Mother dearest that I love soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much! Wow has it been long to hear from all of you! I am alive and yes I am still kicking! The extending is still in the air so there is nothing too much to worry about just enough that I am praying continually for help on making this decision. Any who I am doing awesome! This area this past week has blown up! we have been sooooooo blessed due to our continual efforts to be exactly obedient to the rules. We have been able to find a new investigator Ua'i. We found her through getting a referral from one of our investigators. We both decided we should go and visit her and figure out if she is interested. We met and sat down for the first visit and it ends up that she had met with missionaries before and had received a Restoration pamphlet. After receiving it she moved over here to Upolu. From the first day that she got it she was reading it every single day. EVERY DAY. We just happened to walk up to her when she was most ready to receive the message. She is now on date for the 22nd of July! She is awesome and we are very grateful! 

We also due to my AMAZING companion were able to find a less active/part member family. My companion received a thought to go visit a house that we hadn't been to in a while and I agreed. Turns out there was a new family that moved in and I was only able to talk to one of the sons of the family. Introduced the BoM and he was hooked! Told us to come back the next day! We went over and turns out the whole family dropped everything to listen to what we had to say! They all now are praying to know if Joseph Smith is a prophet of God and if the Book of Mormon is true! THE BLESSINGS DON'T STOP!

Little blessings include one investigator getting prepared to be married and baptized! As well as another investigator who was found who just needs to be married. 

I am loving this area mom. I love my Savior and more than most I love His Gospel and the path that He has provided for all of us to return to Him and the Father. 

Oh BTW met up with a drunk/evil spirit surrounded man who tried to climb our fense to our house. I asked him what he wanted and he told me, "you". Yeah you could just say that my Derek skills came out and I talked to him (and tried with all my might not to run into the house screaming like a 14 year old girl who just saw Justin Beiber) until the bad spirit left him and he was willing to leave.....or so we thought. Later in the night he climbs over the fence and starts asking who is home and walking around our locked house. Yeah told him strait up to go home. He left but stayed right outside our house most of the night cussing at us. Fun night. 

I am living mom and I am loving the Mission. Crazy to think that I am almost a year out huh! I am doing it! And I am glad to see that all is good at home! Can't wait to see the Florida pics in a couple of weeks! Language is still needing work but I am praying daily for help!

Alofa atu

Elder Bethea