Dunge Feva

Dear Family!!!

Man time is flying by, it bin seem like just yesterday that I was emailing you all. It sounds like all of you had another busy but great week!  Tell Benny I am proud of him for the Spelling Bee! That is awesome!  As for all the relative news wow...everyone is having a baby and getting married!! Tell everyone congratulations for me!! You no worry mom, when I get home I will go back to being the boss and doing all the grocery shopping!!

This week has been pretty..different!! haha. This week one of my companions went back to the house.  She is from here and so she just took a small bus ride back to the house! haha.  It is crazy to see people go back to the house! But at the beginning of the week we went to a family house night in our area.  Like I said before water is full up in our area and so mosquitos are all over!! My companion got bit by a mosquito and the next day she came down with Dunge Feva.  Man it is bad bad bad.  Every night she cries from night until morning and there is absolutely nothing that anyone can do for her.  It is a viral disease and they call it "broken bones disease" from se it is very pain.  She had a fever for 5 days and she would just sweat and sweat.  Ontop of that she has 4 boils that are pain too.  Needless to say she is in pain too much.  It is kinda not usual for a Native to get the disease, but I guess there is a first for everything.  She can't walk about so we have just been in the house for most of week.

But every week in the mission field brings miracles regardless of all setbacks:  Our first miracle this week was with two of our investigators Claudia and Sussan.  Missionaries have been teaching them for over a year and for that whole time their Abu has told them that they are not allowed to get baptize.  My companion and I have been fasting and praying for the heart of their Abu to soften.  On Monday we asked them to ask her back again and she said yes! Now those two will have their interview on Saturday! Every something works out in the Lord's timing!! Our second miracle this week was with one papa in our area.  He is not a member, but his son and daughter are.  His son just went to Samoa to go to an LDS school and so his heart has been really softened by all of the help and opportunities the church has provided for his son.  I decided that now is a good time to see if he is interested in hearing more about the church.  This week we went and visited him and just talked with him and bin invite to church. But after that day my companion fell sick so we weren't able to go back.  I was shocked when I went to church on Sunday and he was there.  He cried as he sat in Sacrament meeting and heard all the talks. After the meeting I went and talked with him and he said, "Sista, see you at the house on Wednesday" haha. Talk about a miracle!! :) I could not be more glad!

We heard transfers on Saturday and I will be training back again in my same area!!  I have no idea where my companion is from, but I am excited for a new adventure with a new companion!

oh yeah, HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!!!! :) :) :) Lavem yufala big wan!!! :) :)

Yolkokakaeek,

Sista Braon

Super Bowl

Hello all Family! 

It is Super Bowl Monday here in Vanuatu, and all the Elders from the states are dying here!! haha.  Everyone has been emailing family back home to know all of the scores.  Oh boy, I remember all the cooking stations from last year, I hope that Liz took over and made all of them back again this year! Don't worry when I come back I will boss again! ;) Wow, does Lizzy ever take a break?? She is looking so grown up it is freaky! Her costume was so cute, and I am sure that she did great.  She definitely got most of the talent in the family! Those pictures of Meg Sar and Liz are soo cute!! I didn't know that Meg cut her hair! It is so cute!! I will say that I miss all of the girls outings, but I don't missing the shopping yet-haha.  I remember chaperoning last year...oh man what a treat! You are brave to do that back again! I did not know that Liz was doing harp still! Good! Tell her and Ben to keep playing the piano too!! It is good to know! But you forgot to include an update about what you have been doing! How is having meg and quinn living with you all?? Do Sarah and Jordan have any human children yet, or Milo no more? I cannot believe that it is already Feb! Time flies by fast! 

This week has been amazing!!!  Last week I was trying to map out a mission plan for our branch.  I used about a half notebook trying to draft different plans of how to make missionary work come on top in our branch and area.  On Monday last week I finally got the final product and this week put it into effect! This week I learned that Papa God helps those who are willing to help themselves.  In life we will face full up trials and hard times, but if we want the help of Him we must first seek to help ourselves.  That means that we have to be willing to sacrifice our prayers, fasts, time, energy, talents, everything for our goal.  If we are willing to sacrifice everything we have for our goal he will help us.  It reminds me of a scripture in the Doctrine and Covenants that tells us that we must first study things out in our minds.  After we study it out in our minds He will guide us as to what we need to do.  When we are faced with a challenge or trial we can either sit back and cry and about it and feel sorry for ourselves or we can stand up, tighten our sandals and push through.  

