20 Lessons, On foot, and Elder Pearson - August 18, 2014

Hello family and friends, thanks for joining in for this week's "Weekly Update." Happily typed by Elder Squires. Things out on the small island have been good. We will start out this week with a look on the "20 Lessons."

My companion and I walked a healthy 15 miles as we walked back and forth to our lessons. With several cancellations but several lessons out of the blue, our goal for 20 lessons came out well. The news is that one of our investigators agreed that once she knew these things were true she would be baptized. Her name is Simone and we engaged her to read and pray about the Book of Mormon. She agreed but for the second lesson of the week she was found absent. It was rather depressing. But continuing on. We found a new investigator named Marcel who is very interested and looks like serious potential for baptism. He is a young 18 year old boy who we found on the street one day and asked if he wouldn't like the lessons. He glady accepted and our first lesson went really well. Over all it was a good week for lessons. 

As for the report about "On Foot." This week my companion's bike did arrive but the thing is that his helmet didn't arrive with it. So the first night that we took it out we were told by one of the senior couples that he needs to have the special helmets that all the missionaries have, and since he only has an old bike helmet that we had at the house we decided to go on foot. Not to mention that going on foot is a million times easier. No helmet, no getting on and off, no finding a spot to park it. And no pushing it up the mountains in our area. Ha, but we will get back on our bikes someday. 

And for Elder Pearson. He is the area seventy that presides over the south pacific. He came and we did a conference with him. This is the third time that he has come since the beginning of the year. He talked about becoming true disciples of Christ. And no longer having problems. When we have problems it's because we are stuck between two places. He encouraged us to become true disciples. To answer two questions. As a disciple I will leave behind..... And as a disciple I will be ....It was a good talk. I really enjoyed it. 

That's all for me this week. I love you all family and I hope that you are doing well. 

I know this church is true and that God loves us. 

Elder Squires