This week was pretty memorable and I got to do some pretty sweet things - including burning a shirt on the island of Atata. Thursday was my year mark of entering the MTC. My district surprised me early that morning with a cake, then we had a water balloon fight. Then my comp and the Zones went to ATATA, which is a small island right off the coast of Tonga. There are 3 things on the island - a resort for tourists, a super small village, and uta (bush). Unfortunately I believe my SD card reader is broken so I can't sent pictures but I would look it up because it's way beautiful. We were supposed to take a tourist boat out there but they were going to charge us 70 bucks each, so we proceeded to suto (hitch hike) and find another boat going to the island. The boat ride was super sick. It was about a 40 minute ride on a boat that was very small. We filled it up with the 10 people that went over.
The Church goal of Atata is to
start a branch there. There are 10-20 members on the island and church is held
in the home of one of the members. We knocked all 25 houses in Atata in
about 30 minutes. Literally nobody answered us. When we got off the boat I
think a minster in another church saw us and told everybody not to talk to us.
But all the kids followed us around and we gave out about 30 pamphlets out to all the
kids. Planting seeds. We walked all around the island in about an hour, made a
fire and then slept at a member's house. Going to Motu (islands) is so fun. It always makes me feel so privileged to be in the coolest mission in the world.
On Sunday we had a fireside for all the youth in the stake, but everybody
was invited. President Tui'one came as well as the temple president. The
H.E.F.Y group was also there. The last speaker of the night
was the Stake President. I actually got to know this president when I first came to Tonga on the H.E.F.Y. trip two years ago and apparently he remembered me. So as soon as he gets up he says,"will the missionary who attended the HEFY trip please come up to the
stand," in front of the entire stake. He then made me bear my testimony in
Tongan. It was super funny. I made a joke about eating dog and everybody died
laughing. It's really cool to see the connections I made from the HEFY
trip.
We currently have 3 investigators who have baptism dates for this Saturday. Two are
unsure because of their parents but we are going to pray and fast for them this
week. We have gotten a couple of new potentials and have been working with some
less actives, so work is going fine here.
Love you all.
Do good things!
Ofa atu,
Elder Wilson
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