Sister Kenidee Sylvester TONGA NUKU' ALOFA: Falala ki he Otua!

Malo e lelei!

I first want to answer one of your questions mom. Yes it does get cold here! haha. I didn't think it was possible but man this week it was so cold. On Tuesday we woke up freezing in our MQ because they don't have windows here, they are just like glass panels so our windows are always open. It was so windy and raining like crazy. I have never seen it rain so hard before. We still went out and worked Tuesday but I'm pretty sure we were the only ones outside. Every house we went to no one was home and we would just stand outside calling for them. My comp and i love working in the rain so we were having so much fun! When it was time to go home we got a call saying we needed to stay inside because it was a cyclone storm warning. So Tuesday and Wednesday we had to stay inside because the storm was so bad. When we woke up the next day everything was flooded the roads, peoples yards. It was crazy!

The work has been kind of slow this week. I feel like we've been to every little house in our area. There is a church here in Tonga called the Weslyan church and all of their missionaries have been warning their members to not let the LDS missionaries talk to them. They said we have evil spirits with us. So when we go to their houses and call to them we can hear them inside their house saying "Shhh its the missionaries" hahah so that makes it kind of hard to talk to people. We are working with one family and i think I've mentioned them before, but her husband died and she really wants to marry a Mormon. We've visit them a lot but we have yet to teach them a lesson. We've planned like 3 FHE lessons with them but she's canceled all of them. Its been weeks of us just visiting her but we don't feel like we should drop them. We are so close getting through to them. This week we visited them and the mom has been super sick. She was sharing everything she's feeling and going through and i just felt like we needed to share a spiritual thought about faith. Next thing i know my companion was feeling the same way and asked me to share a scripture on faith. I did and we both bore our testimonies and it was just a really cool experience. When we left the house we both shared with each other how strong the prompting was for both of us from the spirit to talk about faith.

Its so important that we keep ourselves worthy enough to recognize the spirit in our lives. We might not ever get the chance to start teaching this family but because we both were in tune with the spirit we were able to hopefully plant a seed in their lives that will eventually lead them to the gospel. Anyways I hope you all had a good week! Ofa Atu!

Last P day we had a water fight in the rain!

Pictures of the rain and us working in the rain

SISTA SYLVESTER

Last P day we had a water fight in the rain!