tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41423697802866324772024-03-13T10:04:12.262-07:00Tongan TimesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142369780286632477.post-47739430799111607462018-05-31T07:07:00.001-07:002018-05-31T07:07:01.310-07:00Last PostHey Everybody,<br />
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My time is running short so I will be quick. Uiha has been sweet! It's kind of the same as Ha'afeva in regards that there ain't nobody here, but my companion, Elder Leakehe, and I have been trying hard to
find people to teach. There are 2 towns on Uiha, about a 30 min walk away from each other, Uiha and Felemea. We may have a family to teach
in Felemea. Uiha also has insane sunsets.<br />
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Right now I'm actually in Vava'u. We have our mission tour tomorrow
so we took a boat to the main island and then took the super nice new boat to
Vava'u which was about 4 hours away. It's way cool to be up here and get to visit
Vava'u one last time before I'm done.<br />
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Time has absolutely flown by these last 2 years. I can honestly say it has been the hardest time of my life. But it's also been the most I've ever learned in my life. I really am going to miss
Tonga and the people and the lifestyle. </div>
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I would like to end with my
testimony that I know that the Gospel is the key to true happiness. God loves
us, and though we will all face trials and tribulations we will see God's plan for us, in his time and not ours. I know that God has inspired a prophet today and that
the keys of the Priesthood are on the earth today. The Heavens are opened and
miracles are still among us. I testify of the truthfulness of the Church and
the happiness we receive as we join the Lord's true church. </div>
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I've been amazingly
blessed to serve here in Tonga and have the blessing of sharing the gospel. I
love you all and am grateful for the support and help that you have given me
these past two years. The name is on the pin but it's also on the heart!</div>
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Ofa atu,</div>
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Elder Wilson</div>
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It's been the life out here on the outer
islands of Ha'apai. I just got my transfer call yesterday to leave Ha'afeva
and I'm going to another island, Uiha. We caught the mission boat to the main
island, which is why I can email. It's really sad to be leaving Ha'afeva.
There were a lot of people I learned to love there and a lot of good work was
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share my love for all of you and also my testimony. I know that God lives and
loves us. It was a great experience to be out in Ha'afeva and I saw a lot of miracles. I know that the heavens <u>are</u> open and it's only through faith
in Christ that good happens and we are happy. This is my last transfer I'm going to try and finish really strong
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- We had 3 people at church 2 weeks ago and a SOLID 2 people last week. My comp and
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- Dang, one transfer left. </div>
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- The sea was absolutely terrible when we came in from Ha'afeva. I'm grateful
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We have mission tour in 2 weeks so I think I'll be emailing one last time
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Ofa atu,</div>
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Things are going really well, time is going fast and I am doing great out here. Ha'afeva is the place, I really love it. We have set up a lot of programs and have been trying to work with less actives. Our District President, Pres. Lavaka, is the guy. He has one of the 3 trucks on the island, a boat and the only motorcycle thing. I've been eating a ton of fish, and my new favorite food is fried fish. It's also been raining a ton over here, but it's been fun to work in the rain. </div>
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We've just finished visiting the Lulunga district, so we've been out to all the seven islands in our area, including Nomuka which is the farthest one. On Tungua, one of our islands about an hour away, we completely run church, which means we preside,
conduct, give 20 min talks each and then teach 2nd hour. We have 3 investigators
there on Tungua, but the work has been hard because there is nobody to fellowship to them. There are 7
members and only 2 take the sacrament. One of our investigators is Lini.
