Mauri!
I am doing great. I have great internet service now, so I figured I would send a quick update.
I got to work in Temaiku 1st Branch these past two weeks. This past Sunday, we took five minutes at the beginning of Sunday School in both the adult class and the Youth/YSA class and gave each member a restoration pamphlet. We challenged them to read the pamphlet, pray for the truth of it, and then share their testimony with someone (and to give that person the pamphlet). The members are excited and I believe that work with the members will be going great. We have been working on connecting our investigators to fellowshipping. I am excited to see the work in Temaiku continue to grow. There is a great deal of potential in the Temaiku 1st Branch.
I am now working with Elder Morphonios, from North Carolina. He is great. I am serving in Banraeaba -- an area that I have served before. It is going to be a great transfer!
Life is going great! Life is amazing! So, I studied patience this past week -- as it is one of the Christlike Attributes found in Preach My Gospel, chapter 6. I am trying to develop Christlike Attributes so that I can minister better to the people that I come in contact with. I learned that patience is more than I previously had thought. It is the ability to not become anxious, angry, or frustrated through the D.O.T.S. (Delays, Opposition, Troubles, and Sufferings) of life. I am grateful that the D.O.T.S. of life are just small dots, fleeting and small. In Moroni 9, Mormon tells us to focus on Christ and to let that lift us up. I hope that we can all focus a bit more on Christ so that we can make it though whatever "dot" the Lord sees fit for us to pass through. He can have hope through Christ enough to develop the patience to pass through our trials. This life is a great, precious gift from our Heavenly Father. It really is up to us if we see it that way. I hope I can develop the patience to always see it that way.
Hope you are all doing great! Keep pressing on! The church is real, President Nelson is the voice of the Lord on the earth today, ministering is real! There is so much work to be done! I am excited to go do it! View general conference as a reference for what work we can be doing. I heard somewhere that general conference should be our walk and talk for the six months that lead up to the next general conference... Exciting, right? We have plenty to walk and talk about. :)
Love you all!
Today is the day - let's go seize it!
Hurrah for Israel!
Elder Weenig
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| Etuati's baptism in Abaiang |
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| Helping a dentist do a fluoride treatment |
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| Top of the Catholic tower, with Elder Sanft, and Sisters Robison & Sillito |
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| A ball I made out of pandanus leaves. The sister's name is Sister Robison --from Utah. |
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| Elder Sanft cooked a pig for Sister Sillito's going away party on Abaiang |
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| Elder Sanft and I on Abaiang (Tebunginako Village) |
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The STLs (Sister Training Leaders) came to pick up Sister Sillito |
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| On the church owned speed boat -- the Riaona (the Liahona) |
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| Leaving Abaiang (with Elder Butcher) |
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| Titu and I -- He is a kid from a family that was baptized while I was in Temaiku 2nd last year. I saw him at church. |
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| Good bye Elder Farner (he was transferred to Christmas Island) |
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| Working with Elder Scholle (my friend from Timpanogos High School) and Elder Davidson (he is awesome, he is from Springville). Elder Davidson is hidden a bit by Elder Scholle |
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| Good bye to Elder Dale (he's heading home), my second companion |
