Saturday, February 25, 2017

20TH WEEK IN TONGA, HIHIFO

Oatmeal is Ifo

Well there's not a whole ton new this week to be had!  The work is really picking up, but people can only meet at night, so the nights are awesome, but during the day is still so slow because of how small the area is. 

This last week we taught a lesson to a ex-conman from NZ this week.  He has like perfect English and is very deep in religion, the convos get very interesting. 

We met the owner for the bakery in Ha'apai and his English is pretty good too, but he's pretty old and loves to go on and on.  We listened about his days working for the airline, being the Rowing team coach and him going to Utah for like and hour and a half. We tried to leave like 3 times but he doesn't stop.

One day this week while it was raining, we were chilling under a tree,  I saw a coconut and asked my comp if he wanted to drink it.  I guess he didn't because he threw it right at the tree I was sitting right next to. Coconut EVERYWHERE.  It's a miracle my shirt is still white because coconut wrecks clothes.

Yesterday, we ended up speaking in sacrament meeting again. The funny thing was, I could determine how good my Tongan was, all off of the face of one our members.  When he would start looking uncomfortable and confused, I knew it was getting real bad.  But then he would look really interested, and I'd get all confident.. and it'd go down hill again. Oh yeah between, our Stake President is a G and wore a red, green, and blue belt to church yesterday. 

Our members are really happy with the work that is getting done and people they are seeing coming to church, in our meeting yesterday, they were telling us how grateful they were for that, and it was awesome.  Love the people in this area!  We have 3 baptisms set up for this coming Saturday, 3 for the Saturday after that, and we should be getting a couple more after that, before the end of the transfer.  Hopefully they will all go through! 

We were able to set up 2 different appointments this up coming week with ministers for other religions! We'll see how that goes.

If you translate some of the peoples names here, they have some really funky meanings, for example:

Tonga'onevai: Tongan Sand Water
Vaivela: Hot water
Fakalua: To make throw up (lol, this was a little girls name)
and our bishops name translated is, Willy Fishermen

All righty, love all you guys, have an awesome week!

-Eleta Kalanite


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