Hey Mom and Dad, Its not letting me send it out to everyone
like normal, so I'll just send it to you guys and you can send it out to who ever!
Hey guys!
NGAUE KE IKUNA (Work to Overcome)
The funniest thing this week was hearing a Tongan describe
to us drive-thrus from the time he went on a trip to America.
"We talked into a box, I couldn't see anybody, but there
was someone talking to us. We drove up to a window and they gave us food! I asked
my brother were it came from and he said, Its from the back!!"
He was amazed by freeways too. Its crazy the things
that seem to normal to us at home, but then you come to Tonga and you realize
what the world is really like.
I met one of the most humble people ever this week. He's not
a member but kept telling us, "This is not just my house, this is your
house too. If your hungry, just walk into the kitchen and it there's food, then
we will eat it, and if there's not then we will drink water together." He's
the man and they made us To Pai (dough and coconut shavings in hot watery milk
type stuff) this week. Its a pretty poor meal but I really like it. We are
trying to teach their son who is the Stake Presidents nephew.
We are homies now with this couple from Australia who are
way nice. The wife is from here but her white husbands from Australia. They
gave us juice, Dorritos, and American sausages. They started to drink so we set
up an appointment with them and headed out.
We see way more white people here than in my last area.
It's pretty nice. This van of tourists past us and was yelling "Elderrss!!
Work hard!!" I think those are the first tourists I've seen that are
members.
So it's been kinda hard finding stuff to do. Bishop told us
that he wants us to only go knocking doors twice a week and to go with a
priesthood holder in the ward which kinda makes going out complicated. We were
kinda struggling this week trying to know how we can get members more involved
in the work and get more of them on board to help us out. On Saturday the
Second Councilor was telling us how he wants to go out with us every week and
how he is going to fast every time, which was a BIG answer to our prayers,
knowing that hes got our back and is going to help us out.
We made it down to the little village we cover, Utulei, this
week. It is TINY. Got to meet a couple of families there, only 2 investigators
there but we are hopefully gonna be teaching a family there soon.
We ate Nutela this week and I just about fell out of my
chair.
Hopefully things will speed up a bit more this week! This
area has a lot of potential but the members here are really not into the work,
but Bishop is doing all he can to try and get them moving and we are doing our
part. Just gotta keep on pushing through!!
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