Week 4 in MTC

Well helllllloooo there!

Two weeks left here in the MTC!! All is going fantastic! We should be getting our travel plans today but we thought that yesterday too haha!  so a lot of Elders parents in my district are just getting those cheap pay as you go phones instead of phone cards! idk if you want to do that but it would probably work the best then i would just throw it away after calling you guys! Thank you so much for all those pictures! I never really got pictures in the yearbook so i am pretty surprised there were so many of me this year. hahaha but hey i look good so what can i say? ;) 

That hailstorm looked crazy!!! wish i was there to be in it!  During our Tuesday night devotional it started POURING with lightning and everything so they kept us in the Marriott for an extra 15 minutes until the lightning stopped than made us walk back in the pouring rain! it was awesome! didn't bother me one bit so i will be fine in Tonga!! haha Neil L. Anderson was the speaker so that is my 2nd apostle in 2 weeks!! awesome i know! the police man came into the building and got his car keys and his families car keys to pull their cars up so that they didn't have to walk out in the rain haha when i saw the cop come in he looked somewhat worried so i thought there was protesters outside like there is at the temple on Sundays and so that is why they wouldn't let us out but it was just the rain! Elder Anderson talked about loving the things we sacrifice for, and sacrificing for the things we love! that's exactly what missionary work is all about!

Sorry if i don't write much.  weeks here are ALWAYS the same thing over and over and over again, nothing new! Everyone seems to be getting sick of each other... haha 6 weeks with 14 guys gets a little stressful and annoying! ummm so last week was a wall for me in the language! i couldn't grasp anything, couldn't put sentences together, couldn't remember words or anything! sucked so bad trying to teach lessons! i relied a lot on my companion.... but this week was amazing!!  i could formulate sentences, remember words, i was remembering everything i was being taught!!  it was crazy!! i just hope it goes good haha!

So mom when we went to dinner with Elder Leavitt he left a lot out! haha he is down here for construction and does the TRC for us where we go and practice teaching lessons! so you get massive boils in Tonga! he had three in his leg that grew into one MASSIVE one that covered his calf!!!! they had to clean it out and when they did the q-tip went 2 inches into his leg!!!!!!!!!!!! gross right? but i guess he rarely showered because he didn't like the cold water hahahaha!  i just hope i don't get all gross like that.  i promise i will shower every day! haha

So apparently there is a huge thing with paisley ties here.... haha and i guess plain color ones look best with tupenus!  i will be giving a lot of my ties away anyways!   i have traded two of my crappy ones for nice ones!  i like skinny ties! 

Our room was the only room to get the bed bugs but it’s all good now! we have an extra bunk bed in our room now and so we push the two together so me and another kid basically are sleeping on queen size beds! haha i have been sleeping fine! maybe send some better earplugs? the ones you gave me suck haha but i got some nice ones from another kid that actually work! and my back has been hurting lately.... it’s annoying!

MTC  p-day is just hard cuz like its our day to get away from all the studying but there is nothing we can do so we just sit on the computers..... but p-days will be the same in Tonga too for me but for you it would be a Wednesday.

Do you know what’s hard about the language?  Bad words are so close to good words hahahaha like Fakalelei is Atonement but fakalele is diarrhea..... hahaha pronunciation is key!!!

So there is a senior couple who is super rich that came to the MTC the same time as us but already flew to Tonga and they want to buy us all our tupenu's!!!  they are awesome! the husband served in the stake presidency with our mission president so they are really close! they will be like our grandparents while we are there!  i guess we are the largest group to ever go to Tonga at one specific time! crazy! and there are about 150 missionaries there right now and ALLLL are on the Main island of Tongatapu! so we will all be together haha!  crazy how they can put all those missionaries just on the one island! there are none out on the outer islands right now but the missionary work is doing great!! that’s about all for now! if we get our travel plans i will email them to you later! hope all is well back at home!!!

Elder Huntsman

P.S.  If you want me to say stuff in Tongan give me some simple phrases and i will do what i can haha but idk how to work the special accents on the words!   'ofa 'atu is i love you, fefe hake is how are you, Ko 'Ene fanau kitautolu is we are His children, idk what to say haha ummmm 'Oku 'ofa kia Sisu Kalaisi is I love Jesus Christ.