Elder Connor Grant's Adventures in Tonga: THIRTEENTH WEEK IN TONGA, HIHIFO BOOII,PANGAI

Guys!!! It's been one good week down here in the Islands for sure!! We started out last P-day having donuts at our man Fe'aos house, (he works for the church and takes us on the boats when we need to go to different small islands). That was my last night being tokotolu (3 people) with the zones which was a little sad because I loved being with those fools, but being with Despain and having an area again has been awesome!

On Tuesday, we dropped off all the Elders on Ha'apai that were getting transferred at the airport. While we where there, this plane landed and like 20 missionaries coming from Tonga on their way to Vava'u got off, and we were not expecting that but it was awesome to see Missionaries I knew from my days in Tongatapu. I got to talk with the sister that replaced me and Elder Nonu in Sopu and she got to tell me a little bit about how our investigators and someone we baptized were doing. That was so cool to hear that they are all doing good!

Later on Tuesday me and Despain got dropped off in our new area! Hihifo booii! We spent like 5 hours cleaning the whole MQ. That's something I've learned from Despain so far..always deep clean your house when you show up to a new place. So we did that, stole a couple of chairs from our church building because there was only one there. And now our MQ feels like home. Hung up a picture that my parents sent me which is awesome!

Wednesday morning we got a call from the mission office asking us to run to the zones MQ because their phone wasn't working and they needed to get an elder to the airport in 20 min., so we started running in the rain at like 6:45AM. Their MQ is like 2 or 3 miles away. I know that sounds really close which it is, but on an Island, it feels really far. The Tongan peoples idea of far is much different. But luckily we got picked up by a member that was driving by.

The next couple of days we spent trying to get to know our members and the people in the area. We went to the church and got on google maps and printed out a large map of our area so we can mark where all of our members and everyone live which has been way helpful. Friday, we ended up walking to the main city in Pangai to get some stuff for our house, on the way back we past a 7th day Adventist church and we remembered about a man we heard about who wanted to hear from missionaries for the last month and we knew he lived close to that church building. So we walked by it, asked a lady that was sitting on her front porch if she knew where he lived. Turned out he lived across the street, so we walked over there and luckily he was home! We walked in and as soon as I saw him, I could feel the spirit and I had such a good feeling about him. We talked with him for a little bit and set up a time to meet with him later in the week. Unfortunately when we went to meet with him, his neighbor said that he was out on a different island for a couple of days. So hopefully we will be able to meet with him this upcoming week!

NEW YEARS! Man its so weird to be in 2017! President asked us not to do anything special on new years eve, to remember the purpose we are out here, and that if we were in the house by 9 and in bed by 10:30, than 2017 would be a great year for us. So that's what we did! Me and Despain have been listening to a lot of Truman G Madsen and John Bytheway recently in the mornings and nights. Both are awesome speakers and I highly recommend them!

Hope everyone is pumped for the new year and has a great week!

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