Dear Family,
It's great to hear that you guys are back on your feet after running the marathon. It sounds as if you guys are having a great week. Busy as usual. Dad was the book Jesus the Christ really written inside of the temple? And as for the topic of beating people, That is one of the biggest problems of Samoa, everyone beats on somebody. All parents beat there kids and all older siblings beat the younger siblings. and its not just small beatings. I have seen some nasty wounds and scars. And if you ask them about it, they would just say that it is a part of their culture. Just yesterday was stake conference and the presiding authority Elder Dundfeild addressed the stake on the very topic saying that there are better ways to discipline their kids than to beat and hit them. But Just hearing it wont change their habits that they have made over the past fifty years. This is just one of the aspects of the Samoan culture that I really don't like, and that the church is trying to fix.
We had Interviews with our mission president this week. I love President Tolman so much. He is the best thing that has happened to this mission since I have been here. Not just because he opened email and other good things. He is the pushing the work here so hard. And he and his wife are trying so hard to get to know every missionary personally. I can honestly say that he has changed my mission experience. He is truly a man called of God.
Well I love all of you. I promise you a long letter next week.
Elder Fawcett
E aga'i i luma le galuega a le Atua
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