Hi Mom!
So about the Tongan thing, this mission is considered a Tongan, Samoan, Spanish and English mission. They will call Tongan and Samoan missionaries but they are usually from the islands or are Tongan or Samoan. Then they will call a few Filipinos from the island and Hmong people every once in a while. But we aren't considered a Tagalong or Hmong mission by headquarters.
Haha love the pictures of Garrett. What a gorp. My birthday was good. We were so exhausted we ended up napping it out and it was awesome! Juneau is awesome! But I have one request. So Gma and Gpa Cervelli sent me a 200 Amazon E Card... I figured something I wanted. So you know the old fashion tape recorders? Can I get one but not old fashioned. I think they would have a new electronic one that goes to like a USB or something. But I want it to record and listen back to my Hmong. Also if (when) I go back to Hmong, I can use it to record conversations and play it back to increase my Hmong skills (: I'll forward the email to you. And use whatever is left for whatever you need. Happy Being Awesome Mom day!
Tuesday was a normal proselyting day. What what?!?! The only thing crazy going on was Tuesday and Wednesday was transfers. Since we were both staying we didn't have anything logistically for us. But since we are the zone leaders... Everyone leaving and coming into SE Alaska, we were in charge of. So Tuesday night we were going to host 2 missionaries: Elder Janes and Elder Noack. Their ferry was supposed to come in at 9pm, and it was a 9 hour ferry ride. Well.. It left late. So we didn't get them until 11pm. So we took them back to our place, did the whole talking thing and went to bed.
Well, Elder Janes had to be at the airport at 6:15am the next morning. So we got up earlier and dropped him off. We then just chilled with Elder Noack and did a little bit of studies until we had to go get Elder White and Elder Dunn. They were flying to Petersburg. They had a 4 hour layover in Juneau so we picked them up and hauled them around at 9:30 am. So us 5 just went to eat until Elder Noack had to be at the airport at Noon. Then we hung out with Elder White and Dunn until they had to be at the airport at 1:30pm. Basically that was the only administration stuff we had to do. It was only a few hours!
We taught the Tyskas some more commandments. Their baptism is in 2 weeks on the 24th, so we are taking our time with them. They are excited for the baptism. They asked their mom to make it sooner because they couldn't wait. They are fun!
We started the new member lessons with Andy. Gerrardo, his brother, is 17 and amped to go on a mission. He talks about it all the time. He is always reading Preach My Gospel in church and stuff. So we decided to help him be the teacher for the new member lessons. We went over the restoration. Andy was also playing with a Rubix cube so we did an impromptu visual lesson with the Rubix cube involving the restoration! It was pretty sweet.
Zone conference is on the 20th so we have to plan our training this week. It's a 60 minute training 😅😅 haha just kidding, all me and Elder Keys trainings always go longer then planned so we'll be fine.
We had a guy randomly show up to church yesterday. He said he was walking around and saw our church and felt like he should go. So he did. He came to sacrament meeting and saw we worshipped Christ and wanted to learn more. So we gave him a BoM and explained a little bit and invited him to learn more. Cool little miracle.
Next week is Zone conference, the week after, we go to Ketchikan. Then the week after that is MLC/Zone meeting, then the week after that is transfer calls. We are about to be packed the rest of the month. Pray for me to survive haha😅😅 also, pray for me to catch a Coho salmon finally... I should probably stick to bass fishing. But I love you all and the gospel is true. Have a good week!
Love you!
Elder Haydenious
