April 24, 2017: My new area!!...Bradford!!

Dear family,

It was really tough saying goodbye to everyone this week! I will miss

Grimsby so much but I know it is all for the best! My heart will

always be in Grimsby! Now with that being said, I absolutely love

Bradford! This place is sweet it's like I'm in a whole different land!

It is so beautiful up here! There is a huge Asian community here!

(Asians here are middle Eastern people likeIndia, Iran, seria,etc...) 

The smell of curry is always in the air let me tell you! The ward is amazing 

a lot of them were converted from the

Muslim Faith! There was a deaf guy named Raji... he is a homie! I love

this man! He spoke in sacrament meeting this Sunday it was one of the

best talks I have ever heard! Now your probably asking how a deaf guy

gave a Sacrament talk? He stood at the stand and gave it in sign

language while some one translated it through a microphone for him! It

was so cool! He told us a story how is family growing up was very

Muslim but one of his friends from the death school gave him a kids

Book of Mormon and told him about Jesus Christ! He was very confused

because he use to think that Jesus was for white peopleonly, but after his

friend explained who he was and gave him the Book of Mormon he was

very intrigued! He said when he first starting reading the book he

felt this power he could not explain and he felt as if he was there

with the nephites and the lamanites! He could not stop reading! He said

the book was like a treasure to him and that he would have to hide the

book under the bed from his family so they wouldn't find out!  He

said he was very scared about the whole process because of his family

and he was scared he would be punished! He didn't really explain too

much what happened after but his testimony was amazing! There are so

many members here with such cool stories and such great testimonies! I

can already tell I'm going to love it here! The teaching pool here is

alright, there isn't to many people here that we are working with!

Bradford is known to be a struggling area! We are finding some good

people to teach though and we are working hard! Most people here are

Muslim here, so it's quite hard to find people that are willing

to hear us out! There is literally a mosque on every street corner! We

were on a bus this week and I would say there were about 30 people on

this bus, Elder Livingston and I were the only ones without hijaab

on! Half way through the bus ride these  5 guys turned around and

started asking us all the questions about Jesus and the difference

between him and Mohamed! It was really cool we gave them a Book of

Mormon and they gave us a quaran! I have learned a lot

about the Muslim religion this past week! They are such a beautiful

lovely people! To be honest I was quite scared because of alot of the

things I'd seen on the tv before coming out! We have been let in by a

few Muslim families this week and they were so generous they would

offer to feed us and we're so loving to each other and so open and

receptive! Such devoted and faithful people! They love there families

and are very close with one another! To be fair some of the families I

met this week were a lot better than some of the families that had the

true and living gospel in Grimsby!  Remember these are people we

knocked on their door and they just let us in! It's kind of sad

because of safety rules we are not really aloud to teach these

people! One of the families fed us this stuff called  'chicken tikka ' it

was soooo good! I love the food here!

The culture here is so amazing I love it so much! My new companions

name is Elder Livingston he is a stud! He plays football for byu! Good

guy we get along just great! I really can not complain! He is from

Idaho! Missionary work is so great l love it so much! I've

come to love it so much! It makes me feel closer to my savior! I know

this is his work! I know this is his gospel! Sometimes while I'm out

 knocking on doors, or just after a long hard day! I feel I catch a

glimpse of some of the work our Savior did while he was on the earth and I

feel in my heart the love he has for his children.  It is as if

in that moment he is next me! Family I love you and miss you so much!  Love Elder Tuita

Elder Tuita

April 10, 2017: 2 New Baptisms

Hey family.... I love you guys so much and hope everything is going good at

home! Sorry this letter will be kind of short! All is well in the land

of Grimsby! I miss you guys a ton though it looks like you guys had a

ton of fun this week! Very jealous! I miss you guys so much! It seems

like an eternity since we said good bye, but I love you guys and know

it's all worth it! You have to keep me updated on how all you

are doing! This week went really good! This week in the mission we had 7

baptisms scheduled and only 2 of them went through! The adversary is

real! We also got to see Ben pass the sacrament this week it was

great! The flowers are out and it's so beautiful I'll send some

pictures I love you guys and hope you have a great week!  Love Elder Tuita

April 3, 2017: Beauty of England

Family and friends,

.

As always I send my love and my dearest regards from England and hope

that everyone is enjoying this special time of the year! We are just

hitting the spring time here in England and there are very few words

that I could use to describe resplendence and exquisite beauty that is

in the air right now! Things are going pretty good here Grimsby! We

have alot of crazy things happen lately! One thing I've learned

through it all is that God will never break a promise.