She's 14 years old and we have taught her all the lessons. The only problem is with her parents, but we are fasting and praying, so it eventually
will work out. We have been to Tungua 3 times, which is the island I've been
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love you all. It's crazy to think next trasfer is my last. I'm actually kind of sad
and excited at the same time, life goes fast and Tonga has been a big part of my
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From the offfice: Elder Wilson and Elder Mahe getting ready to go to one of the islands to take care of watching General Conference. He is doing fine and will email next week when he comes to Zone Conference.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142369780286632477.post-91549976902503555742018-03-21T13:58:00.003-07:002018-03-21T13:58:48.233-07:00Note: Lucky Aaron was online when Levi emailed last week, so they had a quick chat and Levi said he thought he would only be able to email once a transfer. However, some members connected with Emma on Facebook and sent her the following pictures and message. One way or another...<br />
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"Elder Wilson say hi to all of yous and he sent his love. He just ate turtle today so he love it. He says plz sent the photos to family and friends. He still here in an island called haafeva which is in haapai group."<br />
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Sorry, no long email today. I'm working in Ha'apai, in the outer islands, and we
just came in for Zone Conference and then we are about to catch the boat back, so I
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1. Gita: We went to the church and camped out for the hurricane. My
town was on the west side of Tongatapu, so it wasn't as affected as the rest of the island. But basically just about every tree in Tonga fell down and a lot of houses had a lot of damage. Afterward we had a
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2. The next week I was transfered to Ha'afeva Ha'apai. Ha'afeva is an outer island about
a 2 hour boat ride from the main island of Ha'apai (depending on the boat). We
cover Vahe, Lulunga which is basically 7 small islands (Tungua, O'ua, Ha'afeva, Nomuka, Fotuha'a, Matuku and Kotu),and all the islands have an average
of about 80 people on them. Each island is about an hour apart from each other. I've
been to 4 of the islands and it's been sweet. This is a very beautiful area and we
have a boat called Moroni that we can use sometimes. I'm companions with Elder
Mahe, who I came to Tonga with. We are doing a lot of work and it's good to be with
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3. The outer island life is really slow and really chill. I eat a lot
fish. People here in this area are super nice. A lot of them are already baptized and the
others are very strong in their church, so work has historically been very slow, but we are trying our hardest to change that. Right now we have a plan with the Kaingalotu to read the Book of Mormon.</div>
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Random things:</div>
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- Ate 3 pigs last week</div>
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- People play tennis here too! </div>
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- I have seen sharks, dolphins, and flying fish.</div>
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- I'm insanely tan and so happy that I'm not super white anymore.</div>
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- There's a b-ball hoop and I just got a net sent in from Tonga, I'm set - 3
months to dunking.</div>
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I love you all. I testify the Church is true. Sorry this is so short, but the boat is
waiting on us. I have had a lot of spiritual experiences out here and they all
come from reading the Book of Mormon, so read it!</div>
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-- Elder Wilson</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142369780286632477.post-61306921594815629412018-02-28T07:21:00.003-08:002018-02-28T08:19:47.729-08:00Note: It appears that Elder & Sister Kapp are single-handedly trying to keep the missionaries in contact with their families through Facebook. We'd heard that Levi had written a short email, but couldn't remember our email addresses, so we contacted Elder Kapp directly and an email came this morning. Levi mentioned prior to the storm that he thought he might be going out to the island of Ha'afeva at the next transfer, so he may be out there where internet is already dicey. It should be an interesting last 4 months of his mission!<br />
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https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ha'afeva/@-19.9476937,-174.7202755,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x718d396a3d4cbe5f:0xf9b6e72873e80bfd!8m2!3d-19.9455156!4d-174.7080437<br />
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From Elder Kapp:<br />
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I am so sorry this took so long to get to you. Thank you for contacting us with
your email address. Elder Wilson is doing well. He is such a good missionary
and a great friend. You should be very proud of him.<br />
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Elder Kapp</div>
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Hey Mom, </div>
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Life is good over here and the hurricane wasn’t too bad over where I was. We have been able to do a ton of service and it’s been good to get closer to the people. I’m at one of the couples' houses right now and typing a quick
email. I don’t know when I’ll be able to email again because all the other power
is still out.</div>
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Love you and thanks for your prayers. Ofa atu,</div>
