Tonga Week 11

Dear Family,

This week was good and very busy.

Me:

I'm doing great, finally starting to feel better. We got bikes and they expanded our area. Guess what?  You know that one track in Tonga? (There's only one on the whole island) that's now in my area! We plan to go this afternoon. I found Annies mac and cheese last week so me and my comp bought 9 boxes. I also got tired of getting sick so I bought every vegetable currently in season. 6 pineapples at 50 cents a piece and carrots, cucumbers, green beans, apples and pears! I've been feeling a bit better. The bikes are also very fun, they are total beach cruisers and pretty fun to ride. We go out to the outskirts of our area and it now only takes is about 5 minutes.

Companionship:

We played away in a Manger yesterday for a musical fireside. It sounded beautiful. We plan to go caroling a bit this week and next week. It's very different not having snow or at least the cold weather for christmas. We taught a bit less this week because we had a lot of meetings. The bikes have made things a bit interesting. I think he thinks that we pass a lot of potentials riding bikes, but I talk to everyone I see so I don't know how! The cleaning has gone back to about how it was the first week. 

Tonga:

Tonga is good, we had Pizza from the only pizza place here on Thursday. It was delicious. Tastes like homemade pizza. The occasional hard rain storms are quite frustrating because it will be sunny and then you'll be drenched within like 5 minutes. Dogs have been more of a problem with the bikes, I like the lift my legs up approach, but my companion prefers the walk on the side of the bike and hit them if they try to bite. Our sisters in our district tried to take my flip flops, I just wore out my first pair and was wearing the cool vans ones that Luke gave me and she asked to try them on and then forgot to give them back. Eventually after walking barefoot for a couple hours they made their way back. I bought fishing hooks because we have a fishing shop in the area now, and I might not when I get transferred to a new area by the sea.

Tongan Weddings:

There was a wedding on Wednesday. It was a palangi guy from Fairview Utah and one of our best members. They met on their mission when they served in California. (Don't worry Lys, I'm a missionary and won't be finding any sisters out here;) They had a big dance for the wedding and the prince of Tonga came. Since the dance was right next to the house the speakers from the dance shook our little house and stuff fell off the shelves and we couldn't fall asleep till 1 AM.

I better go, Love you all, good luck with Christmas preparations!

Love, Elder Lundskog

PS: I will call on your Christmas next week. I think the least expensive way is using Facebook through your phone so plan to stay in a spot with good wifi.