Tonga Week 16

Had quite the week. It started off with the normal slow down and then things started really getting weird.

Personal:

I'm pretty good. I've had a cough for going on 6 weeks though and I'm not sure what from. I have been able to work out everyday and get all my studying in which has been good. I found out mosquito coils are bad for your health so now I just tough out the bites. I think my immune system is getting adjusted because now they usually go away in a couple hours. I have started to adjust a little better to the food and the language is coming. Kapou oku mou poto e lea fakatonga te u tohi 'i lea fakatonga, ka oku ou pehe 'e ikai te ke mahino. I under stand most of what people said, and can get my point across, but some words like year (ta'u) I can't ever seem to remember because I mix it up with ta'i (hit) or ta'e (swear word) and then everyone laughs at me. I wish the work would move a little faster but everyone seems very content not to talk to us.

Companionship:
Seems like a solid we work together.  We are doing okay though and I think one of us will transfer at the next one on February 7th.
Parents:

Mom, Dad, there are several things that you both taught me that I have realized are not quite normal for the other Elders. For Example:
-if you get something out put it away
-stick to your task till it sticks to you
-time is money, in this case not money but I got the point
-how to have fun and still work (i think I taught myself this one but I thank Dad for the job that made me figure it out)
-how to keep things clean and properly wash a house
-how to stay up beat and cheerful when nothing goes the way you want and everything breaks (i thank the big house for that)
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And many others...anyway, thank you very much.

Tonga:
Silosi turns out has been seeing another women, who's another soldiers wife, which is against the law, so we were teaching sini and the cops showed up and so we left. Sini is doing well though but still hasn't made it to church. She isn't smoking though.

Penitani and his wife split up because of some abuse. I think it was for the best.

We are teaching a new lady named Mafile'o. She's very old but is starting to progress.

Vaiola agreed to be baptized.

We were out finding on Saturday and we started teaching a Pentecost Preacher. After that we passed a house and a guy yelled out for us to come back. He sang the whole Hallelujah Chorus to us and it was so funny we tried so hard not to laugh (he was drunk, and his friend was sleeping standing up) and then he brought it in like to hug us and kissed me. I was so weirded out I shoved him away and then he tried to do it to my companion so we ran to our bikes and rode away. Somehow we still managed a return appointment.

I told my 7 year old boy neighbor that I was hungry so he went and killed a chicken for me.

Me and my comp are currently out of money so we have come up with interesting ways to do laundry and make toilet paper.

We tried to make brownies yesterday. We went to the church to use the oven and my companion opened the oven door to find a huge poisonous lizard. I guess we could go to the hospital if it bites so we turned the oven on and cooked it and then fed it to the dogs.

I helped unload a couple cords of wood on Saturday.

Spiritually:
I've been reading a lot about the other missionaries in the scriptures. It's amazing how easily people reject the Book of Mormon as not true when they have never read it for themselves. If you read it you will know it is true. That's the promise the Lord makes.

Love you all tons and talk to you soon! 81 weeks to go! Wouldn't exactly say it's flying by but I am liking it!