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this week has been such a great week especially this Saturday it was one of my favorite days as a missionary.

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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M

February 4,2019 email

this week went by so fast it is so crazy time isn't a thing on your mission. its crazy to think that i have only been out for 2 months but also at the same time i have been out for 2 months. 

 we live 20 minutes from the church its in a nice area. 

the area that our church is in isnt that nice. 

on Tuesday we met a really cool family they are excited to learn more, we gave them a book of Mormon and they started reading it and want to know more we have a lesson with them this Thursday.. 

then on Wednesday we had a lesson with a man named Francisco he is doing so great we asked him to read the last 2 paragraphs of the introduction for our next visit and he read all the testimonies and everything up to the first chapter, he asked so many good questions and wants to know more we as have another lesson with him and his wife this week. we also taught  him how to pray and it was the cutest thing ever and he said his first prayer with us. also on this day we went tracting to some houses that told us we could come back the night before. so we went back to this one house and a different lady answered and she was so happy to see us we told her all about our church and what we believe and she was telling us that she was so thankful that we stopped by and that she really needed us. we gave her a book of Mormon and she was like i am going to go read it right now, and then we hugged her goodbye and passed her on the English missionaries. 

then we had a way good lesson with some people who have recently started coming back to church after we started meeting with them they are doing so good and they are going to try to go back to the temple soon!

on Thursday one of our progressing friends called us and told us he was moving, he is the one we were going to invite to be baptized this week, so that was really disappointing . we are going to send him to the missionaries in Nebraska. after he called we were both way disappointed and thought that the night was going to be the worst. BUT THEN we knocked on the sweetest mans door, he started talking to us and he was telling us how he just got of prison a few weeks ago and he had been in there for 21 year! which is so crazy he was there 2 years before i was born. but he was so nice and we told him that we knew that he could change through Jesus Christ. we talked about the book of Mormon and how so many people changed in it, we gave him a book of Mormon and he is so excited to learn more. He shook our hands so many times and was like thank you so much for coming over you helped me so much. he was the sweetest and he made our whole night better. it was amazing. then we also met 3 more people who were very interested it was so cool. 

then on Friday we had a lesson with flor who is getting baptized this Saturday, she is so excited. we taught her about tithing and she said she couldn't accept to pay it, which means she couldn't be baptized, so we prayed all week that someone would bear their testimony on tithing this fast Sunday and like 4 people did. after she came up to us and said that she was willing to pay it!!! 

then on this night we got a text about a referral we sent. we found this one girl and we gave her a book of Mormon and bore testimony of how amazing it was and she was way excited and said she would start reading it, we also invited her to attend church. so anyway the English missionaries texted us and said that she wants to be baptized, they still have to teach her all the lessons, but she has starting reading the book of Mormon and she knows it true! 

 nothing to great happened on Saturday we had a 2 lesson with this family and the husband asked us if we smoked weed. and we were like no, and then he looked at me and told me that i look like i did. i thought that once i came on a mission and had a tag that people would stop thinking that but they still do. 

any way this week has been so amazing i love being a missionary so much. everyone has been so nice to us no one has been mean yet. and i love talking to so many new people every day

also this Saturday is flors baptism and also elder Andersen and someone else is coming to talk to us. 

love you and miss have an amazing week 

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