Our investigators are doing very well! We have about 20 that we're

working with right now! Five of them could be baptised right now, but

there just not married or have word of wisdom issues! We also have

about 3 families we are working with right now! One of them has two

little girls that are Josie and Leah's age! Every time we go over they

put on a little dancing show! It all is so tough watching them because

it always makes me feel like I'm watching my little sisters! We have

been so busy lately it's nuts!  I guess it's a good thing though! One

thing that I love so much is  the variety of culture we are teaching

right now! We have people from Africa, Poland, china, Germany, Latvia

, czec republic, Ireland, Russia its crazy the cultures and stuff are

very different but is so cool to be around them all!  They all have

different traditions and stuff they do, it's great! I love you guys and

hope you all have a great week!  Elder Tuita

March 20, 2017 I made Pani-popo!!

Hey family and friends,

I hope you guys had a great week! Things are still going pretty great in Grimsby! I do miss you guys a ton!  I never have time to write because we are teaching investigators on our p-days now as we are really busy! I guess i really can't complain though! My pani-popo turned out great! Cooking with yeast is quite easy mom!! I do not know what you are talking about? haha- anyways  I woul love to coninue on about my investagators and how theyare progressing but its tough, alot of things don't go our way! We do have our often miracles but I just dont want you guys to get your hopes up on these people and its just easier if I separate missionary life from you guys, it really takes the stress off! The church is very different over here especially in Grimsby! Everybody in the ward are converts except for the bishop and a few others! So priesthood lacks alot! The people that are strong are great people but apart from the bishop a few members and the missionaries, we are the only ones that really minister to the ward! It's tough but I've grown and the Lord has really given me the strenth to be able to continue on! I feel so close to him! Everyday when we start getting yelled out or being mocked I remember what the savior has been through and it makes me feel in that moment just a I've learned that it makes it so much easier when we can come to love him more perfectly! You look at all the great missionaries in the Book of Mormon and its because the power of the word was embedded in their hearts! As i continue on, push a little harder, feast on the scriptures, I have felt his word, his enabling power start to sink inside my heart! it heals my soul and fills my body and mind with so much light! I love you guys and hope you have a great week!   Love elder Tuita

March 13: Shortest Letter Ever!

Hey family I don't have much time to write this week but it has been

good! We just had transfers and I am staying in Grimsby again it is

all good though! I'm sorry for the lack of time to write but we had

some lessons today and I am only getting time to write now! This week

was good though! Paul and Gale went to the temple the other day it was

really good they told me they had a wonderful time! After church this

Sunday I did a fashion shoot for the YSA it was pretty funny! Other

than that it went really good love you guys!

Elder Tuita

March 6, 2017 Giving Blessings

Dear family and friends,

Today marks 6 months of being out in the mission field! It seems like

I just left to the MTC yesterday! I have loved every minute of it

though! I have come to love it here in England so much!  The people

here have really grown on me and I have learned to love them so much!

This week was so busy! I honestly don't know sometimes how I am even

able to function! We had a whole bunch of lessons this week, we have

been traveling everywhere for meetings, we had tons of things

to plan for! We are literally so busy sometimes we just don't eat!

Which really gets Elder Mcctavish, because man that kid is always

hungry! I had the privilege of giving a lot of blessings this week

which was really cool! I always get so nervous before I give them

because I always fear I will not know what to say! I remember though I

got half way through one and immediately the fear went away! It's

amazing the power you feel when you give one! You can always feel the

love that Heavenly Father has for that person! Anyway everything is

going great I miss you all and hope you all have a great week!

Elder Tuita

February 27, 2017: Embarking on the Lords errand.

Hope all is well family and friends!

This week went by really fast! I can't believe how fast time is going! In a week it will have marked 6 months of being out in the mission field! It's crazy! The past couple days have been very emotional as I've pondered and reflected about some of the experiences that have occurred over the  previous 6 months. I remember the day President Hinton set me apart, I didn't really know what to expect?   You see, since I was young I always knew and had made the descion to serve a mission. I had always planned though to go to a year of school first! For some reason though, after lots of fasting and prayer, I knew the the Lord wanted me to serve right after graduating high school! I didn't know why but I just knew I needed to go! Sitting here now writing this to you I am glad I did because now, I understand something that i didnt understand before I came out on my mission. I've come to understand and know my Savior better! I remember when my grandpa Sioasi passed away, it was tough because I felt I really didn't get know my grandfather as well as I would have liked to. I felt I really didn't know him it at all!  When we went down for his funeral service I was able to read stories of him, see pictures of him! One thing I did know he loved was music,  and I remember my cousin Benson playing a jazz version of "I am a child of God", the spirit was so strong! It's almost as if I felt my grandpas presence there!  I felt connected to him because I felt like I understood and knew him better because we were doing those things he loved! Anytime my brother would play the piano, I could feel my grandpas spirit so strongly!  Being out on my mission has done the same thing but it has helped me come to understand my Savior more! Before my mission I felt like I was close to him and that he was there for me and knew and cared for me! But being out on a mission has helped me to come to understand and know him even more! Being in this capacity as a missionary we are constantly embarked on the Lords errand! Doing these things just like my grandpa has made me feel closer and come to know him better! 

Love elder Tuita