Sister Kenidee Sylvester TONGA NUKU' ALOFA

Malo e lelei!

Im sorry I don't have a lot to say about this week. It was a good week though! Its starting to get really hot again. We went from freezing at night to waking up dripping in sweat. Haha i guess the weather here is kind of like Utah, very bipolar. Anyways on Thursday we had Zone conference, that was good! We talked a lot about the importance of repentance and why that is the one thing we are here to teach. The importance of repenting and being baptized. This week I've been studying the Plan of Salvation a lot. My testimony has grown so much just by studying this great plan that our loving Heavenly Father has prepared for us. I think once you fully understand this plan everything else is so easy to do like keeping the commandments, going to church, reading your scriptures, and much more. It's so important to do those things each day to help us progress in this life and the life after this.

This week we had a baptism. Here in Tonga lots of records go missing. Some people have been baptized a couple of times. On Thursday our Bishop called us and said he had someone for us to baptize. The parents are wanting to seal their family in the temple so they needed us to baptize him again. So we taught him and then he was able to baptized on Saturday and next month the family will be sealed! We also have a baptism next week. His name Nima. Hes 9 years old and his family just started coming back to church. His parents want to go through the temple but they need to quit smoking.So we will be working with their family to help them come back to church and get to the temple!

On Sunday we had cookies instead of bread for sacrament. That was a first! It was cool to experience that sometimes you just have to use what you have to be able to remember our Savior and his sacrifice for us.

I hope you all have a great week!

Ofa lahi atu!

-- Sista Silivesita