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Elder Wilson</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142369780286632477.post-9716704062091231012018-02-21T14:20:00.002-08:002018-02-28T08:21:17.649-08:00No word from Levi yet, but we've been following the blog of Senior Missionary Couple who, because of a generator, had/have electricity and internet. After the storm, the Kapps went around the island taking pictures of missionaries and posting them on their facebook page for parents to see. Below is the picture of Levi and his companion during clean-up. We also learned from their blog that transfers, which were to take place the Monday of the storm, happened a week later instead. We are looking forward to seeing where Levi is when he has a chance to write.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142369780286632477.post-11978266637294375502018-02-15T11:06:00.000-08:002018-02-15T11:06:28.654-08:00There will be miracles in Tonga.A friend of ours has a daughter scheduled to go to Tonga this summer with an HEFY group. This is the letter and pictures the participants received from the director yesterday.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hello
Tongan Builders,</span><br />
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For
the past few years, we have sent 4 HEFY groups to Tonga each summer. This
summer, we felt we needed to do more. In October, registration filled up quickly
for the 10 trips we will be taking to Tonga. Even though we didn't know how it
was going to work having 10 groups go to one small island, we felt strongly that
it was the right thing to do.<br />
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As some of you may be aware, a category 4 tropical cyclone catastrophically
hit the main island of Tonga earlier this week. Forty percent of homes lost
their roofs, there is massive flooding, and the majority of homes don't have
electricity or clean water. To put this storm into perspective, it was stronger
than hurricane Harvey when it hit Texas last fall. The country is in a dire
state and will be rebuilding for the foreseeable future. </div>
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I have been thinking about the HEFY theme for the year: There will be
miracles. When we heard the news of this natural disaster, we were reminded of
the inspiration we received so many months ago to increase the amount of groups
going to Tonga. The Lord has perfect foresight. You are going to be miracles for
the people in Tonga. You are needed there more now than ever. I am currently coordinating with our local partners to
plan your projects for this summer to help rebuild their country. </div>
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Thank you for your willingness to serve. We love you! </div>
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--Catherine</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142369780286632477.post-54276022393127866602018-02-14T11:36:00.002-08:002018-02-16T06:14:39.521-08:00Cyclone GitaParent note: Levi's mission changed, at least in the short term, when Tonga was hit by a Category 4 storm, Cyclone Gita, during the night of February 12th. We haven't heard from him yet and don't expect to soon, but we did receive this from the Mission President yesterday:<br />
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Dear Parent/ Guardian,<br />
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We do apologize for the delay in
communications, which were a result of a power outage and subsequent internet
failure.<br />
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Cyclone Gita has been an experience to remember and
something that we will be talking about for a very long time. For some of us it
was the longest night of our lives. The Cyclone has left our Island Kingdom of
Tonga, and although much foliage, many trees and various houses were destroyed,
I’m please to let you know that all the missionaries in the Nuku’alofa Tonga
Mission are accounted for. Each of them are safe, healthy and pleased to be
serving the people of Tonga in this time of need. <br />
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It will be a
very busy week and month for us as we will take part in the cleaning up and
giving of service to others in need. This will also be an opportunity to build
our love for the Lord and others. Due to the major destruction caused by Cyclone
Gita, the power on the entire Island has been shut down so please expect some
delay in communications for the time being. <br />
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We will do our best
to keep you updated as long as we are connected to these
services.<br />
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Kind
Regards,<br />
President and Sister Tui’one
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PN#2: Judging from the fabulous time he had in Tonga with HEFY, we're sure Levi is happy to be helping the Tongan people rebuild. Below is from HEFY 2015.<br />
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The theme of this past week is same old same old. Not
a whole lot is happening over here on this side of the hood in Ha'akame. All of our investigators live in
other places on Tongatapu, so don't live in our area and our "fellow-shippers" have been having a hard time getting through to them. But life still goes on in
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It's been really good to be with my companion. It's pretty cool that I've learned to understand Tongan behavior and language so much better, so now it honestly feels quite normal to be with a native Tongan. Elder Mohulamu also gets the award for most funny English, not that it's
bad but he will randomly speak in English at the most random times and says the
funniest things. <span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">We had a program with the YSA and Elder Cox in my district and I were
able to teach another palangi Peace Corps worker. It was a good teaching teaching experience, but it's weird to think how many white people believe so much in science. Teaching white people is strange because every Tongan has such a good grasp on the concept of
