I Ate Horse!

Hey sorry I haven’t been able to get to net til now. We weren’t able to on Monday. We went to the next village over so we asked bishop to do it today. The work here is pretty much the same. We taught one kid and had him set for baptism but his dad won’t let us meet with him anymore so back again to square one! I am thinking about just sending my memory card with Haleki, but since I won’t get any of your packages til probably September, I might go to town to get just a 2GB card for cheap, that is if Pres. will let me. Doubt it though!

We didn’t really eat anything weird this week but I had horse for the first time! It was way good! Not better than beef and especially not better than dog!! We are having dog tonight at our neighbor’s house then they said they will cook one for Haleki right before he goes home so I think next Wednesday! Can’t wait haha.

So Haleki was part of this performing group where they do all the Polynesian dances and stuff back at home and they do this Maori thing called Poi balls. His friend’s mom sent him some so he taught me how to do it and gave them to me! So I have been practicing that in my down time haha. I will have to show you when I get home! Or if he takes the memo home you can see it on there. He videoed me practicing last week. I have been trying to take more pictures recently, with members and just of me in general cuz I don’t take that many haha.

For exercise I do the one thing that Brian told me not to do, pushups..... But my shoulders have been getting stronger! Only popped out once since January! But I am probably in the best upper body shape of my life! haha I do 80+ pushups a night, I still can’t do too many cuz of my bad shoulder but I get better and better every week! Then I do whatever abs I can think of until my abs hurt.  I use the band to strengthen my arms/shoulders. You would be impressed. I haven’t gotten fatter here! My arms/ chest are actually getting muscle and definition haha.  It’s just my stomach that’s the struggle, the pooch never wants to leave I guess hahaha. Sometimes we run at night, but we haven’t really lately. We usually ran 2+ miles a night.

I haven’t seen the Liahona yet so haven’t seen the article about Tonga. I don’t care about you selling the Trikke. I was getting too big for it anyways haha but I BOUGHT THAT WITH MY MONEY ;) haha The spiritual moments this week were just the times we got to teach cuz it had been a couple weeks not teaching an investigator! BTW mom Haleki's ward has sacrament at 11:00 and it’s on the 24^th just so you know.  And his Poly friends might cook some Poly food so hit it up haha. We gotta do an underground oven for mine!!!!!!! I will even do it all :) haha Anywho, love you guys! Take care!

Love you,

Elder Mani  (I finally got that on my name tag now!!!!)