Malo soifua!!!
Today on the Elder Hill Show:
- We had a couple super awesome lessons with Cindy, and now she REALLY wants to get baptized!
- We had a LOT of stake conference this weekend
- For District P-Day today we went to Roosevelt Island, so that was pretty neat
- Polynesians REALLY like Kolipoki
So
we've had a couple of lessons with Cindy this week, and they've all
gone incredibly well. She had a spiritual confirmation that baptism is
right for her, and she is SUPER excited to get baptized. We began
teaching her about the commandments that we are to follow as members of
Christ's church and she would just say, "I'm with it!" She instantly
agreed to change her habits to follow the Word of Wisdom, and after only
a couple of days she made awesome progress! In our lesson on Saturday, a
member of our ward, Brother Poon (a 25-ish-year convert himself), bore
powerful testimony of the importance and blessings of the Word of Wisdom
and the Law of Tithing. Cindy loved it. She acknowledged the challenges
that will be there, but she also knows and voiced her desire and
willingness to make the change and be baptized. I'm just so happy for
her, and I'm excited to keep working with her!!
This
weekend was Stake Conference for both of the Stakes that we're in.
Elder Hamilton and weren't able to watch either of the Saturday evening
meetings, but we did get to watch both the meeting for Manhattan Stake
as well as in the New York YSA Stake. In the NYYSA Stake meeting, we
were surprised and pleased to hear from Elder and Sister Sikahema (He
played BYU football back in the day, and was sustained as a general
authority seventy this past general conference). It was a really cool
experience, and he shared wonderful insights.
Today
was District P-Day, and we got to visit Roosevelt Island. We saw a
couple cool things, and we rode a sky tram to the island (cable car, or
whatever you want to call it). We walked around and saw some cool stuff
on the river, both on the Manhattan side and the Queens side. While we
were walking around, we randomly stumbled across a dance group
practicing some dance for some thing. We watched for a couple minutes
before getting bored and wandering off to play Spikeball. After a couple
hours, we hopped back across to Manhattan and hit up a Japanese Market
called Muji. It was a pretty cool place, but nothing really caught my
eye, so we ended up leaving emptyhanded.
Mafaufauga
faʻaleagaga: kind of a random thought, but I appreciated it. In Elder
Sikahema's talk, he gave a shout-out to Sister Teuscher as the daughter
of John H. Groberg, or "Kolipoki" (the guy from the "Other Side of
Heaven" movies). He talked about how much the Tongan people love
Kolipoki, and the whole Groberg family. Elder Sikahema told a story of
when he was first sustained as an area authority. He was visiting some
friends, and someone asked, "Are you the first Tongan to be a church
authority?" Before Elder Sikahema could respond, another Tongan man
said, "No, he's the second. Kolipoki is the first." As he told this
story, he shed a couple of tears, and the Spirit touched all of our
hearts. Elder Sikahema talked about the pure love that comes from
bringing the gospel into people's lives, and the power and long lasting
effect of that love. What that means for you, I honestly don't know. I
just thought I'd share it.
Guys God is good. Always has been, and always will be. That's really all that needs to be said, so I'll just leave that there.
Alofa tele lava atu ia outou,
Elder Hill
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Photos:
- Random shot from the set of Saturday Science Guys
- Some Photoshop fun
- Random bunny on a subway (not my pic)
- Screenshot of Elder and Sister Sikahema
- Lots of pics from Roosevelt Island (including an old smallpox hospital, a giant head of FDR, some pretty blossoms, and lots of cool shots on the waterfront).
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