Zone Challenge!! In our mission, we average about 2-3 new amis found each week per companionship. This transfer, our zone wanted to push ourselves a bit further, so we set a goal to find 180 new amis this transfer, which ends up being 20 amis per companionship in 6 weeks. Elder Irvine and I were super pumped about this challenge, and we've been working hard!! This week, a lot of our lessons fell through, so we spent a lot of time contacting and trying to find new amis. We were blessed, and were able to find 8 new amis this week!! Over twice the average for the mission! Needless to say, we are very proud of ourselves, but it's only the beginning. Some sectors are much harder than others, so Elder Irvine and I are going to have to pick up some of the slack. Faaitoito!
Nanua is kinda the sad note of this week. Everything was going great, he had gotten to smoking 1 cigarette every other day, and he was on track to be ready for his baptism this coming Saturday. We stopped by his house this Sunday to walk to church with him, and he was busy watching a soccer game on TV. We asked him if he was ready to go to church with us, and he just told us frankly that he didn't want to. He didn't want any of it. We tried to talk a bit more about why he felt that way, but he just didn't want to talk. We're gonna stop by during the week to see how he's doing, and what happened this past Sunday, but for the moment, it looks like Saturday isn't really gonna be an option.