God. It's always amazing talking to Tongans about other teachings because they
are always confused when we talk to them about their concerns. </span></div>
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I had a good birthday, My comp surprised me after our district meeting
yesterday. He had his family get a tunupuaka (roasted pig) and this awesome cake. Dang my life is 1/4 over. </div>
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I balled out this morning, I'm trying to ball out every Wednesday and
Saturday. Weight check 178.4.</div>
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Love you all and have a great week.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142369780286632477.post-82580708703743405902018-01-24T11:24:00.002-08:002018-01-24T11:24:45.725-08:00Hey Everyone,<br />
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Sorry about last week. We had a Mission Leader's Conference and I had to skip the big email again.<br />
Life and work have been going relatively well this
past couple of weeks. Ha'akame is a very, very small place but it has a lot of members
so most of our work is trying to go through the members. There were a lot of investigators before I
came to Ha'akame, but it seems as if the fakafeohi (fellowshippers) haven't
been able to find times to meet with them, so it's a little slow.<br />
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In 2016 (2 years ago), I taught a Peace Core worker in Nukunuku and guess who I
ran into at church this week - the same Peace Core worker named Darbie. It was really fun to talk to her
and we were able to teach her twice this past week. She has a lot of questions about a
lot of things and it's been fun to try to answer her questions. Especially since we don't
usually get a lot of questions in Tonga.<br />
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Love you all and have a good week,</div>
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Elder Wilson</div>
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A couple of older pictures:</div>
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This past week was transfers again and I got
the boot from Hofoa and transferred to serve in Ha'akame. Ha'akame is a
relatively small town in the southwest part of Tonga with a lot of members. There are two wards in our small area and I believe there's a lot of work to be done. We already have a couple of investigators to teach. My new
companion is Elder Mohulamu from Tonga. He's a really good missionary and came in at the same time I did. I'm super excited to be a companion with him
and speak Tongan all the time, which was something I really wanted going into the
transfer. We are still the zone leaders and I'm now driving the newest car in the
mission, a 2015 Toyota Corolla, which I'm pretty pumped about.</div>
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I going to go back to the random things:</div>
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- We visited the ward members yesterday and when we went around, I kid
you not, there were at least 5 houses that were eating dog. I've also heard that
Ha'akame is the place to eat horse. </div>
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- I balled out in slippers this morning. Liahona is in the zone so the
basketball may be starting up again. </div>
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- We also taught a kid named Hautau. While we were teaching him and I was literally
inspired by the answers this kid gave. He's 13-years-old and giving inspired answers! Unfortunately we don't know if his parents know about him being taught so we
will see if we can continue to teach him.</div>
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- I finished the 3-month Book of Mormon challenge and have started reading
the epistles of Paul. I really like Kolinito (Corinthians) 2:4-5 where Paul is speaking on teaching, how when people are converted to the gospel it's not because of his way of speaking, but it's through
the power of the Holy Ghost. I think that's something really important that
every missionary needs to learn. It doesn't matter how deep your
knowledge of the scriptures is or how good your language is, but how people feel the holy ghost. </div>
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Love you all and have a great week,</div>
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Elder Wilson</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142369780286632477.post-40010645943311464872018-01-02T18:26:00.001-08:002018-01-02T18:26:30.927-08:00Forgive me, I'm going to have to
ditch the big email today. We are really busy with our zone p-day and other
things. We found a new investigator this week who turns out to be the brother of
our other investigator and we are trying to get them going in the Gospel. Here are some pictures from the Christmas Party. Have a great week!<br />
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Hey Everybody, </div>
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It was a good week this past week. We had our Mission Leaders Conference and a good
vilo hoa. Here are the 5 highlights:</div>
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1. The Mission Leaders Conference was great. We talked about a lot of the problems facing
the mission and how we can push the work forward in the mission by being
obedient to the small things. </div>
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We also balled up at the MLC which was super fun, but I can't shoot no more.</div>
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2. We have an elder in our district who is from Hofoa and he went on
exchange with us so we could find some more families to teach. It actually
worked pretty well and we now have some new families to teach, including some of Elder
Vaisas extended family.</div>
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3. Costlo, a new store in Tonga, obviously based on Costco. It's crazy different
