Sick week

Sick week.  On Saturday we had dinner dropped off to us at the church from this nice samoan lady. We go in the church and its just packed with Samoans a little girl was getting baptized just a child of record they thought... Turns out her parents were both non members her grandparents had been taking her to church for years waiting for her to turn 8 to baptize her. So the baptism ends up being in out stewardship.. pretty sweet miracle!! haha

Malia got baptized on Sunday it was so sweet!!! she has had an incredible change of heart, just a couple weeks ago she was getting drunk drowning her sorrows working crazy hours and just making her way through life. She never really was involved in our lessons because of the language barrier she got her from Samoa last year. We kept inviting and after she acted she got an answer to her prayers to be baptized. After she got that answer she messed, she got drunk the night before her baptism and missed church. We went over to her house and knocked on her door for like 10 min straight until she opened it. When she saw us she jumped and the godly sorrow stepped in I was super disappointed. We invited her to repent on the spot and ask God to forgive her. Ever since that day she knew she had to change and Sunday she was Baptized!" We all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23 only through Christs atonement was her guilt swept away. Baptism opened that gate to forgiveness.

We have been teaching a man named Ernie he got in a super bad accident 10 years ago. Due to the accident he only has one leg. He is a very humble man who showed up at church one sunday and we have been teaching him since. He was already living the word of wisdom the law of chastity loves the church just wants to know if Joseph Smith was a prophet. We gave him the restoration movie to watch and pray on. He did and the spirit pricked his heart he is getting baptized next week. 

we found a family of 7 to be baptized!!! hopefully really soon:) so many miracles over here humbling to be apart of. 

happy gen conf. 

I love you

Elder Fife

Mom & Son

Momma, Ill be home for your bday next year we can make it very eventful!! 

The missionary work this week was awesome truly never a bad day here in tacoma!!! 

At transfer meeting when we met Elder Tafua our fresh comp from the mtc we like jumped on him and his bag flew up and hit me in the face and I cut my lip pretty bad no biggy though.. haha

That is crazy Haley is married like what the... haha 

I have been in this area for almost 6 months so crazy i will probably be leaving next transfer though. 

I love tons mom have a wonderful week:)

Elder Fife

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Sandra Fife <jnsfife@yahoo.com>wrote:

Hi Son,
Thanks for the birthday wishes. I'm driving home from Vegas right now. Just passed SLC. Kind of an uneventful birthday. That was the most fancy wedding I've ever been to. They had a sit down fancy dinner for about 400 people at $75 a plate. Crazy how much money people have. They're house was the nicest house I've ever been to. It was fun to go to the Vegas temple so pretty. You are defiantly right Vegas is a place I never need to go to again.

How was the missionary work this week? We are all wondering what happened to your lip?? Haley and Mac are coming home for a day then I'll take them back to the airport tomorrow night for a red eye trip back to NYC. So crazy she is married and lives in NYC.

I love you son thanks for being so amazing! Loves Momma💋


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Elder Fife has a fat lip💋 not sure why?

Mom + Bud

yeah mom wasnt i just at 12 months it is flying by!!!! yall always seem to be having good times back home makes me happy everything is going well!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK i love ya so much you are the best mom  i could ever ask for i see all these ghetto moms smacking on their kids and i just get so grateful for you mom like you are the best cant put my love for ya in writing!! you friend was nice saw her for like 2 seconds but she seemed nice!! 

i love you so much mom

Love elder Fife

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Sandra Fife <jnsfife@yahoo.com>wrote:

Hi Son!
13 months since I've seen your beautiful face! Goodwine friended me on fb he said your the man and he loved serving with you. He wants to come visit sometime.

Hannah, Dad + Cade are off at a fireside. Hannah is conducting it :) I'm sitting here with Cole he is reading  a book and wants me to help him read. I read a page he reads a page. Somethings never change haha Rudy is snoring in the background.

How was your week? I'd of liked to have been a fly on the wall when you were chastising that girl for being drunk! Dad would of done the same thing... That's great you are staying in that area. You seem to love it. Good people that are receptive to the gospel makes your life more enjoyable.

The boys had early morning games on Saturday. Cade's team crushed mountain crest! Coles team got crushed by Bear river. Those bear river boys are BIG!

Well Son I'm very proud of you everyday. Thanks for being the missionary I always knew you'd be. I love you ❤️❤️❤️❌⭕️❌⭕️ Mom

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Elders combined weight 800l lbs.

Tuesday I got my new comps Elder Marsh and Elder Tafua. We are Training Elder Tafua he is the coolest kid around!!!! He is from Laie Hawaii and has a full ride to play outside linebacker for BYU when he gets back. This guy is huge he weighs 240.. haha but super humble and has a strong testimony couldn't ask for better companions!! 

This week was so good, but the tire pressure in the corolla probably not as good.. all of us combined weight of 800 pounds in that thing haha big boys!! nobody messes with us!!

Yesterday we went to this really ghetto neighborhood to visit some of our samoan investigators. they live in this duplex and on the other side are these way crazy black people.. when we got there they were yelling and screaming swear words at each other hitting eachothers garages with bats pushing kids over like it was way entertaining but sad at the same time so we went to brake it up but they were so crazy we couldnt do much.. anyways after the cops came we talked to our investigator nephi... haha nis dad was a member and left him when he was a child thats where he got the name. 

but anyways he is getting baptized next week so thats sick!! we played him and his crew in basketball at the park the deal was if we win they had to come to church with us and if we lost we would buy them luch they were pretty good but we still won!! none of them showed up to church but they all promised to come next week and are excited to get baptized. 

hopefully some of this makes sense im hurrying 

We fasted on sunday for a family to come to church and for more baptisms!! when we went to church a new family of samoans showed up and they are feeding us on thursday!! God has blessings waiting for you but you simply have to ask in  the name of christ order to recieve them

Elder Fife secretly wants to be a Samoan

Goodwine goes home

Transfers!! I am staying and my new comp is Elder Marsh. Enosa is staying and Alvarez is leaving and we are getting another boy to train. 

It is sad to see Goodwine go one of my favorite comps so far!!

This week has been pretty good we had a baptism on Saturday with this kid named Daniel... his mom got baptized 5 years ago then disappeared she reappeared and had a kid ready to be baptized.. Daniel is 11 years old and a nightmare to teach quite the headache actually!! but he was stocked to get baptized so that's all that matters. 

we were going to baptize Malia on sunday as well but she skipped church so we went over to her house she was hung over from a party the night before..  we got so mad at her i probably lost my temper a bit but she deserved it... haha Hopefully she will get baptized in the next couple weeks 

jeez missions can be stressful sometimes but the relief after a baptism is the best thing ever!!!

love,

Elder Fife