"Remember, to be carnally-minded is death, and to be spiritually-minded is life eternal."

Hello my family,

Transfers today! I'm staying in Samoa! And Elder Holcomb is staying too. All is well in these wards.

Lots happened this week, but not much time to write. 

We've been trying serve people more, so on Thursday we went near a busy street and picked up trash for few hours. It was awesome. I love service! And we met nice people while we were out. Several times people stopped to give us cold water that they bought for us.

We started teaching a young girl named Taumari. She is the cousin of an active family and just moved in with them. We taught about prophets and sang the song Follow the Prophet and the spirit was so strong, and Tau just has a sweet spirit. 

On the 4th of July we had dinner at Ola and Maria and Alex and Brandon's house with a few other awesome families in the ward. Ola is a great cook. And the whole family is doing really well. Someone in the ward who was good friend with Ola in Samoa 30 years ago told us that Ola said he's seen a difference in Alex and Brandon--they pray with the family now. The Gospel changes lives!

Love,

Elder Judd

"give heed to the word of Christ, which will point to you a straight course to eternal bliss"

Malo soifua! Manuia le Aso Tina! Happy Mothers' Day!

This week was awesome.

Something President Van Cott always says is to go forth with GREAT faith and MIGHTY prayer. And after attending a meeting on Thursday with some other missionaries, we began to have a strong desire to apply this better.

So, we decided to have mightier prayers. We began praying specifically that we would find a family that the Lord has prepared to be taught and baptized. The next day our plans didn't go exactly as planned. Something told us to go to "The Complex Full of Samoans". So we went. And we talked with Fetulima. Every time we've talked with him before he had either ignored us or wouldn't say much. But, this time he wanted to come to church. and told us we could teach him and his kids.

Mighty prayer works!

We also had a billion ward parties this week because of Mother's Day and Bishop Wendt's birthday. Samoan people love to celebrate things. And mostly, I think they love to eat. And at the beginning of many of the parties they'll have a hymn and a prayer and a spiritual thought. Listening to these people sing a Capella hymns has become my favorite thing to do, just after preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Heavenly Father is so good to us. I know he loves us and listens to our prayers. He answers prayers.

Alofa atu,

Elder Judd