Dear home,
Thank you all for the emails you wrote
me this week. I really appreciate the love and support and I love hearing the
stories from home home? This week has been a blast. I didn't take any really
good pictures so I don't really have anything to send today. Kataki (sorry).
This week started out really funny, we were doing our morning study and we get
a call from president. I was like oh dang, here comes trouble! We answer the
phone, and president happened to tell us our food came to the office. We were
all keyed up for something major to happen and instead it was our mission
president telling us someone brought us food. I don't know, I thought it was
pretty funny. The next day he sent a text saying he wanted to interview us in
the half an hour, which was fun. Just a regular interview, nothing exciting.
We kind of just had a regular week, lots
of office work. I’m still organizing the office but I’m running out of room to
put stuff, so I don't know what I’m going to do, oh well. Our area is small but
we've been setting up days with people to bring kau fiefanongo (investigators)
so we can teach. We’ve had some success; I think we have a lesson on Sunday for
sure. The guy sounds a little crazy but that will just make it more fun ehh? We
plan to share about family history with him. Hopefully that will peak his
interest.
So updating my investigator, S. He's
been doing really well. We keep forgetting to bring a member with us when we go
and teach him but he's been responding really well. It's weird, he is
recognizing all the blessings in his life from what we are teaching and tells
us that he feels closer to God and he feels good when we teach him. He’s
improving the quality of his life, but he hasn't decided if it's the will of God
to join our church. We will keep teaching him and hopefully he will understand I
guess. We really need to him read the Book of Mormon. We teach about it
probably every lesson and commit him to read every time, and he always says
yes, but he hasn't done it yet. So frustrating. We love this guy and he's so
ready and he pays attention and loves the lessons, but he hasn't read yet.
Hopefully he will get an answer to his prayer and know this is the will of God.
On the other hand, today we had a
miracle. We were just hanging out for p-day, (took a nap). We had just woken up
and were preparing to go email, and all the sudden we get a call. It was the
family in our ward that brought T. They called us and said they had a person to
teach right and they can pick us up whenever, we were like, uh okay! So we get
dressed as fast as we could and made our way to their car and went to their
house. If you look a map at Liahona there is a dirt road that goes out the back
to a little farmhouse. That's where they live. They have this distant family
relative who wasn't a member. She lives in another town, and she’s 20 soon to
be 21. She accepted the first lesson with open arms, even though I suck at
Tongan, She said her family was all Catholic and they wanted her to become a
nun, but she didn't want to because she wants to get married eventually. She
has been trying to find Mormons because she heard they support marriage. She
prayed for help and then her cousin who was a member came from Alaska and
brought her to this family. She totally accepted everything and promised to
pray and she was really excited about it. I have hope for this one. She
accepted to be papitiso (baptized) on the 23 of December (we have a zone papi
(baptisms) on the 23). I'm really excited and very happy the Lord has blessed
us with this opportunity. That's all I got this week, I’m excited to Skype on
Christmas! I love you all and hope you all remember to pray!
OFA ATU
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