Great meal
Elder Mataele and I
Pancakes
Today's lunch
Helping weave something
Hello my beloved friends and family!
Well, my first week back in Tonga has been straight up
crazy. Like so much more has happened this week than any other week for me in
my mission haha. Soo heres a little tour of my week:
-First off I had my first hamburger in probably 9 months😄😄😏😇(it
had 3 patties on it...🙈)
-We alllmosttt got to teach a lesson in the Area 70's (he
covers all of Tonga) house, but it wasn't lava
-We tried to give a drunk guy with surprisingly good English
a Book of Mormon and as soon as he grabbed it he threw it and started screaming
about how it burned his skin and he needs to throw it away and then started
cussing at us haha
-We had pancakes too....😇😏😰😳🙉
-We found 10.. yes 1-0 filled out yet not turned iN baptismal records in our house! I don't get how that happens!?!
-Found out that another Elder Kalanite served in Folaha like
2 years ago
-BIG change in Misiona Tonga: we can now choose if we want
to wear vala fakapalangi (white person clothes (pants/shoes/suit)) or just the
normal, traditional vala fakatonga (tupenu/ta'ovala/kafa)
-In our areas there is TONS to do, which I am soo happy
about, and the members actually WANT to talk to us here!😂😂😂
-We have a golden investigator here in Folaha. Its this 15
year old girl who is soo smart and super humble and willing to seek out the
truth. We've only been able to teach her once so far, but she's wayy pau (solid)
-We found a drunk guy in the other little town we cover,
Longoteme, and in his drunk slur he told us we need to help him because hes
really less active haha, and luckily church was the next day so we told him to
be ready at 9:30AM and we'd be there to go with him, and he actually came!
-Being a zone leader doesn't make things too different except
we have a car and we get random calls everyday with peoples random needs that
we have to go and do haha
But, the craziest thing that's happened here this week,
happened during the 2nd fight that went down in Folaha in the past 7 days. The
first one we weren't around to see, but the second one was right next door.
Here's the short version: we were helping my comps auntie (she lives 2 houses
down from us) move a little wagon by her house when we heard some yelling
coming from the house in between ours and my comps aunties. We look over and
see this couple that lives there swearing and yelling at each other from
opposite sides of the yard. The family was trying to stop the lady from yelling
stuff and the man was standing by himself holding a brick in his hand. My comp
saw that and ran up to him and started trying to talk to him and calm him down
and get the brick from out of his hand which he did. Things were calming down
for about a minute and a half, when these 2 cars pull up on the street. The guy
driving gets out of the car and starts walking up to the guy and my comp, and
says, "hey, toko.." I thought at this point that he was going to try
and help calm the situation down.. but he ends up taking the first punch at the
husband and they start full on fighting, then the guy driving the second car
jumps out and joins in on the fight. Turns out the 2 guys in the car are the
wife's brothers who do not like her husband and they were there to end the
argument...but not in a good way. So there they were, 3 guys, the husband who
is in wayy good shape, and the 2 brothers of the wife which one was reallyy fat
and the other was reallyy old, all trying to beat the heck out of each other.
It was really bad. They were using metal pipes, random pieces of wood on the
floor, and big rocks all over the place, and the only one trying to stop the
fight was my comp! What a stud. I was trying to make sure the group of kids
gathered around were safe haha. But at sometime during the middle of the fight,
the wife passed out cold on the ground, which I didn't even notice. All the
other ladies that were in the house were trying to get her to wake up and
crying like crazy. I only noticed that when my comp yells at me to run and grab
my oil from my bag so that we can give her a blessing. So I ran to get it, we
ran up to the lady and knelt by her head. It wasn't until this point, that I
realized that she wasn't even breathing. I quickly anointed with the oil, and
right after my companion gave a very short blessing. The second after he said,
"Pea oku ma pehe kiate koe ke ke fakamo'ui koe" or basically "We
say unto you to be healed", she took a huge gasp of air and started trying
to sit up and started shaking like crazy and saying that she was super cold,
but after 10-15 minutes she was totally fine.
I have no doubt in the priesthood power that we, as members
of the church have access too and this experience only adds to my
testimony.
Man, that took forever to type and not sound like a FOB soo
Im outa time, but I still love you guys!!
Ofa lahi kiate kimoutolu taki taha!
-Elder Nite
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