Transferred and Trunky

SO this week was crazy! I got transferred a week before the transfer again because of something that happened on Wednesday with the bishop again so now I am in the Liahona Stake in an area covering two villages, Mapelu and Matangiake. I stay across the street from the Mission President and the mission offices haha. It’s different being so close to everything! Our area is probably 95% LDS so all of our baptisms are people coming from outside the stake. It’s a great area and they pay a lot of attention to the missionary work, but like I said everyone we teach comes from outside the stake so they pretty much control our time teaching and everything like that.

So Wednesday after a companion exchange in Kolonga the zone leaders picked us up and took me and my comp home. We were sitting outside in the car and the Bishop pulled up. He asked to talk to us so we all got out and started talking to him. He was mad that I had asked the zone leaders for help with what happened in the Ward Council meeting because it got to the Stake President and our Mission President. He kept telling me that I was the one that kept misunderstanding them and stuff like that but I just kept trying to explain to him that I knew what he was talking about, because we had been talking about it for about 5 months straight in all the meetings with our president. He kept getting frustrated than burst out and said, "Kei toe si'i pea teu ta'i koe keke mahaki Mani." meaning “There is only a small time before I hit you til you are injured!” (somewhat like that, not a perfect translator.) And so obviously us talking wasn’t helping at all. After a little time we finished talking and I talked with the zone leaders about what I should do now and they just said well we have to tell president because he just threatened to hit a missionary. So they called President the next day and 5 minutes later the AP's texted and said that I was getting moved to here! My new comp is Elder Toki, from Tonga. The problem with this area is that people only come here as a punishment haha so if I stay here everyone I will be with I am pretty sure will only be moved here because of that reason. My old comp was scared because he felt he didn’t know the members in Niutoua but then I just heard that he got his Visa so he is leaving today. I am just trying to figure it all out........ my comp now is a real troublemaker and isn’t very obedient, so we never do any of our program..... so it sucks and is hard to not get trunky right now...... but I can only keep trying!!!! But ya nothing you can do about it right?

Friday night’s fafanga, all I ate was octopus haha! Surprising right????

Man was General Conference good! I took a bunch of notes and learned so much. A few of my favorites were by Wilford W. Anderson about not just doing the dance, but feeling the music of the gospel. Dale G. Renlund's talk about how a Saint is just a sinner who keeps on trying. I really liked how he talked about the phrase, "Twas I, But Tis not I" how we can learn from the past but understand that it was the past, it’s not us anymore. We need to become as he said a Latter Day Saint, not a Latter Day Quitter or a Latter Day Hypocrite. It was a great session and I was glad I got to watch it here in ENGLISH so that I was able to just understand the fullness of all that they talked about.

So this week ya it was kinda hard... Everything with the bishop, and then last night I just kept thinking about the wedding and how much I wanted to be there.... I had our zone leaders come give me a blessing so that was good, really helped a lot. One thing I have learned here is to honor and trust in the power of a priesthood blessing. They always make everything so much better.

Keegan and Kenzie, I am super proud of you two and send you my love! Can’t wait to see you two when I get back. (Keegan, start running again, starting to put some weight on over there hahahahahahaha)

Thanks for everything guys! Love you all tons! Don’t worry mom :) write you next week!

Elder Kamden McKay Huntsman

I got the real tie today.  I thought that the tie that you had sent in the other package
was the one you were talking about haha. Thanks though!