Trees vs. Shrubs

Malo Soifua!!!

Today on the Elder Hill Show:

 ** Lots and lots of knocking

 ** Exchanges bring flipping miracles

Lots of pictures and not a lot of words this week (you're welcome, Chago 😂)

We have been doing a lot of knocking, and it's been a lot of fun. We've met a lot of very different people from super open to super antagonistic or just straight up anti (that was a rough conversation, ngl). We've seen a lot of miracles through it, and I'm looking forward to continuing the grind. An issue that Elder Lee and I are running into now that we've been here a while is that we're running out of places to knock haha. We still have tons of streets left, but they're getting fewer and harder to find. We began mapping out the streets that we've finished so that we'll know where to go next. Our area is not super big geographically, and a lot of the houses are spread out in certain areas, so it's been a fun puzzle trying to figure that out.

Friday into Saturday was our exchanges with the Wilton Elders again. I went with Elder Christensen into his area, and we had an absolute blast. He and his comp Elder Ko had found a street in their area that was super promising, so we knocked the rest of that they hadn't been able to get to before. It was a lot of walking up and down hills haha, but it was great, and we found two people to teach just while knocking! They were super cool, and we made plans to come back some other time and talk with them again. We were going to have two other people found from that street, but they declined giving us contact info or return appointments, which was disappointing, but hopefully they can get back in contact sometime soon.

Meanwhile back in my own area, Elder Lee and Elder Ko were busy finding three people of their own! We've had some great lessons with those people since then, and I'm excited to work with them. For one exchange, we found a total of five people for two areas, which I would call a smashing success. Miracles are to be found on exchanges in CT, folks.

Mafaufauga faaleagaga: There's a fire BYU devo called "Stand Forever" (can't remember who it's by, but it's the second most viewed devo on their site). He talks about resolving concerns and having faith to find answers to hard questions. He centers his remarks on the "primary questions". If these questions are true, you can either ignore or confidently find an answer to the "secondary questions". The primary questions include these four:

 - Is God our living Heavenly Father?

 - Is Jesus Christ the Son of God and the Savior of all mankind?

 - Is Joseph Smith a true prophet of God?

 - Is the Book of Mormon the word of God?

If you have a testimony of the truth of those four things, very little will be able to sway you. Any other question fits into the secondary category, and they are all off-shoots of these four primary questions (there are probably also some other primary questions out there that I don't know off the top of my head lol).

Always remember, if any of you ever have any questions or want to talk about anything at all, please let me know. I would love to talk with you.

Alofa tele lava atu ia outou uma,

Elder Hill

Ata (photo dump time):

• Doing service is the best 
• GIANT squash we found at service [Ed. note:  cucuzza squash, pronounced kookootsa; an Italian squash used like zucchini]
• Pretty fall colors
• Really good drawing of me 😂
• Pretty leaves and water in Wilton
• Elder Christensen and me
• Squirrel
• Puppies