then from anything in Tonga, like a part of America in Tonga. I went there and
bought some popcorn and bagel bites, life is good.</div>
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4. It's beginning to get hot.</div>
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5. We have a Christmas Program on the 22nd and our zone has to sing a
song. If anybody has any good ideas please tell me, We are trying to get
creative.</div>
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Love you all, have a great week. </div>
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Ofa atu, </div>
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Elder Wilson</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142369780286632477.post-58619710882752960822017-12-07T14:35:00.004-08:002017-12-07T14:35:51.547-08:00<div dir="ltr">
Malo tau lava,</div>
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This past week were transfers and I am staying!!! Not gonna lie, it
was not great getting that news, but I'm going to have a good
attitude about it. I have a sweet zone and the work is progressing a little in
our Area. I'm also staying with Elder Vaisa which is a plus</div>
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Also this week:</div>
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1. We baptized Uenita this past Saturday. The
service went well and Elder Vaisa did the baptism. I also gave my very
first confirmation on Sunday. I was a little nervous while walking up to do it
because I was literally giving a part of God to someone. It was a good reminder
to me of the blessings that we get when we have the Holy Ghost.</div>
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2. About 2 months ago we taught a 15-year-old kid named Sifa the 1st lesson, gave him a Book of Mormon and exhorted him to read it. Well, after trying to find
him for the past 2 months we finally met him on the road and set up a time to
talk with him. When we met and talked about the Book of Mormon, he said that
he had read it and knew it was true. We are trying to help him
reach the waters of Baptism which would be a huge blessing if it worked
out.</div>
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3. The APs came over to our MQ the other night and invited us to go to
Liahona (church school) and ball out. Literally so fun. There were actually a
couple good players there. I've still got some of my game, though my shooting is a
little iffy jiffy. It was way fun playing basketball after a long drought. </div>
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4. We have our MLC this next week, we're going Temple tomorrow and meeting on
Friday.</div>
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5. I ate Lobster yesterday. </div>
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Love, </div>
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Elder Wilson</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142369780286632477.post-56481509403860084742017-11-29T12:03:00.003-08:002017-11-29T12:03:40.365-08:00<div dir="ltr">
Hey everybody,</div>
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It's been a good week here in the true hood of
Hofoa. This is probably going to be a very short email. Transfers were delayed one week which is good as we will finally have the blessing of
baptizing our investigator Uenita this Saturday, which will be very rewarding.
She was a very fun investigator to teach and it will be a privilege to see her
get baptized.
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The biggest thing happening on the island is the Tonga Rugby Team (mate Ma'a
Tonga). It has been doing super well and they made it to the semis of the world cup and
played against England (Elder Ludlow). They had the ball with a score of 18-20 with 10 seconds
left and scored, but the ref blew a whistle and England won. So, even though I didn't
see it, literally every house I have gone to since the game has been talking
about the call. The ref apparently was a Redcoat who had moved to Australia
so everybody thought it was rigged.</div>
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I have been reading The Book of Mormon, and I have noticed this time around that it has become a page turner. I love reading it
and learning the stories and different aspects of the Gospel. I know it's a
true book that can help all of us out. We were at the house of Lavenia (our new
convert from last transfer) and read the Book of Mormon with her. It's amazing to
see how fast she has applied the Book of Mormon into her life and how it's
helping her combat the trials and challenges she's going through. In other
words, read The Book of Mormon everybody.</div>
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I love you all,</div>
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<div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">
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Elder Wilson</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142369780286632477.post-26913545767896485402017-11-22T12:15:00.000-08:002017-11-22T12:15:29.866-08:00New Suit<div dir="ltr">
Hey fam,</div>
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This past week our stake and another stake were split into three stakes, so we had a really big conference with all three stakes and met all the new Stake Presidents and their Counselors. Our new Stake Pres. was our old 1st Counselor. Unfortunately there was no feed after.</div>
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Cool story: we were driving along and noticed some people on the side of the road having a fair (a Tongan yard sell with products from New Zealand or Australia), and
saw that they were selling suit coats. When we checked it out for
church pants (which we are now allowed to wear), we found pants and a suit coat
that was MY SIZE (insanely rare)! I asked how much the suit was and tried to pay for it
but the guy gave it to me for free, which is a very common occurrence in Tonga.
