June 30, 2019

Male famili mo ngahi faleni! How is everyone? I hope everyone is doing great over there in the US of A, with McDonalds and Wendy's hahaha! Man, I miss those! Jokes!

I am doing good over here. Loving life and Tonga. Kolomotu'a  is good. Love the people here! There was a big giant methodist conference in our area because Kolomotu'a is where the HQ of the Methodist Church is. Thier conference isn't like ours, haha. Theirs is a week and a half, every day, all day! When I say all day, I mean ALL DAY! All they do is just have people give sermons for hours! They start at like 6:30 am and go to 11:00 pm.  They have heaps of food and heaps of people come! It finishes today, so because of this conference, work was really slow this week. Not just members of the Methodist church is there, everyone is there! They invite everyone to come, listen and eat! If there is food and lots of it, everyone in Tonga will be there! A lot of our members were there. haha

Not much has happened this week. WE helped some of the kids in our area build a little house/shack.  We went on a vilohoa with Longolongo and I played dungeons an dragons haha. It was actually preatty fun! President and Sister Tuione went home this week. That was really sad! I haven't met President and Sister Piutau yet, but I have only heard good things about them. I am really excited to meet them! I am going to miss the Tuiones very much.  They helped me a lot on my mission! We also have transfers this next week, so who knows! I might finally move from Kolomotu'a...next time you hear from me, I might be in a new area!

Till next week!

Ofa atu,
Elder Nomani

This little boy just makes me smile!

Elder Christopherson gave me his watch before going home to Wyoming!

Our pic was used on a Utah radio website!

It's been a minute...

June 24, 2019

I would just like to apologize for the lack of blog posts, LOL. Not much happening in Kolomotu'a haha. Like always...

Transfers on May 26th, had Andersen put to zone leader and transferred out. I got a new companion, Elder Parker from West Valley, Utah.

One thing you will notice is that Elder Parker loves to
take my camera and take pics of himself...irritz!

But some stuff  went down on the mission!  They did a transfer mid-way through the transfer. A lot of people got moved from Vava'u and I thought for sure that I was going to go to Vava'u. But long story short, I did not get moved. Little sad because I want to go back so badly since I was only there for 6 weeks. But I know that this is the Lord's work and if the Lord wanted me out there, He would send me out there! Also, my boy, Vaitohi from the MTC, got put to AP, so that is awesome! He took me to the dentist. It was crazy seeing him drive! LOL. It was good to see him.
Went to the dentist for the first time in Tonga and it was pretty cool. It is on the campus of Liahona High School. I thought I had a cavity, but I actually chipped off part of my back molar. haha. I think they fixed the problem...we will see!
Also, remember those chiropractors that came in December and March? They came again! It really blew their minds that I was still here hahaha! I told them I was just as shocked LOL! Since we had a Mate Ma'a Tonga game this weekend, not a lot of people showed up to the chiropractors. Mate Ma'a Tonga got smacked too. But it was sad not a lot of people came. But they still do a lot of good work for these people out here!
One of our inactives we have been working with came to church yesterday. Our convert gave her first talk also and I shed some tears, not gonna lie. It was so amazing! Her testimony was so beautiful. It was so GOOD! We are trying to find some new people to teach. It has been REALLY hard! We keep trying though.
As I was writing this, our dog, Kevin, just gave birth to 6 puppies hahaha. Everything is good here in Tonga. Still surviving and loving it!
Thank you for all the prayers a emails!
Ofa lahi atu moutolu!

Ofas eh,
Elder Nomani

HEFY group that came from Utah

Beautiful Tongan sunset

Creating my take on the CTR rings