Dear Family, friends, and girls,
I'm really glad you all had a wonderful Christmas,
and if you didn't, I really hope you will have a good New Year. We are all children
of God and he loves us, so you’ve got that too. I had a pretty good Christmas I
guess. It was very different. So normally around Christmas you feel the
excitement in the air, and everyone is a little happier. Everyone here is a
littler happier too I guess, but it's quite a bit hotter and that's all you
feel in the air. I've sweated more than I ever have before during Christmas,
but it was good! The highlight of the week was probably getting to talk to my
family! I miss you guys so much, it didn't seem like I got to talk very long
but that's okay. I should be obedient to the rules and that's a good thing.
After I Skyped I went to the Bishop's house and had a huge meal. We had lots of
meat, raw fish, and kumala. They even had turkey!!! Turkey is really, really
expensive in Tonga and hard to come by. It's supposedly a family tradition of theirs
to bring turkey to friends and family during Christmas. After we ate a lot, we
got some presents! The bishop's family gave us a Tongan T shirt and some candy
and some other stuff! I was super happy and I’m very thankful to the F family.
I should've taken a picture with them, oh well. We planned for our next week
and then visited some members that were home.
As far as missionary work this week, I don't
think much happened. I hate to say that but we didn't really find much success.
Our investigator's kind of disappeared and everyone was busy. However, we are
very excited because we have a new goal! The mission president and stake
president worked out a goal from now until May, of 100 people to learn and be
baptized per stake. I'm really excited to talk about this with members. We did
the math and it’s about 1 baptism per family per ward. That's entirely
possible! We know that our mission president is inspired of God and so we are
going to have faith and work really hard to achieve this. We planned out how to
talk about it and use it with members in our weekly planning session and we had
a lot of laughs because my companion kept saying "THE GOAL" in a
Batman voice. We talked about how we can use it all sorts of places and it was
really funny, good times.
Anyway,
I have to tell everyone, sorry, no I haven't had the opportunity to eat horse
or dog yet. A family I know had dog for Christmas but I missed it because I was
at the bishops. Horses are really expensive as I’m sure you can all guess and
Tonga isn't overflowing with money, so it's a very special occasion to eat
horse and I haven't quite had it yet.
That's all I’ve got for right now. We
had some pretty killer sunsets; I’ll send pictures so y'all can have
backgrounds for stuff. Y'all should write me about how your Christmas was and what's
going on!
OFA ATU,
Elder Sitaki
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Some members gave me raw peanut to eat (they are
delicious) and I planted one for fun. It's growing into a great plant and it
was my Christmas tree this year.
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