I had to say goodbye to my mom, the zone mom, which was actually Elder Ortiz. He was the priesthood coordinator. I am going to miss him. Then my comp and I got called to that calling so now we are the zone moms. It is crazy how close you can get to people in 3 weeks.
Elder Smith got up to bare his testimony, he talked about he is fluent in Spanish so he thought he would go Spanish speaking. He got his call to Samoa; although he wasn't upset he always thought he needed to teach people with the gift of knowing Spanish. Having faith he brought a Spanish Book of Mormon and some other Spanish teaching tools. His visa got delayed so he got sent to Washington DC for a transfer. What he didn't realize is that mission is huge for Spanish. He was so grateful. It was a great testimony that God knows each of us and we all have a plan.
On Tuesday, we got back to the residence and for some reason I felt like I shouldn't change out of my proselyting clothes. You know me - I am kinda always like whatever. But then as I walked into our district in the other room they were all talking and Elder Lunt has asthma and is struggling because all of the fires and smoke in the valley. Only his companion and I were still in proselyting clothes. Although a few of them could have changed really quickly; it was a great testament that you always need to be ready spiritually to give blessings or invite unto Christ. I got to participate in a priesthood blessing and the next day he was completely fine. It was a testimony builder of priesthood power.
We initiated the new elders and I was one of the intimidators. We did the Baafa thing like they did to us, but then they told an elder "you will not speak! or we will feed you to lalo papa" then they started chanting lalo papa, and I jumped over everyone out of no where and scared the crap out of some people. It was awesome. Everyone calls me lalo papa, which means Underwood in Tongan, but it sounds cool haha.
Lokwe ippami,
Elder Underwood
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