Sunday, August 13, 2017

WEEK 40 IN TONGA, PANGAI MOTU

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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