Volleyball, Transfers, and Another Week - July 28, 2014

Another week has come and gone. As for now I am not entirely sure when I will be going home. Considering that I arrived in the MTC three week later than everyone else, I'm not sure if I will go home with my group which would be early May or late April, or if I'll go home the transfer after. We'll see. I shouldn't be too worried about it. And I'm not. I just don't enjoy not knowing if I have 10 or 9 months lefts. Ha, it's weird, I know.

On Monday we had a multi-zone activity in Papeete. It was pretty fun. We played basketball and volleyball for hours and hours. After that we had a family night with a member family that recently moved into the ward. We talked about enduring to the end.

Tuesday we had a lesson with a newer investigator named Teraia (ter-rye-ya). When we had met her for the first time she told us that she didn't know of any one named Teraia in her neighborhood. Then a day or two later we run into the same person and she tells us that she was actually Teraia and that she had lied to us because she was afraid of what her boyfriend would have said if she had talked to us. So explained that her boyfriend really doesn't like us but she wants the lessons anyway. We get her number and went on with our day. Again, a few days later we run at  into her 6 p.m.just after having left the house because we wanted to do something and not just sit around. When we ran into her she was happy because she had just got a new number for herself and she then gave us her new number. We also fixed her next lesson right there because she seemed really serious about doing them. And she is. We have started her lessons and she is doing really well. We challenged her to pray to know if Joseph Smith is a real prophet so we'll see how that goes this week.

This week we had the baptism of Henry. The one that was going to be baptized but decided not to because of his parents. He decided on Wednesday to be baptized even if his parents aren't okay. Yay! The baptism went really well. And as he bore his testimony he shared a verse in the Matt. 10:37 that says that if someone loves their brother or sister or mother or father more than me, they are not worthy of me. It was really powerful.

Henry's Baptism

This was our candle light dinner WITHOUT the flash . . .

... and WITH the flash!

Apparently this is the week of transfers. Better said, normally this week is the week of transfers but no one has received any news of where they are going which is rather unusual, but maybe our new mission president has a new way of doing transfers. We'll see.

My companion finishes next week. That's weird. I love you all. I know this church is true and that the Lord loves us.

Love,
Elder Squires



p.s. Henry's baptism

This was our candle light dinner with and without the flash