Elder Connor Grant's Adventures in Tonga: THIRD WEEK IN TONGA

Hey happy Pday everyone! Hope everyones week was tika! Mine was pretty normal. Starting with last pday, we ate a dog that we killed earlier in the da . Sorry to be so graphic but that's Tonga for yah. I won't attach the pictures! Its pretty good though. But yeah, Tonga is pretty crazy. Most of our week was us doing what we do, teaching and preaching so Ill just talk about some of the highlights and stuff that happened.

We taught a lesson in English to a girl from Ukraine, in Tonga. I don't really know how that happened but it was really cool!

I finally got my bike completely fixed. I was riding without foot pedals for a while there which was messing up my sandals. My comp crashed his bike into some bushes because he was trying to talk to someone on the phone while riding. Let that be an example to you kids!

We did some ngaue ofa(service) and afterwards the man gave us some chicken that still had an egg in it when it died. That kinda freaked me out.

Had my first Zone Conference this week which was really cool! On the way back home, our ZL hit a dog. Don't worry, the dog is OK.

This week I had some Ota(raw fish), Octopus, and Lou. All of those were way good! Lou is a Tongan food that they cook in tin foil, and it's pretty much meat wrapped up in spinach. It was really good but apparently it wasn't cooked enough, so it was making my mouth tingle and burn. I thought I was having an allergic reaction or something and for a good 5 minutes I thought I was dying, but we are all good.

Like every kid that we come across somehow knows my name but most of the adults still just call me palangi.

The people here are homies and always give us food. On our way out one morning we passed a store that is owned by a member I think and he just started opening a bunch of his products that he sells and giving it to us which was bomb!

We went to our fakasiasi which is where we go to the school nearby and just teach a short little lesson to a bunch of kids and then sing some hymns and play games with them. That was way fun, a lot of kids still stare at me and whisper to their friends. But I love all the kids, they are way funny.

This week we spent the night at 'Ataata. We spent the night at the bishops house there. I think the ward on 'Ataata is 15 people strong. That's how tiny it is. But we taught a couple lessons. One of them was to this family, we talked with the dad for a little bit and set up a time a little later to come back and teach. We found out that he was born and raised a member and that his wife was taught a little while back by some other missionaries. So we taught them the first lesson which went pretty good. When I was baring my testimony to him I started talking about how I know that our families can live and be happy together again after this life and I could tell as I was looking at him, that he knew these things where true and the spirit was way strong.

Well thats my week!