Moving right along

Well today is transfer day! Beginning #7! Still in te'ekiu with my son! I thought i might be district leader but i'm not. Which i'm okay with! Training is good enough for me! :) anywho! How are all y'all? I'm doin great! Things are just going right along here in tonga! Sometimes i wonder what happens to time! Goes so fast! Anyway here is what happened this past week! We taught Viliami and Lueni again lesson 2. it's funny to watch peoples faces somethimes teaching that lesson because you just see them get strange looks like what? huh? Didn't know that! But they both understood it. and they both said they would come to church sunday! Well we went to church and they were a no show. Kinda disappointing. But lueni is reading everything we ask her to from the BOM which is a good thing! In church we were sitting there and the counselor gets up and says. we'll be pleased to hear from the missionaries. Haha oh yeah? Good thing i spoke last week in a different ward so i already kinda had something i could just talk about! So yeah! And for mutual lately we've been just giving the lessons and the kids invite less actives and non members. we have taught the first three lessons. and then on saturday one of the kids that came to the mutual who isn't a member came to us and said hey can you keep teaching me? I've been taught before but i like the church and want to be baptized and serve a mission. His name is manatu. So I'll keep you updated on his progress through time. Right now that's kinda about it with investigators. Something that is kinda funny. There is an elder here named elder Uasila'a. He's from Vava'u. I was on a comp exchange with him back when i was in my like 3rd transfer and he said his dad named him viscount after a hotel in salt lake. Well i just found out a few days ago his whole name is Viscount Tosaltlakecity Uasila'a. Hahah i find that funny. Tongans come up with funny stuff. Like Mele Kalisimasi (merry christmas) haha. But anyway i think that might be all for now. Sorry kinda short! All is well though! THanks everyone for all your support and love! I miss you all! Til next time,
Elder Rose

Another transfer coming to a close

Well it's the last week of this transfer! Already been 6 weeks since i got my son! That was fast! But i already know i'm staying in this area with him cause of the new 12 week training program! So yeah! Fun fact for ya! How are you all? I hope well! I'm doin fantastic! So here is the 411 on the week! We taught the plan of salvation to the mutual kids. Some investigators were supposed to come but didn't but it was still good. Talking about the plan of salvation always brings the spirit so strong! I love it! It really is such a plan of happiness! Then thursday we taught a little family Viliami and his wife and their 3 year old. They are weslyan. They have a lot of family that are members. So we went and they are just wanting to know about our church! So we taught. I had my comp lead the lesson. He got a bit lost haha. But we were able to have the spirit there still and committed both of them to read the book of mormon. Viliami said it was a blessing for him to read it. While i testified of the book of mormon i just felt that it was so true and almost started crying. I feel like this last week was a great spiritually growing week for me. But anyway we are teaching that family again tonight. Hope it goes good! They are nice! I'm eating watermelon by the melon out here and pineapple by the apple. Ken you'd be jealous. This watermelon is so dang good! Haha it's great! The best part is is bishop just grows all this watermelon and brings us alot for free! It's great! So this lady taufa has been supposed to be getting baptized forever and says she wants to but always has excused. Hopefully we can figure out how to help her better and let her desire to get baptized overpower the excuses! Ken happy birthday and tyden congrats on your baptism! I bet it was great! I really wish i could have been there! I heard that was really special and he was just the happiest little guy ever! That's awesome! i'll get home right in time for brookies baptism! So i've really been reading the book of mormon alot in tongan. Trying to finish it before the end of the year and just finishing alma. I decided if we are reading the book of mormon or scriptures daily we always have something to talk about. I serve in a branch, 25 people. On fast sunday the president asks everyone to testify and if they want to give a talk that's great to fill the time haha. Anyway i got up and gave like a 10 minute talk out of nowhere just on what i read in the book of mormon the day before. About moroni doing all his preparations in alma 48 and how we can take that as we need to really prepare ourselves to stand against satan and how we can all become like moroni because verse 17 in that chapter is so strong. You should read it! But yeah. I've really enjoyed the book of mormon lately. It's been great! I'm getting alot from it! Read it twice before but still getting so much from it! So challenge to you all. Read the Book of Mormon. Just like i testified to the family. You WILL feel it is true. I promise you will. Because it is true. And we can learn so much from it! It has so many answers to so many things and it is just one truely amazing book. Read it and I promise you'll feel it's true. Read Galations 5:22-23 and tell me that that is not what you feel when you read it. Something i have enjoyed lately also is spiritual music. It just has made me feel happy and just brings a spirit into the house. So you guys should play some spiritual music every once in awhile! It's nice and relaxing and enjoyable! Today we had a good district meeting with the AP's and ZL's from another zone. I just want to say i know this work is the most important work ever! I love it. I know it can bring happiness into peoples lives. If you lack happiness, search the gospel and you will find it. There is comfort for everyone that seeks it in the gospel of jesus christ that was restored through joseph smith. I know christ lives and died for us. We are able to live again and not feel guilty for the things we do wrong because of his infinite atoning sacrifice that no one else could do to save the world in the most literal sense. I love him and i love my living heavenly father who knows and cares about me and is trying to help me through this life even if it means i suffer some, it's only to prepare me for what is to come. I love you all family and friends and miss you! Have a wonderful week! 
Elder Rose

Hey everyone how are you all? I hope well! Everything is good here! Happy halloween you are all probably trick or treating right now! haha I forgot it was halloween really! So live it up! I don't celebrate it here haha. Well fun facts for the week! We went to talk to an investigator that former missionaries taught that wanted to be baptized and it's been awhile but we went there and she still wanted to be baptized. Her name is taufa. So go there and said she wants her interview the next day and baptize on saturday! That was good for us! So the next day we go to do her interview and she said she's busy and needs to think about it and will tell us next wednesday! Kinda stunk. She's already been interviewed twice before but yeah. Hopefully we can get her to finally really commit! We also did like an open house thing and there was alot of people there. 2 weren't baptized. Basically taught lesson one and committed both of them to baptism! The first time i actually extended the invitation! It was good! So we just need to teach them again and set their date! Oh happy belate birthday isaac and happy birthday to kendra and good luck tyden with your baptism! oh, yesterday well i guess today for you, halloween, is day 300 for me! Well think that's all. SOrry it's short! This computer is slow and i feel bad for makin my comp wait! I know this is the true gospel and it was restored to earth. I know Jesus Christ died for us all to be forgiven and cleansed and become clean so we may live with heavenly father once again. I now they both are living. I know that the work i'm doing is of God and so important. I know that i'm here to prepare the way for the second coming of our lord and savior jesus christ. What a glorious day it will be. May be all be prepared and strive our best to keep the commandments of God. I love and miss you all!
Love,
Elder Rose