Here's a few of the cool things that have happened this week:
On Tuesday we had dinner with a great family, then went over with the wife to go visit their neighbors, Pam and Less. Pam is a less active member and Less is a non member. They are the ones that we gave blessings to a couple of weeks ago. We had a great little lesson with them, and at the end they asked us when we could teach them the missionary discussions! We set something up for Thursday and left with a prayer. On Thursday we taught the restoration and Less accepted it like it was old news! Everything that we thought he would have had a concern with he accepted right away! It is cool to see someone who has been so prepared! It's cool to watch somebody really dig in and thirst for the gospel!
We had a great lesson with Forest, another less active man, who we met at one of Donna's Saturday dinners. We watched a BYU talk with him (Brad Wilcox's "His Grace is Sufficient" talk. Really good! Find it and watch it!), which really touched him. The spirit was very strong as we testified of the truthfulness of the gospel. He committed to have us help him quit his addictions, and to read the Book of Mormon. He still has some concerns, but he's on his way back to Christ.
Sister McGuire, a lady who was less active, is doing really great! She offered to give Sheril a ride to church, and would be more than happy to come to lessons with us! We had a really good talk with her husband the last time we were over there, and found our that at one point he was more active than most of the members out here, and he was going to be baptized! He's a great man, and I think we will put our efforts towards him for a while, and see if we can help him out. They get along really well, so maybe we'll talk about temple marriage!
Thursday night we got a call from one of the members who said "Hey, if you have a Spanish Bible, bring it over ASAP!" Unfortunately we got his message at 9:15 pm (past our curfew), so we called him back and set up an appointment for the next day. We went over and met his wife, who is from Peru, and their friend Susana from Mexico. He had given her a Book of Mormon which she has been reading with excitement! We had a good talk with her, and began teaching with the Daily Dose program. It is this awesome English Language Learning program that the church has come out with. She loves it, and she's said the closing prayer after both lessons we have had with her! We told the group at Donna's dinner that we were teaching English and got a very positive reaction. We're starting to put up posters. It's going to go really well, because the population is so diverse here! Almost 30% Philippians, 30% white people, 20% Samoan,10% Hispanic, and 10% from somewhere in Africa and other countries! It's a pretty cool place!
We had a few lessons with Sheril, and with her father Larry. They are very strong Natives, who really want the best for their people. Both are very interested in the gospel, because they've never heard about it before! Maybe it will help them out!
On Sunday night we had a musical Fireside. It went really well. Elder Wilson has a great voice! While I was playing a song I wrote, I felt a tickle in my throat, so my eyes started watering, I looked up and saw a couple people crying, because they thought I was crying, then I actually started crying! Pretty crazy.
Yesterday we got to participate in the communities Memorial Day service, and met a lot of good people. Every religion got to speak or pray for a few minutes, and I got to pray for the whole island! It was a very powerful thing to see all of the religion united for something. We also had some very good conversations with many of the religious leaders, and made some good friends. Thank you to all of those who sacrificed so much for our freedom!
Anywhoo, really good week! Oh, and we didn't have time to write letters yesterday. . . So hang tight :)
Love to all!
Elder Gullerud
Email dated May 28, 2013
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