Like I said our area is a place of water and soft mud.  This week when we went to area there was a house that was filled with water.  Every something was soaked and there was about a foot of water inside.  We had come to the area for a few appointments, but after I saw the damage that had been done to all the house, I told Papa to hand each of us a bucket and we began filling up buckets, carrying them over to the "swimming pool" and dumping them.  Let me tell you something..this was no easy task.  The ground at the place was sooo slickery! I knew it was slickery and so I made sure to walk slow and plant my feet well.  Every time my companion would walk I would remind her to walk good.  It was the second to last batch of buckets and my companion about fell.  I was carrying a bucket on my shoulder and I turned to yell at her to be careful.  Next minute I was on the ground covered in soft mud and soaked with the water I had been bailing.  hahahaha I think that was Papa God telling me to stop bossing my companion....oops.  After we finished we were able to stori with a less active family.  We talked to them about the plan of salvation and how even though loved ones of ours pass, we will see them again.  We went back to the house because it got dark, when we came back the next day they gave us 6 referrals of people to teach, and a family.  The blessings of serving others are full up! Teaching in our area is great! We have 12 people including one family on date for baptism and I could not be more excited!! This week we have been able to see a lot of our investigators start to make big changes in the conversion of them.  It has been a great week!!! :) 

I hope that all of you have a great week!! I love and miss you all!!! :) :) 

Yolkokakaeek,

Sista Braon

P.S.  I am now a believer of those oils...my poor companion did not sleep the first two weeks she was here and she kept waking me up because of nightmares.  Now every night at 9 I come and brush her neck with 2 drops of lavender oil and she is out within 26 minutes (yes I do time it... :)) I am a believer!! :) haha

Swimming In The Streets

Ehhh!!! You no wore tumas Mama! hahaha.  Sorry big wan that I have not been replying very well these last few weeks!! Things have been really busy here and we barely have any time on p days to make emails. Thank you too much for all of the pictures!! Man, every one is growing up way to fast! I feel sooo old!!! Please tell everyone thank you too much for all of the Christmas cards I just got them and they are wonderful!  It is so good to see everyone(well pictures).  I love those Ice Castles!! They are freaky small because if one broke on your head you would definietly be dead...just something to think about next time! ;) haha.  It sounds like every one is doing well.  Oh my..those pictures about that tiny mouse.. hahahahaha I bin show my companions and they were laughing of dead that you were freaking out about a mouse that could fit into a small cup! hahaha.  I will try to catch a picture of the rats for you! They are so fat I am pretty sure one could eat Bella!

Things here are looking up!! I have been able to walk, and the rash is getting a lot better!! It is only on my face now... great place to choose to stay huh? No, but the rash just looks like...a redish burn thing...but I am taking all my medicines and my native companions have been putting all sorts of leaves on it and it is getting so much better!! So yes I did get transferred to Vila. I was sad to leave all my family in Tanna, but I will go back! Right now I am serving in an area called Ohlen with Namburu.  It is a HUGE area! And I am white washing it, and training a new sister! This means that I had no idea who any one was in the area when I first got here! Zero! I still barely know the roads, but I have become the queen of asking for directions.  Every day I pass these Papas that are selling goods and every day I would ask them which way I needed to go, and they are so sick of it so now every time they see "Marazel" (white man in their language) they just point their fingers to which way I need to go. It is like one personal navigation system for me! Who needs Siri? haha.  So yes, right now I am in a threesome.  Both of my companions are from Vanuatu, one from Vila and the other one from Tanna.  The one I am training is from Tanna, so we are able to talk the language that I learned in Tanna.  She is great, she does not know any English and she did not go to school before.  My Mission President has asked me to teach her English so that after her mission she can go to school.  So every day I teach her English for an hour!  She has been catching on pretty well, and so now we can have small conversations in English! I have been learning a lot of patience, maybe when I come home I will be able to help Liz with homework without throwing pencils! ;)

Yeah that cyclone...oh my...we have gotten red skies and RAIN that I could not even believe.  Our area is all soft mud so when it rains it all just gathers.  All the kids bin just swimming in the roads... literally.  We went to go and teach and one little boy jumped off the mango tree and just swam in the middle of the road.  I will try to send some pictures.  But needless to say I survived my first bad tropical storm!! :) No crying included!!

