I'd like to start off this email with a lovely picture of a
real 'Hot Dog' (If you know what I mean😏)
So this week we did a vilo hoa (exchanges) to one of the most
legit areas in our zone. I love exchanges always so much learned from these
Elders in our Zone. I think I always learn the most from those who most
recently came into the mission. They have a special fire and spirit about them
that makes me so excited to get back to my own area. Also got to join in on
that wards Relief Society aniversary celebration (is that even a thing anywhere
else?? Cause it's pretty dang big here). We thought we were going to be
teaching investigators at it, but that fell through so they made us stay to eat
and watch the 2 Elders, Samoan investigators fire dance which was pretty dang
cool to be honest. And also a Tongan lady sing a Whitney Houston song (don't ask why)
which might have been even better.
Funny story for the week: Most of Saturday was spent doing
baptism interviews for one of the DLs in our zone. I did 3, and that was
supposed to be it for the baptism. Tonga has this bad habit of planning the
interviews ON the day of the baptism, so it's always an awkward moment if the
interview doesn't go to well. After those interviews we came home and
started our weekly planning and then at 4:30 (baptism was scheduled for 5) we
get a call from those Elders saying that they have another interview for us to
do... Their area is about 10 min away from ours so we make for the door
and speed down there. As my companion was doing the interview (by now it's
4:59 (baptism is still scheduled for 5...)) I'm standing there talking to the
Elders, when all of a sudden he points behind me to a little girl in a white
dress and says, "oh, she needs to get interviewed too" ...😐.
I love Tonga!!
Another random highlight: Member walks up to us at church
with a little boy and says, "Hey this kids parents who are members forgot
to baptize him when he was 8 (he's 9) so you guys can teach him and baptize
him." So we go to his parents, they tell us the same thing, but when his
dad told us his birthday we did the math and realized that he was still 8.
And then at a later visit when they pulled out the kids birth certificate we
realized that he was still 7 lololol. Toonngggaa!!!
Another epic Sunday of speaking/playing the 5 hymns in
sacrament meeting (without practicing before hand)/teaching the less-active
class. I always feel so good after those Sundays were we get to participate so
much.
Update on our old lady investigator: Her family often tells
us things that she wont tell us straight up, and so they told us about how she
always wakes up before everyone else to read the Book of Mormon and how she
tells them that she feels her life is changing through reading that fantastic
book. Such a miracle to hear of investigators having those kind of experiences,
it makes me so happy and warm inside :)
As I said before, we live at the Area authority 70 of Tongas
house, one night his son was fafanga (dinner) which also happened to be the same
night when the 70's sister was throwing a party for having just recently
found/met her 50 year old son that she adopted away at birth and hadn't met
since. Pretty dang crazy to have witnessed that moment. So this man and
his daughter got to meet all of there cousins and eat Tongan food, and we were
awkwardly sitting in the corner. Coolest part for me was seeing this man
who isn't a member get emotional talking about how much he admires this families
commitment to family. He might not have known that that is because of the
Gospel and the truth is it taught, but he sure felt it's power. Another very
happy and warm moment:)
Yesterday had the lovely opportunity as Zone Leaders to
figure out why random people were calling us, threatening to call the police on
our missionaries... that basically took all day.... yeah I won't go any
deeper into that....
Well... Zone Conference is on Friday! Super pumped always
so much to learn at those things and even more to learn when you get to do the
teaching!
Love you all! Keep me updated with the deets of your life so
we aren't strangers when I get home!
2 Nephi 5:27 <----- a.k.a The Gospel! 😁
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