Sister Kenidee Sylvester TONGA NUKU' ALOFA: " It's not about you"

Man this week was so good! Im finally adjusting to everything the work is so great and I am really starting to feel like Tonga is my home! I just want to thank everyone for the sweet emails and all of your prayers. I can definitely feel them. So thank you!

This week, with one of the wards we work with, we held an open house at the church. Me and my companion worked with the ward mission leaders in the ward and we planned the whole thing. The topic of the open house was the plan of salvation. We had all of the return missionaries in the ward each teach about a topic about the plan of salvation. Like the pre earth life, Earth life, Spirit world, and all of the kingdoms. My companion and I taught about the Celestial kingdom. So on Tuesday we went around with all of the missionaries in our area and we passed out invitations inviting members, investigators, and less actives. Wednesday was the open house. We all started in the chapel and after the first speaker the members stayed in the chapel to watch the restoration and all of the investigators and less actives went to a new room to listen to another speaker. We had 6 different rooms they moved to and ours was the last. While they were in each room they were given a piece of paper to write down any questions or concerns they had with that topic. After we all met back in the chapel to have a closing prayer and song. It was such a cool experience and very powerful! It was also very helpful because we got a lot of new potential investigators and we are able to teach to meet their needs and concerns from what they wrote on the piece of paper.

I titled my email "its not about you" becasue thats something I constantly remind myself. Theres an EFY song called "Its not about you" and me and my companion listen and sing it everyday haha. We always look at each other and say "Hey! remember its not about you." There was one day that it was rainy here and all of our teachings fell through. We could have gone home so we didnt have to walk in the rain but we looked at each other and started singing that song and we went and visited the members. Nothing great happened that night but the spirit that we felt walking around visiting people and sharing a message with them was awesome! Even though it was raining we worked hard. We are here on the Lords errand and the Lords time.

Anyways it was a really good week! This week I learned that Heavenly Father always gives us a promise when he knows something is going to make us doubt. When you doubt yourself or doubt your faith take a step back and look at the promise or promises that are in store for you and it will give you a change of heart and mind. I love it here in Tonga! I hope you all have a great week.

Ofa Atu!

SISTA SYLVESTER

I think its full!

This is the grocery store in our area :) We dont have an oven, stove or microwave so we don't really cook. The members just bring us food every day!