Triple Double, Baby......Almost

Malo Soifua!!!

Today on the Elder Hill Show:

 ** Our goal this week was to hit a triple double, and we.....kinda got it

 ** snowwwww

 ** Our friend Rodrigo is a baller 🔥💸🏀

So this week we set a goal to get a "triple double" (at least ten friends with a baptismal date, at least ten friends at church, and at least ten new friends being taught), which is really hard to do, but we were confident. By the end of Saturday, everything was in place and we were excited to meet all the goals by Sunday night (we'd found a bunch of people, so we just needed to put a couple more on baptismal date and have everyone come to church). Sunday morning, we called and texted all the people who said they'd come (more than 20), but they all either cancelled or didn't answer at all. Elder Kim then called even more people to try inviting them to church last minute, but still no dice. After 39 phone calls made, we just hoped and prayed for a miracle.

Our final church tally was a whopping four people. Of 20+ that said they'd come (including people who said they'd being family we didn't account for), only four showed up. It was kinda rough, not gonna lie.

The tender mercy and miracle was that three of those four were people that are SUPER FIRE. Two of them are Indira and Patrick, a married couple that have kids in Florida who are members of the church, they just never got baptized themselves. Indira is ready to be baptized as soon as Patrick is ready, and he's reading and praying about the BoM now! Please pray for him to gain an extra witness that this step is the right one for him to take for himself and for his family.

The third person that came to church is our friend Rodrigo, who is GETTING BAPTIZED NEXT SUNDAY!!! He overcame a pretty formidable Word of Wisdom roadblock, and he is ready and exciting to be baptized and receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost. It's going to be amazing.

In other, very tangential, news, it finally snowed here in NYC! We woke up one morning to see a couple inches of snow on the ground! It was kind of exciting but it wasn't much, and it's almost entirely gone now. Elder Kim is hoping it'll snow again soon, and I'm just praying it won't haha (one NYC winter is enough for me haha). We'll just have to wait and see what happens in the next few weeks.

Mafaufauga faaleagaga: Read or listen to "Wrestling with Comparisons" (a BYU devo by JB Haws), "Notwithstanding My Imperfections" (a conference talk by Neal A Maxwell), and "To the Young Women" (a conference talk by Jeffrey R Holland). All three have inspired me and helped me this week, and all three are worth careful study. You're welcome 😂

Alofa tele lava atu ia outou uma,

Elder Hill

Ata:

• Literally a mask vending machine 😑🤦🏼‍♂️
• First snowfall in NYC!! Got this street pic from our apartment window
• This street sign is giving me mixed signals...
• Our friend Rodrigo and his cat in the snow (he just sends us quality pics like this haha)
• Elder Kim got ice cream for the district, so we celebrated after district council
• Nametag in the snow
• Elder Kim & me in the snow