Dear Family,
I am very thankful for this opportunity
to email you guys this week, A lot has happened and I’m a little rushed on time
so I’ll get down to the nitty gritty details really quick. So something
happened and I got in a lot of trouble. I basically gave some guy the keys to a
mission vehicle, the mission credit card and a told him where the mission boat
was. I got confused and thought it was okay, but it was NOT. I'm really busted
and President is considering whether or not to send me home with church
disciplinary action... I'm scared of out my mind and the only thing I can think
of is: Just kidding. APRIL FOOLS! Haha! I had to do something! The best prank I
pulled was stealing the other missionary’s pillows, which is hardly exciting.
Lets analyze this week's activities. We
had a really awesome experience this week. I wrote a list of what our part was
in this area, what we need to do to find investigators and work with other
people. Then I wrote what God's part was, like if we are doing our part he will
help with the rest. Then I wrote what I needed help with from God. When I
looked at the list I was able to decide what we were doing not well and what we
were doing good at. For example, learning the language, my part is trying to
use it and putting in time to study it. And if I do that God will help me learn
it faster than I would by myself, same with finding investigators. For our part,
all we can do is go to members and ask for them to bring people, but we are
working to set up activities they can invite people to and setting up dates for
them to work towards and stuff like that. Well, we were going around doing our
part, and what do you know, if we are doing our part, God will do the rest. We
had this awesome experience. It was Wednesday and the youth were doing mutual
in a field in the back. We were visiting a member and someone pulled up in a car
and asked where the youth were. We said we'd show him so we hopped in the car
and showed him where to go. What do ya know, he was a non-member guy. He had
recently moved from New Zealand and his little brother was recently baptized.
He didn't speak much Tongan so it was easy to talk because it was all in
English. He was happy his little brother joined the church and would keep good
standards and stuff like that. I started talking about church and we invited
him to come; he was really interested because it is in English and not Tongan
so he could understand and he said he would be there! Such a blessing!!! We
were doing our part and God gave us what we needed. Just a testimony of the
work, so happy! That was the crowning point of the week. Kind of simple, but
exciting.
A depressing point of the week happened
when we found out one of our investigators can't met us again because she told
her mom she was talking to the missionaries and her mom said it wasn't okay.
Here in Tonga, the parents have control of the children until long after they
are living away and married. A 30-year-old man is still loyal to parents as
much as a 10-year-old boy is. You just respect your parents forever, which is
great, except no one will listen to our message because stinking old farts
won't let their kids find happiness! We have had 4 investigators now tell us
that they can't listen anymore because of parents. It’s really frustrating.
The last part of the week I want to
mention which was really awesome was when we did the baptism ordinance for the
sister’s investigators. It was way spiritual; I got to baptize them in a skirt!
Like what up! How many missionaries can say they baptized in a skirt. Haha! It
was fun though; the guy that got baptized was awesome and solid as a rock!
Ofa lahi atu my friends and family,
Elder Sitaki
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