I am out of time, But I love you all and I hope you have a great week!! :) :)

Yolkokakaeek!!!! :) 

*editors note:  I edited a little to help with the reading flow.  Some I just couldn't figure out and left, and others I thought were endearing and left as written.

Count Your Blessings And Your Feet

Famle!

It looks as all of you have had a great new year! New year is a great time to of rededicate yourself and re evaluate what you want to make of this new year that you have been blessed with.  New Year is a big holiday here and it was interesting to spend it in the city! That's right..manbush Sista Brown has been transferred! I realized this past week that I have completely forgotten how to live in city life. This past week has been absolutely crazy!  

Last Friday my companion and I were making a treat for our neighbors  (we were still in White Sands). To make the treat, you boil sugar with coconut milk, to make a caramel like substance. After, you put it over breadfruit.  Okay, so you know how impatient I am; I had been stirring for 45 minutes and I was so sick of it,  my companion went outside and so I decided to try to test the caramel to see if it was poison of course ;) haha. Well I had been stirring with a long piece of bamboo, so when I tried to test the caramel a big drop of it fell onto my foot.  It burned like crazy at first and so I tried to wipe it off.  It was sticky so I did not able to get all of it off.  After we finished making the treat, I cleaned out my burn and everything looked completely normal.  I put a plaster on it and let it go. The next two days it was fine. On Sunday, I felt that my foot was very very sore to walk on.  I noticed that my foot started changing to a ripe pink color and that's when I knew something was wrong.  I didn't want it to ruin our plans to proselyte,  so I just limped around Sunday and Monday.  Tuesday we flew out to Vila for our transfer and I noticed my entire leg was swollen.  It was painful to even bend my knee.  On Tuesday night, when we got back to our place, I took off the plaster and it smelt like something had died in my foot.  I saw that now I did not have a burn in my foot, but one bigfala infection.  The next morning I decided I needed to go to the mission office to try to find an antibiotic.  When I went into the mission office and President saw my foot he handed me a phone to ring the mission nurse. I rang the mission nurse and she told me that nothing was open because of New Year, but that she would get an appointment for the next day (Thursday).  

Thursday we caught a bus to the mission office and went to the France doctor. When the doctor took one look at my foot he said, "Sister, you know you are extremely lucky that you are here and not on Tanna.  If you were on Tanna and you got this infection you would not have a foot anymore. They would just take off your foot.  Count your blessings."  When he said that my thoughts quickly changed from "I am in so much pain" to "Thank you Heavenly Father."  He took off the plasters and explained that he was going to have to cut the green flesh out of the infection or we were going to have a big problem.  The greenish flesh was about 2 inches long.  My entire leg was so sore to touch that when he said he was going to have to cut I about cried.  He told me to lie down and he got a little scaple thing out and started to scrape and cut out some of the infection on the edges.  I tried so hard not to cry. I tried to look away and sing to make me forget about what he was doing, but that was not working.  When he first started cutting, I grabbed my foot back and said, "That is not going to be happen.." He laughed and told me to sit still.  He worked on my foot for a little while and stopped because he saw that the infected tissue was too strong/hard to try to take it all out in one day.  He finished, cleaned it up, and told me that he would continue to cut out the infection on Saturday.  He gave me an antibiotic to help with the infection and sent me on my way.  I took the antibiotic 2 times but on Friday night I felt my skin just itching and burning too bad.  I went to go take a shower and saw that my entire torso was covered with a bad rash.  It burned so bad.  I couldnt find an allergy pill and so I just went and sat down in the shower.  

Saturday morning the rash was done and we went back to the doctor.  He did the same thing that he did on Thursday but this time it hurt sooooooooo much worse than last time.  He cut and scraped about 1 inch out and then looked at me and said, "This is a lot deeper than I thought." Oh great doctor, way to make your patient feel great... haha.  He told me to cover it and that he would repeat the procedure on Monday. He told me that on Monday he would try to numb my foot so I wouldn't feel so much pain. (why didn't you do that the first time?? haha) Saturday night the rash was back, I would sweat and sweat all night every night so I didn't sleep.   Sunday I was determined to go to church for our first time in our new area and so I limped to church.  We went to our area church.  We got back from church around 9. My foot hurt bad.  I mean bad. When we got back to our house there was a note on our door from a mission couple that works in the office, telling me I needed to urgent ring them.  I rang and they told me that President Brewer called and told them that he wanted the AP's to come give me a Priesthood Blessing.  A little bit later the APs and a senior couple came and gave me a priesthood blessing. The rash came back that night and my foot was more swollen than it had been before.  

