It's interesting working in areas where just about everyone
has had constant interaction with the church basically their whole lives, or
places where you know like the last 3 sets of missionaries knocked ever door in
the area, and yet somehow there is still work to do haha!
Man, super happy moment this Sunday when we got to meet,
probably the most prepared person I've ever met out here. We taught him in our
bishops office with his wife (already a member). He already wants to join the
church but doesn't know too much about it. Our first questions we asked, just
trying to make convo, "So you want to join the church?" He quietly
responded not too confident in himself, "Io, ko e faka'amu ia (Yeah, that's
the hope)" I knew right then that he was hecka pau. The lesson went way
good, and at the end he even thanked us for taking our time to share with
him(like it was inconvenient) our message and to help him become a member. Man,
only met him once but I love this guy to death.
Besides that lesson, this week wasn't too successful as far
as teaching our investigators (live out of town/drunk/hiding from us)
My favorite hobby right now is interviewing other
missionaries investigators, even though most of them have been pretty young,
its so fun to me to help those kids get ready for baptism.
Another impromptu parade went down this week when Tonga beat
some other team again taking them into the final 4 #MateMaaTonga. People have 0
self control when there country wins a sports event, I have learned. The parade
basically includes everyone running to their cars as soon as the game is over,
getting inside/on top of/hanging on the outside of there cars, painted red and
waving flags, blasting terrible Tongan remixed music out of the car and then
driving to town yelling stuff about Tonga hahaha. Favorite thing to watch. But
then it stinks because our village is empty, just us hangin around with
everyone out partying, so we go home and read the scriptures lol.
Random event of the week: this morning me and my companion
stared in awe as we saw 10 dogs kill an innocent baby pig. Yes, of course, we
tried to save it, but it was far too late..RIP
-Elder G
I'm squatting, but I can still get up
Elder Mataele and I
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