Elder Connor Grant's Adventures in Tonga: WEEK 43 IN TONGA, PANGAI MOTU

Whats Happening This'avy??

Hey guys! The last week has been good! Here's just a little bit of whats happened:

We gave our shirts to one of our members for her to clean them, and we get them back 100% BLUE. Tongans do that because they think it look better but for real though.. its kinda ugly. Good thing it all came out during the wash last week. Phew!

Me and my comp were a little sick a couple of days. Just kinda a weird cold thing not fun though.

We got a random email from a Sister working in the Philippians who asked us to go and teach her family here in Pangai! We went to their house and took him a print out of her testimony and some pictures. We set up an appointment but it hasn't been able yet. I think it will be way cool though!

I continue to be blowing kids minds with my magic tricks (just a little rock trick that Chad showed me) . Now, where ever we go, the kids will stop us and make me do the tricks. Not gonna lie its getting a little annoying but who knows.. its actually helping us meet new people, so I'm down with it!

We got to help during a little primary activity which was way fun. Taught the kids Red light green light and Sharks and Minnows. I truly love these kids so much. From the little kids that love playing little games with us up the the young adults. We walked into the Sunday School class for the kids this Sunday and the teacher was just sitting there staring at the kids talking, so I totally knew what was coming and he asked us to teach the rest of the hour. I love teaching so much! We taught a little lesson about the Atonement that involved one of the youth doing around 200 push ups in like 10 min. Felt kind bad, but whatcha gonna do when you have no time to prepare a lesson!

We had an awesome Musical Fireside that not really anyone came to. We tried to remind everyone to bring an invite, but not much success :/ It was way fun though! Faleao sang a solo and we sang a song with some of the primary kids. About half of the songs were VERY off tune, but we very much appreciated the members efforts and willingness to prepare songs to sing. They're awesome!

We got transfers yesterday and we're staying!! Happyyy newsss!

I might have mentioned an Australian couple we met in the last couple weeks. These guys are so nice, we've eaten at there house probably like 4 times. They have lots of thoughts about the Mormon church and its differences to the other churches here. We've gotten about half way through one lesson with them but they talk SO much. Literately every convo with them turns into like 2 hours long, but he has brought up some crazy random thoughts he has, but turns out, is actually doctrine that we believe in. Like out of now where, he said, "Where to Polynesians come from?" and then started talking about how they could have only come from South America and how they resemble Indians so much and I was just thinking about Hagoth in the BOM the whole time. I wanted to say something, but I realized we should probably teach them a couple other things first. Some day hopefully we will actually be able to teach them about the church without the randomest of side conversations that take us up until our curfew!

Kinda got a slap in the face this week when we were talking to our excommunicated homie about our schedule and how we normally study at about 11 because that's when it starts to get hot out, and he started to talk about how back in his day that's when they would do a little service project every day and then study (He was Misiona Tonga too) and I realized that I should have been doing that my whole mission in the slow areas, even though I don't know a single companionship that does that, this week I want us to try it. That'll be the key to meeting even more people out here!

Yikkess, we gotta run mom and dad! I love you guys! Thanks for your guys emails! Hope you guys had fun on your trip! Have another awesome week!

-Elder Kalanite