Elder Christian 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