DAANNGG It has been a very long time since I've been able to
send
anything! So sorry guys, the net here in our Stake is down
sO much
and not very many missionaries have been able to net out
here. LAME!!
But hey, I have a little bit of time right now to send
something out!
(Mom, Dad I'll probably just send this to you because it's not
letting
me pick everyone, so you can send it out to the family and
peeps.)
SO, that girl you saw in the picture mom (that was standing
too close
to us) is our Bishops little sister, her name is
Sini (that is his
wife who friended you on FB) and yes, we baptized her!
So...quick run down.. we've been teaching her since last
transfer, and
things were going way good and we had a baptismal date set
up, but
that changed once her parents found out we were teaching
her (they are
hard core Weslians) so we just kinda tried to help her out
the best we
could without actually talking to her ever, we didn't
see her for
probably a good 2 weeks (which is pretty crazy when you live
in a city
this size) because her parents grounded her even though she
is 19 and
is technically old enough to be making these kinda decisions
for her
self. So there wasn't much that we could do. Then one day me and
Elder Harmon decided to try this
thing where you each pray
individually first, and then together, and
then you each
individually pick 3 streets based off of 'hunches' that come
to your
mind, after that you go and visit the ones that you got in
common. So
we tried that, and we got 1 area in common. So we decided to
get out
and visit/walk around those houses in that area. We walk out
there
and guess who we run into! Yuppppp Sini. We walking from
their
house at the top of the hill down to our bishops house. We
talked to
her for a little bit and asked how she was doing. Basically
came to
the conclusion that we will just text her BoM chapters for
her to read
while she is still grounded. So, she walked away and we
continued on
our visit. We ended up at one of our appointments which
turned out not
to be able. We went there and she was watching hers and her
neighbors
babies who both wouldn't stop crying. We literally sat there
for like
30-45 min trying to help her calm the babies down but they
just
wouldn't stop, so we decided to leave. We headed up to our
house and
was talking to our neighbors, when at that precise moment we
saw
bishop and Sini walking up to the church and bishop waved us
down to
come. The cool thing is, if we weren't there right then,
bishop
probably wouldn't have had us come over to the church
building. So we
went up there and it turned out that Sini just needed help
with typing
something for her homework. So we helped with that real
fast, and
then we ended up teaching her in the clerks office. While we
were
talking she was just like, you know what, can I just be
baptized this
Saturday? (2 days from then) we were just like, Yeah,
of
course!! So we taught her that night (Thursday), then the
next
day (Friday) we had our DL come down to do the interview and
then
baptized her on Saturday. It was way cool to see how that
all worked
out and how everything came together for that to be able to
happen!
Other news. We had that meeting with Kolipoki! The guys
Tongan is
still pretty dang good for how old he is. He gave his whole
talk in
Tongan which was way good! He's here working on the sequal to
The Other
Side of Heaven. This one will be about his time as Mission
President
in Tonga. Way pumped to see that!
We (me and Harmon) have had BOMB numbers the last couple of
weeks. We
had 6 investigators at our Ward Conference which is a ton! Especially
since yesterday at church we only had 8 members at the
beginning of
sacrament meeting.
We are still trying to work towards the Town Officer in Longomapu. We
thought things were going good, but he kinda told our bishop
that they
have no intentions of switching churches. BUT that ain't
gonna stop us!
The thing, here in Tonga, the LDS church is probably the
most hated.
Literally no one really cares if you convert to any other
religion,
but if like a member of Siasi Tonga , (church on Tonga)
converted to LDS,
all heck would brake loose. The siasi tonga ministers
wife would
go and start crying on there front lawn, people would give
them the
dirtiest of looks, and they would probably loose all their
friends.
Just goes to show the hold that Satan can get on people and
I take it
as a strong testimony of the truthfulness of this Church.
I would love to write more, but we need to go! It took a
while trying
to catch up and read all your guys emails! I'm 90% sure
we will be
able to net next week!
DAD! Happy Fathers day! I hope your day was awesome!
MOM! Thank you for caring so much for me! Sister Tui'one
called again
today and we told her we would be able to net today!
Thanks for all you guys do to me and all your support. Thank
you for
all the prayers and the thoughts, I know it has been helping
me. I
love all you guys more than I can say, and am trying so hard
to make
you guys proud.
Sorry for no pictures, the internet is too slow right now.
:(
OFA LAHI ATU
-Elder Kalanite
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