Monday morning President rang and told me that him and Sister Brewer did not feel good about this infection and that they would be sending all my records to a doctor in New Zealand.  I knew what that meant.  If this infection did not get under control it would mean I would probably be going home.  At the end of our phone call, President gave me direct orders to stay in our apartment.  (He knows patience is not a virtue of mine) A few hours later a couple came to take me to the doctor.  When we got to the doctor he took off all the bandages  and I could not believe what I saw.  The infection had gone down a lot.  He went to clean it, and all of the green tissue he needed to remove rubbed right off.  We all looked at each other and I was so happy.  He told me to keep the bandages clean and call if anything changed.  When I came back to the mission office Sister Brewer sat me down and explained to me how if the infection  had not gotten better it could have been the end of my mission.  I knew that I had experienced an absolute miracle. 

 Needless to say, I know that Priesthood power is the power of God.  I have never experienced such a miracle as this before in my entire life. I can testify that I have seen firsthand the power of Papa God.  He loves us.  He will protect us, and heal us as we have faith in His healing power.  I am so grateful for the power that we have in this church.  I know it is real.  I know that there are unseen helping hands on the other side of the veil that help protect and comfort missionaries.  It was different being sick this time because I was never scared.  You know me that I been one to worry every time, but this time I was never scared.  I knew who I was serving, and I knew the power that He had.  I know that God's power is greater than any infection or sickness or pain, and that according to the faith of us He can heal us.  

Anyway, other than that minor set back,  things are great!! Loving the work!!!  Learning a lot every day!! 

Love, 

Sister Brown

***Editor's Note****

I edited this email quite a bit.  She has really learned the language well, and it comes through loud and clear in her emails.

I have been in contact with the Mission Office.  They are sending me up-dates on her condition, especially since she has had MRSA before (while at home).  She still has a rash, and the infection seems to be subsiding.  The Area Medical Advisor in New Zealand as well as the France doctor on Port Vila are taking good care of her.

What a blessing it was that she got transferred to Port Vila where the conditions are more modern and sanitary, and that she had a doctor capable of handling this problem.

The Priesthood Blessing that she received brought forth a wonderful miracle, and to that we are grateful.  In her Mission President's email he states, "The infection has subsided remarkably, and we all have experienced a strengthening of our faith because of the priesthood blessing she received."

She is still confined to her apartment.  The Mission President wrote, "Sister Brown has been very good to stay quiet and not be out working, although this is very hard for her.  She loves missionary work!"

Bless her heart!  It is hard for her to stay down, she loves serving the Lord.  We are praying that she will continue to improve, and be back working hard again.

Christmas

Dear Families,

We are the Larsen’s.  We  are a senior couple doing education and self-reliance in Port Vila.  For the holiday, Pres. Brewer asked us to go to Tanna to be with the missionaries.  We had a wonderful visit with them.  We had a service project in the morning.  Then we had a buffet lunch catered by a local restaurant.   The missionaries had more than enough to eat.  After lunch we played volleyball and some basketball.  At the end of the afternoon, we gathered to share some council and our testimonies with the missionaries.  And – we gave them any mail or packages that they had from home.  We are sending you some of the pictures that were taken during the day.

Your young men and women are doing well!!!!

Elder and Sister Larsen

No Room For Contention

Mom!

I can no belief that it is so close up to Christmas!! Thank you too much for sending all of those pictures of the Santa party! It looks like Santa came to a different house this year!  THOSE PRETZELS look sooo tastey!! Speak of tastey...Thank you BIG one for all of the treats, food, and clothes!! When those cartons of food came I am not even going to lie... my companion and me about cried.  We were so happy!!! And those homemade cookies made my whole laef better!!!! :) I shared them with some of our neighbors and they LOVED them.  One of them told me that when he comes to America that is the only thing he wants to eat! haha.  Thank you too much!!!!!! I can not even say it enough!!! But mother! Sending those cartons is expensive too much!!! I can no belief how expensive it is to send things over here! Sorry so much! But thank you!! And thank you for the shirt and those skirts too! Those skirts are perfect.  The fabric is amazing, and it does really well with the board wash! Thank you big one!!! You are the best!!! We decorated our house with the Christmas stockings and all of our neighbors think we are crazy! Christmas is not a very big holiday over here, and so it was good to decorate to try to feel a little bit like Christmas!

