09/09/2013

            Well prepare yourselves for a ton of pictures; I’ve got a lot to catch up on!! Let’s start out with how my birthday has gone by so far..... Awesome! This morning at 2 I was woken up because we had to cast out a DEMON IN OUR HOUSE...! Ya, It has been a very memorable day thus far. It was pretty freaky too haha, but we’re all safe and there are hopefully no demons anymore.  It was really nice though because in the morning, the other Elder sang happy birthday to me and gave me a cake! I really like cake now, I don’t know why.

            Anyway, this week has been absolutely incredible! We fixed 8 baptisms, four of them will be at the end of this month and the other four will happen before the end of this year. I love my new sector so much! The lord has really blessed me. There are times I even feel guilty of how blessed I have been on my mission. I have a strong testimony of eternal families, it’s my absolute favorite thing to talk about and testify about. I’m so grateful for my family, and I love them so much! I love you all so much!

            I’m so grateful to be a part of the Dispensation of the fullness of times. The Lord sent all of the prophets before our time, to prepare our generation for success. Elder Holland told us in the MTC that all the other prophets were happy to "fail," Because they knew that our generation would succeed. I’m so thankful for all of the work our ancestors did for us up until this point; we wouldn’t be having any success if it wasn’t for them. I love this church and my time to serve the Lord. I know that even though the mission is hard, the Lord is preparing me, and helping me live up to my divine nature. One day I will live up to the Title as a son of God, because I’m working my hardest for the next few years to make a difference and to make you all proud. I love you all so much, stay safe this week!

Elder Fyffe

 

Transfer

08/26/2013 

I cant write much this week again because I'm being transferred!! I'm going back to Tahiti and going to be a zone leader! I leave tomorrow so I will have to send you pictures next week, I took a picture with all the families! Holy cow these people love me, I got so many gifts, My objective was to be there for them, and they all told me I accomplished my goal! I love you guys! 

Elder Fyffe

08/18/2013

 

      Well this week has flown by, we have a baptisms today, pretty soon here actually, so I don't have a lot of time to write, I will be giving the talk on baptism. Its so great to be serving here, right now I am really loving my mission. The spirit is there with us everyday and I couldn't be happier working with the Savior to bring back all of my lost brothers and sisters! Life as a missionary is short, yet sweet. And the after-taste (blessings) will last the rest of my life! What more could I ask for! I love you all, Please stay safe this week! 

Elder Fyffe

I did a few more drawings for the members here, took a picture of a flower, and then had our pictures taken by a youth who swiped my camera! Sorry the letter wasn't long!

 

 

08/12/2013

            Well here we are, another week has come and gone, in 6 days that makes 9 months out on my mission! Wooh! It actually kinda sucks though, because I really love my mission and the area that I am serving in right now, the people here are so kind and inviting and they have definitely become my second family! It’s actually really phuni, this past week; the mission installed two new computers here in the church. For the first time the church leaders have to do all of their churchy stuff electronically.... They don’t know how to work the programs really... So the bishop here has kinda called me to be the Tech support for the next few weeks! It’s crazy; I don’t even know if I’m allowed to be doing some of the stuff I do haha. Anyway, they are all astonished by the computers and how much easier it is to turn in all of their paperwork to church headquarters. It makes me laugh sometimes when I think that I’ve somehow been called as tech support for the second time on my mission, I never imagined that, that would be a part of my calling as a missionary!

            Also, this week has been really good; we’ve been working a lot with the members in order to find new investigators. We’ve been having some success! Even though it’s not much, I’m proud to say that we have some good quality investigators. For me it’s much more important to have quality rather than quantity. I don’t want to baptize "inactive" members, but people who will trust in the lord and his teachings for the rest of their lives! I’m pretty sure that I am going to be called as the new zone leader here pretty soon; the old zone leaders gave me a heads up. That means that the work load will only be getting bigger, which means that the Lord really is watching over me and knows I need to pay more attention on his work rather than the problems in my "world." I’ve really been gaining a testimony on that lately, that he really does know me individually, my thoughts, feeling and concerns. He knows exactly what I need in order to mend my heart perfectly every time! I love him so much, and am more than happy to give him two years of my life!

            As for the pictures this week, the first is of a watercolor that I did for a granny here, it made her really happy that I gave it to her without really having a reason, she smiled which made me smile, which made the work I put into it worth it! The second Picture is for my Ma, because she asks that I take pictures of the flowers here for her! Its ridiculous how many species of flowers there are here, I find a new one every day! That’s about it for this week, the church is true, Jesus is the Christ and Joseph is the Smith! I love you all so much, stay safe this week!

 

Elder Fyffe

 

08/05/2013

            Well thank you much for the update for this week! I honestly feel like the earth is spinning a little faster than usual, one week seems more like 3 days right now. But this week went by pretty dang well! I saved a few lives, spiritually and physically! I shall explain... this week we fixed a lesson with a less active family, the parents and 1 child are active in the church, yet three of their sons are heavily into the things of this world. I can easily see how well Satan does his work in destroying families, at times it is extremely discouraging how weak and vulnerable we can become, and how fast Satan is there to take advantage of our weakness. Anyway, as we entered into their house is said the usual "how’s it going," stuff like that, and the Father of the family said "not good at all," and then kind of stormed off and sat down in the living room. Obviously something was up so I asked him to explain to us what was bothering him. He explained that his family’s objective is to be sealed in the temple this December, but their children are doing everything but preparing themselves spiritually.