So, now I got this sick brown suit.<br />
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We had a couple discussions in English this past week and are working with a
deportis [?] named Martin right now. He's a great guy with a hard past and we
are trying to help him get rid of that and begin his new life. We've only taught
him once but he's a really humble guy and wants to join the gospel.</div>
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For Thanksgiving some things I'm grateful for are:</div>
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1. Tight golden investigators. We have continued going to our
investigator Uenita and reading the Book of Mormon with her. After we're done reading she gives profound answers on what she liked. She's good for sure for our
baptismal date on the 2nd of December.</div>
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2. Being a missionary in Tonga. This past week I was thinking about some of
the little things that bug me in Tonga and I realized that literally everything that
bugs me is because of how much love Tongans have. When they tell me to eat more
or they do small annoying things to me as a Palangi, it's because of how much love they
have for me as a representative of the Lord and a missionary in Tonga. </div>
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3. A supportive family, a blessing that too many missionaries take for granted for 18-19 years of their life then realize how big a blessing it is on
their missions. How grateful I am to know families are forever through the
gospel of Jesus Christ</div>
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4. I have a Scottie Pippen and Damian Lillard Jersey.</div>
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5. Dang, I'm not trying to sound profound or whatever, but I'm grateful for the challenges I have
had. This past week I had an experience that could have made me really mad (which it kinda did), but through the things I went through earlier on my
mission it was a easy problem to fix. </div>
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I wish you guys all a happy Thanksgiving. Hopefully we will be able to do
something here in Tonga for it. Transfers in 4 days - we shall see what happens. </div>
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Ofa atu,</div>
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Elder Wilson</div>
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Hey everybody,</div>
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It was a good week this week. Lots of crazy stuff happening.</div>
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-Baptism of Catherine -We finished teaching Catherine and baptized her. She was a fun investigator to teach and she has a super good fakafeohi family.
Her baptism was a wee bit stressful as the National Tongan Rugby team was
playing at the time of her baptism, so we had to move it back an hour to
accommodate. We were running around trying to make sure everything went to plan, but the baptism went well and I had the opportunity to do it.<div>
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-Speaking of the National Tongan Rugby team (mate ma'a Tonga) apparently
they are playing insanely good and on the day of the game everyone did the Tongan version of a parade which was everybody getting in, or on top of their cars, going to town, honking their horns and yelling. WE arrived to our fafanga [meeting ?] at the
end of the game and saw the last couple of minutes of Tonga beating New Zealand for
the first time ever. Tonga beating New Zealand in New Zealand! Right after the
game there was another pronto parade and everybody went to town again on top of their cars.</div>
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-We had two mission meetings with General Authorities - Elder Cardon and
Elder Uceda.</div>
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At his Mission Conference Elder Cardon talked
about the Holy Ghost and prayer, as well as the Abrahamic covenant. I learned a
lot about teaching prayer better at the end of the first lesson. </div>
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- Then we had a super amazing privilege today to hear from Elder Uceda from
the Presidency of the Seventy. He talked purely about prayer and it was, in my
generation's language, like"fire." Like Elder Cardon he talked about what things we
should teach and what things we shouldn't when we teach prayer. He spoke with a
lot of energy and talked about how when we pray we are experiencing a little
part of heaven. </div>
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My stake is splitting this Sunday so it's gonna be a big day. Transfers are coming up in two weeks. </div>
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Got to see The Big 4 from the MTC, Nasilai, Manu, Poulsen and me. I hope all of you have a good week.</div>
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Love you all,</div>
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Elder Wilson</div>
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It was another solid, yet kind of slow, week here in Tonga. We had the conference in Puke to change our branch into a ward. Puke has
been a branch for 32 years, so it was a pretty historic event, and huge with 500-600 people there, probably most of them for the food afterward. haha. Funny thing happened, Elder Vaisa and I were preparing the sacrament and there
definitely wasn't enough water. We had to rush and get more cups and water super fast and finish the rest of the sacrament. As we were stressing about the sacrament, the counselor in the Stake Presidency gives me a note saying the Mission President wasn't going to be there and could I step in and talk! haha. I did my normal Tongan talk - made a joke about eating dog then talked
about missionary work. The rest of the program was really good. They made the
old Branch President the new Bishop so there really weren't any big changes.
After the conference there was the biggest kai pola (feast) I have ever seen.
