Gud Morning! Olsem Wanem? - The Weekly Email

Hello everyone! Just got back from MLC these past couple days! I'm running on about 3 hours of sleep, but I feel oddly fine. Perhaps it's just the spiritual boost I just got fired up on... Anyway, MLC was a great experience. First off, July is going to be an absolutely huge month for our mission, we have a goal of 200 baptisms mission wide and to have EVERY SINGLE COMPANIONSHIP baptize. I normally don't get majorly fired up about anything really, but I'm pretty stoked for July. I haven't seen an investigator that I've been teaching be baptized in a long time now, and I'm tired of the drought. Some really great things came out of MLC though, it was awesome to watch how councils in the church bring up issues and lead to revelation that wouldn't have come forward before if there hadn't been any discussion. One of my main take-aways was to focus on what we call our foundation in the VPVM: The scriptures, the white handbook, Preach My Gospel, letters from the Mission President, and the words of the living prophets. 

In terms of the work this past week, Kena made a huge step forward on Thursday. We had a lesson with just him (often our lessons are with a big group) and he talked about what he's been feeling recently. We had visited them the day before in the evening and ended up giving their newborn a blessing before they took her to the hospital (nothing serious, just a little concerned). Once at the hospital, nothing was wrong, so they came home. He told us that seeing that blessing had touched them, and he admitted that he had kind of been lying to us and avoiding us recently, but that he wanted to change and get back on track. Really excited about that. Other than that, right now Elder Scroggin and I are really looking for some new investigators and evaluating where to put our focus in order to help the people who could get baptized do so, while putting those who are still working on marriage more on the back-burner. 

That's about all for this week, love you all!

Elder Miner

In the Port Vila Market

Vanuatu MLC! Us and the STL's for all of New Cal

A view of MLC

Sister Granger bringing some miracles!

Recording session in the mission home, we got asked to record a song we performed at the MLC musical devotional. Hope it ends up on the mission Facebook page so you can all check it out.