Malo Soifua!!!
Today on the Elder Hill Show:
** Visiting members is the best
** The MTC gang (kinda) came back together
** Exchanges are always fun
** Everly is a Spartan legend
** "Hurricane Henri" (not gonna lie, kind of a letdown)
This
week Elder Lee and I started knocking members' houses and visiting
briefly with them (introduce ourselves, see how they're doing, ask if we
can do anything to help). It's actually been pretty awesome because
members here are great AND a couple of them have told us about family or
friends that would benefit from hearing about the gospel! We'll see if
any of those are able to pan out of progress further.
I
joined a Samoan Group Call the other day, and was overjoyed when Elder
Kauer and Elder Wilson, two good friends from the MTC, joined the zoom.
The three of us had a great time reminiscing and swapping stories.
(Kalofae to our teacher because she wasn't ready for us haha).
I
forgot to talk about Everly in previous emails, but she's a baller.
She's the 12 year old daughter of a less active member in the ward. Her
mom came up to Elder Steele the Sunday before transfers and told him
that Everly wants to be baptized. Right when Elder Lee and I got here,
we met with her and talked about it. We set a date for Aug 29th, and
we've been flying through the lessons. Everly is so awesome, and she has
crushed everything we've thrown at her. He passed her baptismal
interview yesterday, so she is all set for her baptism this Sunday! I'm
so excited for her. If you all could keep Everly in your prayers during
this week, I would be very grateful!
So
"Hurricane" Henri (pronounced like "awn-ry" I think?) was supposed to
hit this weekend. We had been hearing more and more about it as the week
progressed, but nothing concrete about what she should do. On Saturday,
we got a call that we were being evacuated from Bridgeport to Stamford
to live with the Elders there until Monday morning or so. We packed some
things, suffered through traffic as everyone was leaving the area, and
we got to the house where the Elders lived. There were already four
Elders living in that apartment, so now we have a whopping total of six
on one big apartment haha.
All church meetings in
Connecticut were cancelled, and we weren't allowed to leave our
apartment, so we didn't have much to do beyond Facebook work and the
like. The weather, on the other hand, didn't do much either that would
bespeak a hurricane or tropical storm. It rain a decent bit on Saturday
and Sunday, but never very hard, and never with strong winds. (The
"strongest" wind/rain we saw was this morning lol). We were given the
all clear on Sunday night that we can return to our area, so we'll pack
up and head back today. All in all not very exciting, but I'm not
complaining too much about that (also chilling in a six-pack of Elders
was kind of fun 😂).
Mafaufauga
faaleagaga: One of my all-time favorite BYU Devotionals is "Why Do We
Believe in Christ" by Brad Wilcox. I was studying it yesterday, and I
just love how firm and strong he is in testifying of Christ. A previous
talk I listened to talked about how we can't survive in life on someone
else's testimony. We have to have our own. Y'all need to go right now to
speeches.byu.edu and look up that talk by Brad Wilcox!!
Alofa tele lava atu ia outou,
Elder Hill
Ata:
- Deep clean of the apartment (lots of junk, chee hoo)
- Nasty beehive on some house's utility meter
- Elder Kauer and Wilson (friends mai le MTC)
- Mass exodus of cars out of Bridgeport and Fairfield
- Six Elders living it up for two days together haha
- Pretty accurate meme of Hurricane Henri
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