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This week gave me a lot of hope for the weeks to come. I met a girl with Elder Olsen a long time ago but she didn't want to talk plenty so we asked if she knew any Christians and she told us somewhere to go. Elder Pulupaki and I went back to her place on exchange to visit her and she was very welcoming to us. We didn't share a message with her that day but we set the foundation to come back. I went back with Elder Kokiantali and we invited her to church. We offered to help with anything and I feel like she was more welcoming after we asked if we could help. When we were there, she told us she would come but we needed to make her food for after so I made groundnut soup and rice and told her she needed to make us food. Sunday came and she showed up with her two kids and said she will bring one more girl this next week. We were able to have a powerful lesson with her about the restoration because she was asking questions about one of the talks in church about baptism. The sp...

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This week was hot. Last week we went to a members house to help her fetch water. We had to carry buckets to a pipe not super far away but a nice walk then carry them back full of water. The natives here just carry it on their head but I dont like that too much so I put it on my shoulder. After we fetched 5 buckets I felt like I was going to pass out but I couldnt let the member see that so I continued until we carried a total of 7. My held a lot of dirt toward the end. We started the week with a wonderful lesson with sister Lydia who was taught by missionaries before but she didn't care so she didn't remember anything. She met someone who changed her view on the book or mormon so she decided to read it and came to church. When we went there so was so receptive to everything we taught and was so excited to learn.  We then had to prepare the apartment to receive two new missionaries. They split our area so we now have 4 in the apartment and 4 at church each su...