Dog, Chicken & Manioke

Sorry no pictures and kind of rushed but this week again was slow! We find out transfers on Wednesday so I don’t know what is happening! But we killed a dog earlier and we have two boxes of chicken and a bunch of manioke and we’re having a huge underground oven for p-day today! Lots of people are here so I am happy. First time in a long time doing p-day like this.  I am glad everything is good back at home! Sorry I can’t write much but nothing happened anyways.... really slow! Gotta go though. Love you!

Elder Mani

10/12/14 Unwelcomed Visitor?

Malo e lelei famili ofeina!

Ko e uike ko eni na'e kei tuai pe I he tafa'aki a e ngaue fklaumalie, ka na ma tokoni'i ki he teuteu mo fkmaau api na'e ai a ema kaungaapi koe'uhi na'e foki mai ha Sisita mei he'ene ngaue fkfaifekau. haha my Tongan is coming along!

So this week we didn’t have much work with investigators but we helped our next door neighbors set stuff up and cook food because their daughter was coming back from her mission. There was so much food there! haha They had a fireside for her last night because she couldn’t speak in church since it was conference week here. Yesterday and Saturday we watched Conference, in Tongan, which sucked cuz I could understand it, but couldn’t write any real notes cuz I had to focus just on what they were saying so if I tried to write something down I would miss stuff... Can you send me the November Liahona in English when it comes out? That way I can read it cuz it is the Conference issue!

Last night was kinda creepy! So our door is a bolt lock, not like a normal door knob. We got back from the fireside and take off the lock then undo the bolt and the door still won’t open!!! We go around to the window and shine the flashlight in and it was bolted and secured from the inside..... There is NO possible way that anyone can get in the house without us seeing where they broke in! Freaking creepy!! We had to call the zone leaders and they came over and we broke the windows off with a crowbar and a kid climbed in and opened it for us. it freaked me out cuz there honestly is NO way that anyone could lock our door from the inside, yet it was.... haha I prayed hard last night I guess you could say… kinda spooked!  The windows here are louvers, I don’t know how to explain but they are easy to take out and put back in, but the screen is locked into the window frame with a board and nails so we had to pry that off and rip the screen off but its fine not a big problem haha..... But ya that’s our week.  Still slow workwise.... but hopefully it will get better!

Ofa lahi atu kiate kimoutolu!!!

Elder Mani

Oh ya and our water was dead 5 out of the 7 days this week.... now shower feels awesome haha.

That’s how this village is! it’s dead right now.

So there was a sister who just came home from her mission and the
family was making these Kahoa Lole, candy necklaces, that
Tongans do for every celebration and it makes me jealous!
She has over 20 of them which is typical haha!

Helping cook food and set stuff up for the sister who just got home.

The kids who helped out with getting the house ready and cooking food.

Octopus! And yes I ate it haha!

CrEePy!!!  Locked out from the inside!

Breaking and entering!

Pictures I forgot to send from our Ward Family Home Evening.

Spam. Ramen Noodles, Bread, Pop and Chips...Yum 10/5/14

This week again flew by SOOOO fast! We got a new investigator who randomly started speaking English to us so we just taught her in English haha. She is a 16 year old girl and she bore her testimony before we even started! She says she is ready for any consequence that comes, even being kicked out of her house! It was a great lesson and we plan to have her baptized in a couple weeks after her tests are over at school.

One night our fafanga just gave us bread so we bought a bunch of other stuff to go with it and ate it with a couple of our neighbors who live right next door to us haha. But again it was another slow week here not much happening! It just sucks cuz this mission seems like there is so much expected out of us but I never seem to be one who gets those big numbers....The Ward Family Home Evening started an hour late and no one prepared their activities so it wasn’t very good..... but ya we get conference this week and I hope I can find a place to watch it English or at least listen! 

Oh in the next package can you send another CTR ring ha! I promise I won’t lose it..... that and pictures is all I can think of.

 Love you tons!

Oh another thing if you could send, some Gillette Fusion Proglide heads! I don’t use the electric anymore haha.  I got a Proglide in Vava’u and it worked really good but dulled out after about 2 months.

Spam Sandwich!