Unfortunately I don't have any pics.<span id="goog_1504667030"></span><br />
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In other things:<br />
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- We were at our fafanga the other day when Tonga and Samoa were
playing Rugby. We were there at the very start for the opening prayer and the
Sipitau (haka). It was crazy cool and I would invite you all to watch it if you
get the opportunity.<br />
- Uenita has given birth, we are planning to baptize her the last day of the
transfer.</div>
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- I was in Longolongo dropping something off to the missionaries when I saw a super old beat up Damian Lillard jersey on someone. I walked up and bought it off him
for 20 pa'anga. It was a very good 2-way deal.</div>
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- I have been really studying the Book of Mormon, and it is so good! I also love Alma. I invite everybody to read
it. </div>
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- We have finished up teaching Catherine and will be baptizing her this
week.</div>
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- Other than that work has been pretty slow. We've been struggling with what to do as we
have already knocked every door. But trying to stay positive and find different
ways to find people to teach.<br />
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Have a good week, </div>
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Elder Wilson<br />
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Hey fam,</div>
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It has been another quick week. This past week we were able
to have our baptism for Lavenia. It was a really good service where the Spirit
was very strong. She bore a strong testimony of the church and the doctrine
of Christ. It was a great experience for elder Vaisa and me to teach her. </div>
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We have been continuing to teach Uenita and she still has not yet given birth! We are going on 3 weeks overdue and she is still walking around the
house.</div>
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One of the best things to happen to you when you're a missionary is to go to a
member's house and have them say, "oh we have an investigator to baptize." This happened
to us this week which was super, super nice. Her name is Catherine and she is 11.
She is a little shy but she has been fun to teach and we have a
baptismal date for the 11th.</div>
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In other news, the Rubix cube has become a big thing in our district. I have
learned how to do it and got my P.R. today with a solid 1 minute and 16 seconds. </div>
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In Sunday school a man raised his hand and said that all the spirits in the
spirit prison deserve to be there because they are so annoying here on
earth.</div>
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I have been reading in Mosiah and really love reading the words of King
Benjamin.</div>
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This next week we finally have our conference to turn Puke from a branch to
a ward. It's going to be way fun, and then 2 stakes (including ours) are
splitting into 3, so we'll be having a huge conference the last Sunday of
this transfer.</div>
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Love you and I pray for you all,</div>
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It's been a good week over here in Tonga and a lot of
things have happened. I think I'll go for 1-10.</div>
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1. Atata- we went out to Atata again this past week. It was OK. After 4 trips already I'm starting to get tired out from it. We went
to the island using the tourist boat and slept the night. I went with Elder Lomu
who's on his second transfer so it was good to give him the island experience. We played soccer with all the guys on the island (surprisingly a big thing
on Atata) then we visited members. We were able to find one new
investigator and teach one lesson which was great.</div>
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2. Lavenia- Lavenia is finally going to get baptized this Saturday. It's
been good to see her testimony of the Gospel and her desire to be
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3. Uenita- definitely has not yet given birth. She will be baptized as soon as she
does, haha. Her due date was two weeks ago #Tonga.</div>
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4. Huge change to Mission Tonga. We are now able to wear Western gear instead
of the normal Tupenu and Ta'ovala. Our mission is in a little bit of an uproar
about it, but we shall see how long that lasts. I have already given all my pants
away so it doesn't really effect me.</div>
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5. We are teaching a family! The mom's name is Talafungani and it's been real
fun to get close with her 5 kids. Nobody is really progressing from that
family so we will be working together this week to try and get them
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6. I had a good spiritual experience yesterday - as we were walking from one
appointment to another, my eyes hit on this one house. We kept
walking for another 20 seconds but I couldn't take my eyes off the house, so we went
back and knocked on the door and found a potential investigator. Listen to the
Spirit.</div>
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7. I'm killing it in darts this transfer. I think my form has been getting
a lot better. I'm already up 4 on Elder Vaisa this transfer.</div>
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8. On the way back from Atata we were on the boat with a guy from
Switzerland. It was funny talking about Roger Federer. I tried sharing the
gospel with him as we got off the boat and boom he was gone. haha</div>
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9. I have been really bad about doing language study for the past while. I think
I've gotten to a point where my Tongan is alright but if I want to be good
at it I gotta start studying. We've been trying to speak Tongan all the time
and we're trying to fit in language study every day.</div>
