Tuesday;
the elders called us the night before and told us not to eat breakfast in the morning because we had a zone conference and the liahona ward (Tongan Ward) was in charge of the food. so we went to zone conference it was really good, I learned a lot and then after we had lunch. it was unbelievable !! the most food I think i have ever seen in my life. The missionaries serving there told us that as they passed around a sign-up for members to help with the missionary luncheon just about everyone in the ward signed up . There were about 10 tables set up and at each table, there was enough food for a least 25 people. they also made us each our own loaf of banana bread, and we got to take home so much food. i took home fruit and it filled up two freezer bags. it was the coolest thing and then they sang to us it Tongan. i felt like we were in Hawaii it was the cutest thing ever. then that night we had a lesson with flor and she kept talking about how excited she was to be getting baptized and to be receiving a best friend the holy ghost.
then on Wednesday, we had a lesson with someone who was recently baptized but hasn't come to church in a few months, we had the lesson at the park and he brought us snacks it was so cute. and he ended up coming to church this Sunday after our lesson with him. then that night we went to this one street where we have some people who are interested and we got to stop by some of our English speaking friends houses . we can't teach them because they speak English but we just stopped by to see how they were. they are both so nice and they are so happy when we stop by. they are best friends and they live across the street from each and they are some of our favorite people out here. that night was kinda a rough night tracting, people weren't very nice.
then on Thursday, we did weekly planning. then we had a lesson with a guy named jorje. and we taught him about the plan of salvation. then we taught him how to pray because he didn't know how and he said his first prayer and it was the cutest thing ever.
then on Friday we did exchanges so my companion was someone who we share the apartment with her name is Hermana singer and she is a vegan so it's cool to have her in the house and when we go to dinners at members because she eats the same as me and she can't have gluten. we got to meet a ton of people. i also got to leave my mission and go to the Santa Rosa mission for the night because one of their areas is in the other mission.
then Saturday my favorite day yet. in the morning we got to go hear from an apostle. elder Neil l Andersen and a few other people. i learned so much from them, we also got to shake their hands which were pretty cool! it was an amazing experience.
then after that, we went tracting for a while, we were driving, and we rolled down our window to this guy and was like hey have you heard of the book of Mormon and he was like no and then we were like to you want to and he said yeah so we were like pullover.so we pulled over into the taco bell parking lot and talked to this guy for like 30 minutes. he was like i thought you guys thought i was cute and wanted to hang out. and we were like nope we are working and we explained to him what we do. and talked to him about how amazing the book of Mormon is and we gave him a copy and he said he would start reading it. we gave him our number and he's been texting us questions .soooo mayybbee he will get baptized one day.
then that night was flors baptism. it went perfectly she was so excited and everything went well. i had to talk in Spanish in front of 40 people and i wasn't even nervous so life is good.
i love being a missionary it is for sure the best choice i have ever made.
anyway, i hope you are having so much fun i love you and miss you.
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