaving EVERYTHING behind for 2 years in order to experience true life, true joy and true happiness. Our lives might have changed completely, but the Church is always true and there is always joy to be found in the work!

            Anyway for this last Sunday, I was asked to give a little talk in church about missionary work, just before the meeting started. So I quickly scrambled a little talk together in 5 minutes and then shared it with the whole ward. It went really well; I shared D&C 18:15-16, and asked all the members in the ward who have served a mission to raise their hand. Then I said that these missionaries really know the meaning of this scripture because they have saved countless souls and felt the joy that comes only from missionary work. Then I invited all the other members who hadn’t served a mission to help us right now, to save souls with me and my companion and taste this joy that comes from doing missionary work. I bore testimony that Jesus has always been working to save his lost brothers and sisters, and that it was the right time to start helping him. I love preaching His gospel, I love saving souls, I love my mission so much!

            I hope that you will all stay safe this week, and try to invite one of your nonmember friends to church, who knows; maybe sometime in the future you will be a part of their conversion story. As for all of the pictures, there’s the wedding and baptism of Poehere and Omai, also a hike that I went on this morning, it was really awesome! I’ve missed hiking!! Anyway, I love you all so much, please stay safe this week!

Elder Fyffe

 

10/14/2013

                Well this week really has flown by. My companion and I really have been working pretty dang hard. We have 10 baptisms fixed at the moment, 9 of them shall come to pass in the month of November. It makes me so happy to say that I was a part of these people’s lives! I got one of the coolest surprises on my mission thus far this past Sunday. A family came up to me, (I baptized their daughter) and they told me that they have started going to temple prep classes and that they will be sealed as a family for time and all eternity in December. They invited me to go with them into the sealing!!! If my tear ducts weren’t clogged with Tahitian food I probably would have teared up a little. I got to see first had how much of a difference one missionary can make. I never thought that one person could make a difference, especially not me. But now I know that God sent me here for a reason, to make a difference in this family’s life!! I am so blessed to be his servant!!

            I remember the first time I went through the temple, I had all of the people I loved with me, family friends, all the people I wanted to see after this life. The only way that experience would have been better, much, much better, is if my sister was there. But hey, I will take her to the temple with me soon after my mission! I can’t wait to go to the Temple again, it’s been about a year since I last went... too long.

            We should be celebrating Christmas here on the 16th of December. I realized too, that All these next holidays, are my last holidays in Tahiti on my mission! It’s my last Halloween, last Thanksgiving and last Christmas- Crazy.

            Anyway, for the pictures this week, Elder Lee and I had to be traveling assistants and dropped off all of the baggage for all of the new missionaries. So along the way as we drove around the whole island of Tahiti, we stopped and some cool sites and took pictures. It’s crazy pretty here, and I can’t wait to show it all off to my family when we come back together after my mission. Well I think that’s pretty much it for this week, I have probably forgotten a few things, but hey, I should be able to remember them and tell you in next week’s letter.  I love you all so much and Pray about you all the time, Stay safe this week!

Elder Fyffe

 

10/08/2013

                Well here you go for these past 2 weeks! Sorry about last week, we were actually really too busy to get anything done for our p-day, I’m surprised I even found time to do things today, transfers are crazy! Anyway, we had 3 more baptisms since the last time, and we fixed 4 more, so before the end of the year, we should have 9 more baptisms! Crazy how blessed we are right now, God has been putting he children in our paths, just like I’ve been praying and fasting for! I loved general conference; it did make me miss home though! I can’t wait to go to priesthood with the Fyffe boys when I come home again!

            Anyway, the mission president is keeping me in the sector for the next 6 weeks because he said I’ve been really getting the place moving. Plus are bishop called the mission president asking him if they could keep me in the ward haha, I love this ward so much! Tonight Elder Lee and I are going to go pick up all the new missionaries at the airport! I can’t wait because I’m going to pretend like I’m a mute. I will let you know how that goes. I love and miss you all so much, you are all in my prayers and in the testimonies that I bear multiple times a day, take care this week and be safe!

            D&C 76:60- My thought for you all this week. I love you all so much and am so blessed to be a part of this amazing family! Wish I had more time to talk and tell you stories, but I gots to go, Faaitoito!

Orometua Fyffe