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10. We have really high goals this transfer. President set a goal of 40 baptisms for every zone. Last transfer we had 13, so our faith and hard work are going to have to grow a lot.</div>
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Sorry for the delay, P-day got changed to Wednesday and will be the emailing day from now
on. Life has stayed the same on this side of the world. Transfers came and went this past week and we are staying here in Hofoa and Puke. I heard a rumor I was supposed to go to an outer
island but I think I'm supposed to be here. We planted a lot of seeds last
transfer that we will be able to harvest now so that will be
good. I
am actually pretty excited to see what comes out of all of our work. I also think that during this next transfer our branch in Puke is going to be
made a ward and our island of Atata will be getting a branch. So, I'm going to
be eating a lot of pig this next month or so.<br />
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We continue to teach Uenita in Hofoa, who is super prepared. I learned from our surprise MLC [Mission Leader's Conference] this past week and from General Conference that I need to be better at emphasizing the book of Mormon. We have been trying
this with Uenita and it has really helped us become better teachers. Not that we're doing anything else, but the Book of Mormon and the Holy Ghost working together is
spiritually unstoppable. We have set up a baptismal date for her the 28th of
this month, but who knows because she needs to give birth before she can be baptized.<br />
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I am short on Time. I testify of the Book of Mormon and the
blessings that come from reading it day to day.<br />
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Life is good on this side of the ocean. This
past week Elder Vaisa and I finally set up a system to go out to
Atata [the small island in his area] and we made the trip this week. The history of the Church
on this island is pretty cool and very new. Last year a couple in Hofoa (where we live) got called to move out to Atata
and start the church there. When the Stake President and the couple headed out to
Atata, the town officer was there on the beach with a knife. The Stake President happened to be a retired lawyer and made sure that everything went
smoothly with the first transition of the Church on the island. The first Sunday
there were 3 members. The Tauhi kolo (whatever that is in English [leader?]), his wife, and
his son. It stayed that way for about 3 months until another member family moved to the island. During the last year two families have been baptized
and there are now 31 members in Atata with 7 priesthood holders. It's pretty
crazy, because of how small the island is, that there are that many members. It is
really cool to be able to go out to the island and help the work out
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Other than that, we were able to find and commit a lot of people to baptism
this week. Who knows how many will work out but we will keep
trying. Every week my testimony grows stronger that missionary work needs to be
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We had Zone conference last week which went really well. I really enjoy listening to president Tui'one and his instructions on how I can become a better
missionary. General conference was probably the highlight of last week. I did the same
thing I did last time and wrote 5 questions and all were answered again, except
for 1 which I believe will be answered when I review the talks. The Book of
Mormon and the power from it was what hit me hardest. It's the one thing that is
most important to my investigators, that they have a testimony of the Book of
Mormon. It's kind of pointless to continue with the lessons if they
don't read it and pray about it.</div>
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- I am up by 5 wins against Elder Vaisa in Darts.</div>
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- Our neighbor has a person living there who is an absolutely amazing
singer.</div>
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- I played tennis this morning for the first time in a year. It was way fun.
There are people in my area who come from Eua which is know for playing tennis.
I definitely need to get back in the game though.</div>
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Ofa atu. I invite all to watch, listen, read, or reread the conference
talks, literally the best thing in the world. It's like another Christmas for missionaries. </div>
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It was another good week. I was able to see a really great miracle this past week. Two transfers ago I had
the opportunity to teach an investigator in Longolongo named Neomai.
Unfortunately she couldn't get baptized because her dad was a preacher in
another church. Three months later, after a LOT of fasting and prayer, her Dad last
week gave her permission to get baptized. To be honest I feel like one the
biggest things God has tried to teach me on my mission is that fasting works, which kind of
sounds weird but has been very true. I have been able to witness miracles
because of fasting. I can't change anybody's mind, but I know God can.</div>
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Last week we focused our efforts on finding people to teach in Hofoa and
knocked every door in Hofoa trying to find new investigators. It actually kind
of worked and we were able to find some people to teach, but though none look
super promising, we will sure try. For our zone conference tomorrow we
have been asked to teach on Chapter 9 from Preach My Gospel on finding people to teach. I'm a little confused on
how to teach this because every convert on my mission has come from a member.
For example, last week all we did was knock doors and the only 1
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Besides that, life has been going great. Elder Vaisa and I have been having darts competitions after every planning session in our house and after being
down four I have tied it up with two weeks left in the transfer. </div>
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Ofa atu, </div>
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