Wow it is weird to hear that it is cold at home! It has been hot bitim every hot this week!! And the volcano has been fired up big one! I have not been able to sleep! haha.  It is great!! Christmas is so close up! I call a week from today to set up our appointment to talk on Christmas!

Please please help Sister P have a good Christmas this year. Please go and spend some time with her, she loves to story! I wish I was there to spend Christmas with her! Bake her some treats, but make sure they are soft because she has a hard time eating the hard ones! But she loves treats!! And a salad! Bring her your homemade spinach salad! She loves that! Tell her I love her and miss her big one!!!

This week we have seen miracles in our branch.  Our branch has really been struggling because of tribal/political fights that have been going on.  It has been really hard to make misisioari work the past couple of weeks.  We  have four Melkezedek Priesthood holders in our branch and they  had all been fighting.  We were able to organize a meeting to  help them all address all of their concerns.  They all started arguing and finally we stopped them and asked them why they thought the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints has that name.  They all shrugged their shoulders and we were able to explain that this church is not the church of Ashanti tribe, it is not the church of John From, it is not the church of one man, but it is the Church of Jesus Christ.  All of the political rubbish has no place in the church.  This church is not for a specific group of people, but it is for all people.  We are all invited to come and partake of the fruits of this gospel.  There is no room in the Church of Jesus Christ for contention.  It does not matter if your side of the fight is right, it does not matter if your grudge is justified, if you have contention  you are wrong.  If you have contention in your heart, you have no room for the Holy Ghost to be there.  After that meeting we saw many hearts soften.  They all still bin got all of their differences, but now they have a heart and eye single to the glory of Papa God.

My tripping problem has not been fixed since I got here.  Embarrassing story of the week:  It was night and we had just bin finished a meeting with our branch mission leader.  All of the men in village had bin making a meeting down on the sun beach down from our house.  The path to our house was right in the middle of the meeting so we decided to go around and take another path.  I was holding the torch trying to light the path for us.  I got embarrassed because they all started looking over at us so I started to walk really quickly.  Apparently I was not looking at where I was going because I was embarrassed.  The next thing I knew I was face down in the dirt in a small three foot rubbish hole... I was so embarrassed.  Some one had dug a big big hole to throw all of their rubbish in to burn and I hadn't seen it and fell face first into it.  And the worst part was...everyone saw because all of the sudden the torch light was gone. After I got up and my companion helped me out of the hole covered in dirt and who knows what.. all of the people at the meeting started laughing!! They all started yelling, "Kaka yu bin faldoan!" haha.  So embarrassing.  

Love you all!!!

Someone Call 911

Oh my word, can I just tell you that sending all of those picture of food was probably the rudest form of torture in the entire world? All of the missionaries gathered around my computer and salivated over all of that food. That all looks so amazing.  I am so jealous that you all got to eat and have Thanksgiving. It looks like you out did yourself back again mom! All of the decorations look great! I know how much hard work goes into that, and I am so glad I wasn't there to help! ;) haha joke no more! :)

This week definitely brought its fair share of trials our way.  Papa God is definitely testing our faith and putting us through the refiners fire here in White Sands.  Tuesday my companion woke up at 4 in the morning.  I was tired too much and I thought that she was just going to the toilet, so I just rolled over. All of the sudden she walked over the mirror and I heard her scream, and I mean scream.  I jumped out of bed and ran over to her and she turned to show me a big..something on her neck.  I was a little shocked and I just sungout "What the heck is that?" haha..(yeah I don't think that helped the situation) I got my torch and looked a little closer at it and it looked like a 2 inch long blister sort of thing..but something was inside it.  It was yellow and had little white eggs inside of it.  After my awesome reaction, my companion began to cry and cry because she was fright.  I fastened some fabric around my waist and ran over to house of our neighbors to ask them if they had ever seen anything like that before. They all gave the same reaction that I did and so we were a little concerned. Every time I tried to touch it she would scream...so I just got a pen and marked the ends of the sore so that I could try to track the growth of it.  Thirty minutes later no more the sore had grown 1/2 an inch.  It was hurting her so bad, so I told her that I would ring the mission nurse in Villa.  After explaining the situation, the mission nurse told me to ring the elders and have them come carry us to the hospital.  We waited about an hour and a half while they drove here and then we went to the hospital. Man am I grateful for the hospitals in America now, you would die if you saw what we saw.

