Another Week!

Well another week has gone by and the winter seems to actually be starting. Apparently it has been fairly mild, their winters will actually rain around 3-5 days and then it backs off for a day or two and then starts raining again. The clouds are just big-as, and you can watch them race through the sky. Also I have only seen the sun two or three times for more than an hour in the past week. A bit strange, and the rain only seems to come down when we start walking around. Odd, how that always seems to work out.

So the big things from this past week that happened was that drunk people make me sad, goats have a problem with me, and baby hedgehogs are incredibly cute.

Also we were able to talk with a few potential investigators. 

1. Little John: friendly man who is currently broke, down on his luck and believes himself to be a prophet; or at least he did I'm not exactly positive what he thinks now. Was kinda interested in what we were saying but wants to find God on his own, so we will see how all of that plays out.

2. Tui: has had missionaries talk to her, but felt like she was being pushed towards baptism and just was not ready for it. Hopefully we can rekindle her interest and help her realize that this time she is ready for baptism, although her partner may be in the way of any teachings. . . . so we will still see.

3. Ed: less-active member but seemed like he wanted to start coming back to church, but he may be having a slight detour in jail for an indeterminate amount of time.

Also a ridiculously drunk man started free-styling to us about God and what he thinks, it wasn't the best free-style it really could have been much better, also there were a few too dozen cuss words to make a good free-style.

Now that that stuff is all taken care of, I guess I should share a spiritual thought or message. Well this past Sunday we had a fast for the rescue of my district/zone's dropped sets(baptisms) as well as for miracles in the area. And that all comes down to our faith in the Lord and the trust that he places in us to do all that we can and then the witness of our faith, or miracles, will be done. We know that the Lord can do all things according to our faith, the question is whether or not I have that faith and am willing to express it. Put that faith on the line and say "My God, I have done my all and have fallen short, I am sorry that I have fallen short but now I need thee to do what I could not. Save these people Lord, they need this and are ready for it, they just need thee". Or perhaps something similar to that.

Love you all heaps!!!

Kia Ngawari,

Kia Kaha,

Arohamui,

            Elder Long