sister sydney.: March 2014

March 2, 2014

"the weekly report."

not gonna lie.... feeling lazy to report on my week, so i apologize in advanced if this turns out to be a shorter email. :)

monday for p day we cleaned and took a nap. :) that was really nice.

tuesday we had zone conference. that was great. very well fed... spiritually and physically. :D

wednesday we taught dorothy the plan of salvation.... and SET her for baptism on march 8! (too bad she instantly got dodgey and we haven't seen or heard from her since.... so she is no longer set for the 8th sad.) also had chinese takeout for fafaga with sister aumua, and it was a lovely change from taro. :)

thrusday we had a lesson with brother pio (sophia's dad) and sophia and our investigator, Lui. the lesson started well, but Lui didn't let us get very far because he started asking quesitons, then he and bro pio got busy talking.... we will work on his focus haha. also we fasted thursday with all the ward auxiliaries for missionary work to progress in the ward, and MAN that was a tough fast! I think that was the WEAKEST i've felt from fasting.... standing took too much efffort. i was grateful for food by the time we broke it at 8pm.

friday, our appointments fell thru and we dropped some of our new investigators....

saturday we walked and walked and walked....... not much luck. hopefully it gets better this week!
sunday was sunday. i bore my testimony on courage yesterday. i still get nervous speaking samoan to the whole ward.... this week i'm working on confidence, and being more bold in all that i do.

thats all for the week! i think! miss and love you all heaps! hug each other for me okay!? enjoy your week and i'll chat with yous in a week.

love,
sista camilletti

sunrise the other morning. man it was a beauty. seeing this, i KNOW God lives.

me and sista H with da sheep.

i am the good shepherd...

and other sheep i have which are not of this fold (insert lightning.)

blurry... but my new scriptures FINALLY CAME! i've only been waiting for 2 months now.

dorothy is a crack up! hopefully we get things worked out for her baptism. she is great. :)

sitting on a bench.

February 23, 2014

"Five Months, this week! WHAT?"

Hey howdy, hey everyone! O a mai lo outou vaiaso?

Not tooooo much happened this week. We are still in Finding Mode, which is both difficult and goes by slowly. To be honest, knocking on doors is NO FUN! So i hope all of you are doing all that you can to find friends who are ready to hear the gospel, and sharing them with the missionaries in your homes! that is the best way to bring others to christ. :) the days went by slow, but the weeks always go by fast. so here we are again on a lovely monday.

highlights of the week... (all of which happened at the end of the week)

THURSDAY we had Mission Conference and all the missionaries of the NZAM got to meet and shake Elder Neil L. Anderson of the TWELVE and Elder Kevin W. Pearson of the Seventy! THAT, was awesome. Right when elder Anderson got to the chapel, we lined up and shook his hand, and looked him in the eye! 1. he is the nicest guy. 2. he walks in the room and you KNOW he is a true apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ. 3. it was really great to see that even apostles are normal people, who know how to have a good time/joke around. learned heaps. but my main take aways were as follows: you life needs a vision. you need to see where you are, where you want to go, and how you are going to get there. we serve missions, to of course bring more of our Heavenly Father's precious souls back to him, but also to solidify the members of the church (aka- to deepen the missionary's conversion, so we don't waver after the mission.) the lord needs eternally faithful members, and that is something the mission can help with. teach doctrine of the gospel, and know there are ETERNAL TRUTHS such as God LIves, Jesus is the Christ, and our Lives are and will be Eternal. GREAT DAY!

FRIDAY was the horrific day of our FAFAGA (dinner with members). let me explain.... we went to our fafaga like we do every day we have fafaga.... we sit down, and start eating. this family made delicious food that we ate, but there wasnt anything to drink. i look up 1/2 way thru dinner and the wife is making this strange drink. 1. fruit cocktail (i've NEVER LIKED THIS my whole life, and now she was putting it in with my drink??) 2. the juice 3. milk 4. HEAPS of sugar 5. .... peanuts??? she placed it in front of us and i knew i had to drink/eat this concoction... so naturally as a missionary, i said a mini prayer, then drank all the liquid, which had a strange texture itself, then at the peanuts (???), then had to eat the fruit cocktail stuff..... with faith all things are possible people! i finished the drink and didnt gag! so we were stuffed, thought we were about to leave because we had our investigator's baptism interview to get to. when the knock-from-death knocks on the door.... the neighbor brings over AS MUCH FOOD AS THE LADY HAD MADE as well as banana bread cake and... you guessed it MORE NASTY FRUIT COCKTAIL DRINK. sis H & sophia's eyes got big when sis. peseta said, WAIT dont leave yet, have some more drink and cake! (crap.) we thought she'd just give it to us for the road, but NO. we had to eat it on the couch. I could not do it. i had about half of the banana bread cake, but could not do the drink. i thought all i had just eaten was going to come right back out if i put one more thing in my stomach. so we awkwardly just said thank you very much and set the plates down to hug and shake hands, went out the door, TRIED running to our car because we were very late by then, but couldn't do it. (you may need to roll me off the plane in a year or so.) needless to say we didn't eat for a long time.

SATURDAY was Val's baptism! All things went according to plan. :) she said the water was really hot though... i quote, "I was just baptized by fire water!" the spirit was really strong there, and she was all smiles. :D also while door knocking we met a man from the middle east, who raises these birds. sorry idk what they are called, but we got to hold them! not every day you do that! :) dont mind my double chin in the pic. :)) AND. saturday morning our district got to help the stake with a helping hands service project at Roay Oak Intermediate (aka middle school) we took heaps of rubbish, mulch, and other things away, mostly just clean up, but lots of fun to get dirty hands. :)

sunday was the typical slow day, and i'm just happy we got thru it. cool thing: sophia, sis H and i all wore pula tasis, see the pic below. :) today is monday and i'm ready for a new week.

thats all for this week! love you all so much! :) enjoy your week! :) give all the boys hugs from me :)