Stand in Holy Places

Many new things have happened this week and the most important is that we have three baptisms tomorrow! I am so excited to help these three enter into the waters! It seriously is the best thing that I can imagine! Nothing super interesting happened this week. I am loving it over here in Faleula! We are seeing success every single day! It is a little harder now that one of the bike tires is popped so we are enjoying walking!

Cool experience this week we went into a store and a drunk man comes up to me really intense and says we need to talk at my house right now. So I took it as this guy is wanting to talk about Jesus and how He can help him...until I saw him buy another bottle of Vodka. But we went anyway, turns out he was baptized and wanted to change his life. We met his friend on the road and immediately his friend said no we are not taking them back to the house, they are missionaries of God, they have been set apart with a holy spirit that should not be in a house with two drunk men. Then he asked us to come back another day so that we could talk when they weren't drunk. Oh this man was baptized as well and wants us to come over and help him get on the right path! It made me think when we were walking away from that conversation how important it is for us to always look for holy places to stand in. We all have a special spirit with us that will get offended if we are not doing all that we can to keep ourselves away from the appearance of sin. Just like in 3Nephi11:1 when they were all standing around the temple. Remember that a temple is a house of God. And they were talking about Jesus. There was not a better situation for Jesus Christ to come down and teach them. Just like us if we are always in a situation that is applicable to the spirit we can and will receive personal testimony builders and will be happier than ever before.

I know that we WILL receive guidance and blessings if we strive to stand in holy places.

Thank you all for all the love and support. Keep fighting the good fight!

Alofa atu

Elder Bethea