Malo e Lelei Moutolu! This week has been very
roller coaster-y. We have had some awesome teaching opportunities and can
really start to see progress in the area, on the other hand, some days have
been so slow with not much for us to do in this tiny place.
Ima start off with last Tuesday, We had Zone Conference
which was awesome! Pres Tui'one and his wife as well as Pres Fetani (one of his
councilors) and his wife, and also the AP's and the STL's all came down to
Ha'apai for it. Me and Despain were assigned to do a teaching in it, but they
changed the schedule right before so we didn't have to. Funny little Misiona
Tonga fact for you: Pres Fetani always brings his hair clippers to Zone Conference and
afterwards, if he sees a missionary that needs a haircut, he gives it to them
right then and there at the end of the meeting! Luckily I haven't needed
one yet bcause he straight up buzzes the whole head. Right now I'm 'meimei
poko' (almost bald) anyway from my haircut from my Zone Leader smh. At the
Zone Conference President told us that whichever companionship gets 3 baptisms
by the end of the month will get flown back to Tonga for a temple trip. That
sounds awesome so me and Despain are trying to accomplish that but I don't know if we will be able to :(
The last little while we have been teaching this lady and
her family and we feel very confident that we will have the opportunity to
baptize them within the next couple weeks! Our last lesson, we left them with a
Book of Mormon, and she told us she wants to get baptized, but first she wants
to read and get an answer, which is totally fine! This work is centered around
the Book of Mormon. My testimony of that book has increased so much over the
past couple of weeks. Probably because we started this 90 read the Book of Mormon thing. But it is just awesome. It is the best evidence we could ask for of Gods love
for his children and for a restored and true church. LOVE IT!
We went to a house this week, and we thought we had talked
to the people there before and they just said to come back another day, so we
were coming back to talk to them. We asked the lady inside (which we never even
saw, she was hiding behind the wall, knitting) we ask if there would be a time
we could talk and she yelled, "Ikai!!"(No!!!) Despain said that was
the meanest thing he's heard anyone say to him, just asking if we could talk. That's how nice the people are here though. That's the first outright objection
I've heard my whole mission. Everyone says, "Oh, I'm busy right now, I'll let you know when I have time to talk." That's pretty much us getting
turned down. It's awesome how much they respect the missionaries though.
Oh by the way, we found a golden investigator this week!! It stared
with our fafanga(the member that feeds us(dinner)) taking us to one of the 3 restaurants
in Ha'apai because he is the Governor of Ha'apai(thats a big deal aight haha)
So we ate there and it was so good. We end up talking to the owner which is one
of the nicest ladies I have ever met! She grew up in America so her English is
just as good as her Tongan. We talk for a little bit, she tells us to come back
on Sunday for us to talk, and she will make us dinner... What investigator
makes you dinner?? Haha soo awesome. On Sunday we go, we eat what she makes
us(which was delicious btw. I havent had eggs in weeks.) And we start to
talk to her and answer her questions, and she was soo accepting of everything,
she tells us about her sister who joined the church and she notices how much
happier she is, and shes curious about why. Anywayysss, she wants us to come to
her restaurant every Wednesday for her to make us food and to teach her the
lessons. Safe to say.. we love her.
This week we were walking down a road and this guy stops us
and hands us $20 which was a miracle haha cause we were pretty broke. But, we
start talking to him and we find out that Troy Polamalu calls him up to make
him pork whenever he's in the States. Haha the poly connections are hilarious!
Last thing: yes even Tonga is talking about Trump. We get
asked our thoughts about it like every other day haha.
PICS:
The cloads and sunsets are insane, like everyday day, its so
cool!
One of the pics you should be able to see Kao, and Tofua.
Kao is a volcano that is huge! You can go all the way to Ha'afeva(like a 3 hour
boat ride towards it) and it looks just as big.
Wooahh sheesh sorry for the long email!
Ofaa lahi ats everyone!
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