We got to the hospital around 10 in the morning and Sister Lutui was in a lot a lot of pain.  I walked quickly around the hospital trying to find where to check in and then one lady said, "the hospital is closed until afternoon" What kind of hospital just closes? Ale..so the two of us just stopped wait until 1:30.  While we were sitting there waiting Sister Lutui began to whimper back again and say that her arm was stinging and burning so bad. I looked down and she had another sore coming up on her arm. This sore was worse beating the other sore.  This sore was an open, sore and pussing.  At 1:30 one man that worked at the hospital came up to us and said, "Sorry too much, but there are no doctors at the hospital today.  We will try to find someone who schooled small to see you two." Are you kidding me? Is this real life? So we waited and waited and finally a man in a dirty white coat came and told us to come back into some room.  He asked to see her sores and then he said, "hmm I don't really know what this is, so I am just going to leave them a lone and have you two try taking a medicine.." Sister Lutui started to cry and that's when Miss Katelyn bossy pants came out..haha.  I said, "Brata, do you think you could try to drain the sore on her neck and dress it to try to relieve some pressure?" He looked at me like I was crazy and said, "si si that is probably a good idea.."  After I said, "And this one on her wrist is red, she has a fever, and it is pussing, I think it is infected.  Do you think you could drain this one dress it and give us an antibiotic?"  He said, "Si si..that is good idea too" haha...are you serious? He wrote all of my instructions down on a piece of paper and told us to wait to go receive our treatment.  We went into the door next door labeled "treatment room".  When we walked in there was a wooden chair and a sink with no soap. One man in basketball shorts came in and asked, "Sistas, what operation am I doing?"  hahaha that is the wrong thing to say..Sister Lutui started to cry and said, "Sister Brown please don't let them kill me.." haha.  Needless to say..she survived!  The "nurse" sent me home with a sterile solution, gauze, wrap, and a syringe to try to drain the wound every day and dress it every day.  I have been up all night every night playing nurse.  She ran a high fever for four days and both of her sores got really really infected.  It was so fun to play doctor!  We went back to the hospital 2 other days this week and finally on Sunday the sores stopped draining and things are looking better now! I pray that I will NEVER have to go to that hospital!  I will attach a picture of one of the infected sores and me making surgery.

I have never been so tired in my life.  I have been able to get sleep 1 hour every night this week because my companion has been sick! But it's all good, because when we went to the hospital in Lenakel we got an ice cream cone!!! A REAL ONE!! I WAS SOO HAPPY!! :) My Thanksgiving wasn't that big this year.  I drew my companion a hand turkey and told her Happy Thanksgiving.  We ran out of food, and the only thing left in our house was a tube of popcorn kernals. We were excited too much to eat popcorn because we have been CRAVING American food!!  I put them on the stove and then went to borrow something from the neighbors. When I came back my companion was asleep and the entire house was filled with smoke. I ran to the stove and turned it off.  After I got tongs to try to take the lid off and when I did flames came out of the pot. Needless to say, my Thanksgiving dinner was nothing compared to yours. Happy Thanksgiving to me I guess? haha.  (Good thing our house didn't catch on fire, we have been out of water for two days...)  haha

On Tuesday this week we also received news that our unit will be shut down for the time being.  There are some tribal situations going on that made it so our unit can not meet anymore. For the time being we are no longer allowed to even proselyte in that area whatsoever.  We cannot even walk about on that side of our area.   We had all of the people that used to attend the unit meet together so that we could tell them the news. My heart broke for all of these people as I told them.  They all cried and cried as we carried the sacrament trays and calico out of the unit.  We cried the whole way home and all of the mama's did not want us to leave.  I know that Papa God is testing the faith of these people and of us as missionaries.  He needs us to sacrifice for a small time and then he will show us his plan for us. It is just so hard because we have worked so hard in this area and had 8 people ready to get baptized this Saturday.  Now we will not be able to do that for the time being.  We have been fasting and praying all week to understand Papa's will for our unit.  I know that the unit will stand back up again.  I know that Satan is working really hard, but Papa God will always win. On Sunday many of the people from the unit made the walk to the Branch to worship.  We all cried as they shared their sweet testimonies of sacrifice.  This week has been a very faith testing week, but I am so grateful for all of these trials that I have faced here.  They are making me tough, and helping me learn patience.  Missionary work is amazing!!! The experiences are experiences that I will never forget!  Thank you for all of the support and prayers!! I hope that you all have a fantastic week!

 Yolkokakaeek!