Hello very much!
I just wanted to write about a few blessings that I have seen while on my mission.
When
I was set apart as a missionary I was blessed that I would be kept safe
from injury and illness. A while back I did get sick, I caught the
Dengue Fever which is a sickness from mosquitoes. Basically what happens
is that it attacks your joints and makes them very painful every time
you move and every time you don't. It also thins your blood to the point
where you have internal bleeding which can get very serious. It usually
takes a month or two to recover from it. When I had it I was worried
because the bleeding was getting pretty bad pretty fast. However, I
recovered within a week and was able to get back to proselyting. I know
this was because of the blessing of protection I received before my
mission.
Another miracle was told to me by a
man that I met a while ago. He told me a story about his mother. She and
her family lived in a village called Seetaga here in Tutuila. There was
a hurricane while they lived there, a very bad one. Everybody started
getting out of the village because the village of Seetaga was going to
be the main impact point of the hurricane. This old lady did not leave
though. She told her family that if they had enough faith then they
would be alright. The family tried to get her to leave but she wouldn't.
They finally left and she stayed. She prayed and then sat to wait out
the hurricane. When her family came back they said that there was not a
house or tree or anything standing because of how bad the storm
was, except for the house that the old lady was staying in. He said that
this experience is what keeps him strong in the church.
Another
miracle I have seen was back while I was in Upolu. I was with my
companion Elder Laulu. We were going to pick up and investigator for
church (pick up means walk to his house and then walk to church with
him) and he told us that he would not be able to come to church because
his son was very sick and he was going to have to take him to the
hospital. We offered to give the little boy a blessing and they said
yes. I was very humbled by how my companion went about giving the
blessing, I was kind of thinking that we should hurry up to try to get
the blessing done so that we could get him to church, but my companion
took his time getting ready. He first said a prayer and then he washed
his hands. After he had washed his hands we reverently gave the child a
blessing. As we started the blessing the child was crying and had a bad
fever. As we gave the blessing the child stopped crying and fell asleep
after the blessing he woke up and smiled at his dad. They later told us
that he was no longer sick after we left. This was a big
testimony builder to me.
Those are just a few cool experiences that I have seen on my mission.
Sorry
this email is a bit late, my companion and I had to go over to Upolu
for a meeting so we had to change our p-day this week.
Love you all and have a happy new year!! Manuia le tausaga fou!!
Alofa atu!
-Elder Lamoreaux
This is our island activity we did on Christmas.
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