            So my companion turned the time over to me and I was prompted to talk about the plan of salvation and our divine objective to live eternally with our Heavenly Father. I explained how lucky we are being members of the only true church, and how the saving ordinances we have can only be done with the proper authority. I explained that Satan will do all he can to destroy your family, and I told them up front that it’s working, but it’s never too late to ask for help. I then asked the kids to share their testimonies with their father, yet we came to find out that they don’t have one. To finish my lesson, I bore testimony of eternal families, and the importance of a testimony in conversion, of course while talking about eternal families I got teary eyed, but I know they understood and felt how important it was, and how they could be throwing away the biggest blessing they could get in this life, which is an eternal family!

            At the end, the father bore testimony and said that he was sorry for being angry at his children and sorry that he lost his cool. He said that the message I shared softened his heart immensely, then he said something that surprised my companion and I, he said that if we hadn’t have come, and If we hadn’t shared that exact message with him, he would have burnt his house down that night, just to get his message across to his children... Crazy the thoughts that Satan puts into our minds when were weak, or overwhelmed! Burning a house down won’t change anybody’s mind, yet Satan makes us think that it’s the only way. That was definitely one of the biggest experiences of my mission thus far! God is really letting me know that I am exactly where I need to be at the exact time.

            I love My Heavenly father, and I am so honored to be giving all of my time for him and his son for these two years! There is no other place I would rather be! I love you all and hope that you are keeping safe! 

Elder Fyffe
As for the photos, just a few of the sunsets that we were blessed with this week, also a branch meeting that we assisted, those are all of the leaders here.

 

 

 

07/29/2013

            Ya, I pretty much feel the same way, this week has gone by way too fast, but If I think about it, we really did get a lot done. Had about 20 lessons, this week, which is pretty high considering there are only 4 people living on this island it seems! We also got 3 new investigators this week; hopefully we will engage all three to baptism this coming week too! That will make a total of about 10 baptisms so far on my mission, 2 already in the ocean! Such a huge temptation every time I walk into the ocean with an investigator, I always have the urge to "accidentally" fall in and swim back to shore haha!

            I’ve been Learning a lot lately with an investigator that we just got, who has some pretty strange ideas of how God works, he thinks at times that he knows more than God. There are times in the lessons when he stops people who pass by his house and tells them which kingdom of glory they will go to. It freaks me out at times... But then there are the times that he poses good questions that make me think, and through the research that I do, my testimony grows and I gain a stronger understanding of the amazing plan that God has created for us! This week my companion and I have decided to strengthen the members here. I remember in Alpine how much my ward really was just a big family. We really need something like that here! That will help us enormously with the work. Pray for us so that we may accomplish our goal si vous plait!!

            I feel so out of the loop right now too, usually I’m home watching fireworks and making all sorts of dangerous explosives with my cousin Austin. I haven’t seen a single firework this year! The only thing I’ve seen that is close, is when someone throws a rock at a dog and it yelps when it gets hit. Pretty much the same idea haha. When I was in the MTC for Christmas, I didn’t really miss the whole family get together thing, yet right now, I’m starting to miss all the family traditions! 9 months out already the 14th of next month, I’m not liking how fast things are going! Thank you all for the support, I know I wouldn’t be having too much phun out here if it wasn’t for all your prayers and letters! Stay safe this week! I love you all!

            As for the pictures, they are specifically for the upcoming missionary named Austin Fyffe! This week I ate pasta for dinner and I instantly thought of Austin and all the times we gorged down pasta and cheese until we wanted to throw up. Then it’s a picture of me and my very first and favorite missionary companion Elder Fyffe. I think that was taken the night before I left, hopefully we can recreate this picture after our missions to see how much we’ve changed! Anyway, I love you Austin and I am so proud and excited for you to serve a mission!

 

Elder Fyffe

 

07/22/2013

07/22/2013 

            This Week has been pretty good, It passed way too fast, that could mean two things, We didn’t do much...or we did so much that we never really noticed the time. I hope for the latter! The work is hard here, we are told this every week by our Church leaders, they tell us that we do a great job and to not be discouraged. It helps me a lot when I let the natural man out Inside of me sometimes and let myself get discouraged! I see why the natural man is an enemy to God, he doubts too much, is too negative, rarely smiles, judges too easily, is too easily persuaded and so on and so forth. He's definitely an enemy of mine and I pray often for forgiveness and strength in order to get rid of this side of me! God in his endless love and Mercy always lifts my spirits though personal revelation in the scriptures and the comfort I feel when I pray to him. I Love this plan that he prepared for us, along with our free agency.

            Happiness is always on the other side of sadness. It stinks that there are times when we make the wrong choice and have to go through sadness in order to realize the mistake we made and then choose to make the right choice in order to be happy. There are still a lot of things in this life that I don’t fully understand, like, why did God make mosquitos?! No idea, but He’s perfect, so I wont question his creations. Being the weak beings that we are, there are times when we question the many plans of our Heavenly father. I for one do not see this as something bad, it’s an occasion for us to search diligently for the answer through prayer, fasting and the scriptures. God will help us find the answers with the help of his Holy Spirit and eventually we will find the answer, and if it needs be, repent for doubting or questioning Our Father’s perfect Plan. Of course I speak only for myself, based off of the experiences I’ve had thus far, I’ve learned so much about God’s perfect plan, through the many trials and mistakes I’ve made and lived through.

            I love this gospel and the ability that we all have to find and have a true conversion within ourselves through the many experiences in our life that we choose to live through. I hope that you are all choosing to stay safe spiritually and physically! I love you all so much! 

            As for the pictures, Just a doodle, a puppy that we found sleeping halfway Under a gate because his tushy was cold and Elder Tumarae being interviewed by an investigator named Ernest! 

Elder Fyffe