The MTC is great as always! I am loving learning here, literally ALL day haha. Most days we have our 3, 3 hour blocks of classes and it's really kinda rough to focus all the time. My district is all homies and we love joking around with each other. We have the biggest Branch in the whole MTC! I think with like 150. It's HUGE! So that makes it way hard to get to know a lot of people in it.
I'm pretty much tired 24/7 because we are
allwwaayss doing something haha! One of our districts favorite pass times is
singing. Our favorite is Ofa 'i Api. Which is love at home. We sing it
before almost every class haha.
Me and my comp have already taught 4 lessons in
all Tongan to our "investigator" Lopeti who is really one of our
teachers Brother Tautuaa. He is one of the coolest guys I've ever met and he is
super smart with gospel related stuff and life skills kinda things. My comp is
super good at memorizing stuff and he's also way good at just thinking of
scriptures that could help our investigator so there are times in our lessons
when he will just start explaining things and I'll be a little confused, but I'm really good at putting together sentences and explaining stuff a little
better so it all works out! Bro Tautuaa is kinda strict but also one of the funniest
people. We have 2 other teachers, Bro Deilh and Sis Fotu. They are both way
cool. All of them are only like 2 or 3 years off their mission, so it gets me
really excited to see what I could be like in 4 or 5 years haha. They are way
good examples.
The food here was good like the first week but I am quickly
getting real tired of it. I am not setting myself up to stay in good shape
haha. The other day I had 10 cups of milk. Haha I felt terrible
afterwards.
Some funny language stuff:
In Tongan there is fakalelei which means
Atonement and fakalele which means diarrhea. Luckily, I haven't made that mistake yet but it could happen real easy lol.
The other day this kid in our district said in
this prayer in Tongan: Dear Heavenly Father, I am fat!
Haha he meant to say Thank you, but one little
switch of a word and it's a totally different meaning. One of our favorite words
is fakahela, which means annoying haha.
Spiritual Things:
The biggest thing I've learned this week is the
power of Prayer. It is SO important to include prayer in everything we do. Our
first 2 lessons we didn't pray before the lesson and they were ok but not great.
After that I was like, Holy cow! how come we aren't praying before hand? So we
started doing that and our lessons have been great! Our last one went for 40
min, so none of the other companions got tobe teacher that day! Another cool
thing, in our room we have the 2 companionships from our district (me, my comp, Elder Kraft and Elder St. clair) Elder St Clair had a great idea on like the
4th day that we should all give our companion a blessing. It was way cool and
we all felt the spirit. I was pretty dang nervous because it was only my second
blessing but it went way good.
Everyday I pray for Me'afoaki 'o e lea, which
is The Gift of Tongues. Our branch president told us to ask our families to also
pray to help us with that, so if you all could help with that, it would be
amazing! The spirit is so strong here and I love being here! Tongan is
coming along fine, even though I often get frustrated with myself that it's not
coming along like i want it to, Tui Kia Sisu Kalaisi (Faith in Christ) is so
important. Do your absolute best and God will make up the rest. I love all you
guys so much! Thanks for all the support! Let me know how you guys are doing, I
miss everyone tons and think about y'all all the time!
OFA ATU
-Elder Grant
Lots of pics and most of them are totally
random haha
No explanations on these pictures
Sister Aubrey Taylor, Elder Connor Grant and their companions
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